Born in Islington, London, c.1830.
Enlisted at Hounslow on the 8th of March 1849.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 7".
Trade: Carpenter.
Discharged, "by claim", from Manchester on the 4th of March 1861.
Served 12 years.
Conduct and character: "very good". In possession of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
1861 Census
12, Elizabeth Terrace, Islington.
[RM: The 1861 Census shows him living in the household of his widowed mother Sarah Brown aged 62. He was aged 30, a Carpenter married to Mary Ann aged 18 and born at Warwick. His brother Frederick, aged 18, a French Polisher is also shown.]
1871 Census
12, Northampton Grove, Finsbury, London.
The 1871 Census shows him aged 41, a Carpenter. He was married (wife not shown) and living in the house of James Hancock, his brother-in-law.
1871 Census
13, Mildmay Grove, Islington.
By 1881 he was still with this part of his family, but at 13, Mildmay Grove, Islington. Occupation "retired carpenter".
1891 Census
29, St Paul's Place, Islington.
That of 1891 shows him as "living on own means" aged 63 [sic]. He was in the household of a William Harman.
He is shown in the GRO registers as dying in the Islington district in the December quarter of 1892 aged 62.