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Source for: Robert Devlin Smyth, 18 DEC 1820 - 23 MAY 1894
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Name source: S1Name source: S567Page: Email dated 8NOV2008, subject Robert Devlin Smyth from Cheryl McKell Frome
Text: I am currently researching Robert Devlin Smyth line. I have information I am willing to share. Robert Smyth line is researched back to 1200 on lds.org. Which I submitted in 1990. But I am currently researching and writing a family history.I have a copy of his marriage certicate to Mary Jane Mackey. I can not find his first wife Sarah Robinson infro. I have information on his military discharge paper. I am trying to find correct infro on his children that died in India. Lds.org has several death location for first child which died in India while in military service. After he was released from military service he travels to America onthe ship Marshfield with Mary Jane and 2 children. He crosses the plains to the Utah Territory.
I am trying to find the individual that might have inherited Viola Bidgoods copy of Robert Devlin Smyth family history in his own handwriting and his family bible. I believe she is the individual who died at 102 in 2002. She is related to Robert through Nora Smyth.
I am trying to find the individual who inherited Robert Devlin Smyth military watch after Lawrence Evans died in 1971. He also has his military discharge papers the orginal. I would like photographs of them. There are interesting facts on these paper I will share with you.
Mary Jane Mackey life story is like a novel. It was one of my favorite story as a child I liked. She travels to India and China with her father Edward Mackey while in English military service. Her mother dies in India with her siblings. Her father is discharged and traveling home to England dies at sea. She is raised by her aunt and uncle in the Castle Cormin who are caretakers. She marrys Robert and goes back to India with him. Her child dies there.
Robert and her come to America on Ship Marshfield. Crossing the plain her one year old Joseph dies in an accident. There lives are interesting.
I have details on many events but I am looking for more before I write. I am willing to share. Please share anything you have with me.
_MIL S560Page: Smyth, Robert Discharge from 62nd Regiment of Foot as Color Sergeant
Text: Robert Devlin Smyth: Robert's original discharge papers from the 62md Regiment of Foot on 2nd February 1854.
The Papers belong to Kenneth Hampton Guinn and his sister Debby. They were passed down from Martha Smyth - Robert's Daughter. https://familysearch.org/photos/images/10036085
Page: Smyth, Robert - Original Discharge Paper information
Text: Written- 11 September 2014
Robert's discharge papers from the 62nd Regiment of Foot. His papers State that he was born in the Parish of Desertcreat in the county of Tyrone. He enlisted in Cookstown for the 6th Dragoons a foot at the age of 18 years.
He was discharged on February 2nd 1854 after serving for 14 years 345 days for the British Military. Military Ranks: Corporal (4 years and 145 days), Sergeant (6 years and 307 days) and discharged as (Color Sergeant). He was in the East Indies for one year and 260 days. In the East Indies, he fought in the Battle of Aliwah (28 Jan 1846) and the Battle of Sorbroan (10 Feb 1846) against the Sikhs. it states his conduct was good. These paper were passed through his daughter Martha Smyth to Kenneth Hampton Guinn and his sister Beverly. Thanks for sharing. https://familysearch.org/photos/stories/10039222
Page: Chelsea Pensioner's Records - Smyth, Robert
Text: ROBERT DEVLIN SMYTH: COPY OF UNITED KINGDOM, CHELSEA PENSION RECORDS, 1760-1913. IMAGE 1031. FOR THE 62nd REGIMENT OF FOOT. https://familysearch.org/photos/documents/11023963
Event source: S560Page: Robert Devlin and Mary Jane Smith: Ship Log for "Marshfield".Children: Alfred 3 and Joseph H. 1 3/4 Baggage: 2 Boxes, 3 Bags, 1 Barrel.
https://familysearch.org/photos/images/11602252
Page: Ship "Marshfield" (1854): from Liverpool 8 April 1854 to New Orleans 29 May 1854: Robert Smith Family: list laddress and financial facts.
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Death source: S560Page: Obituary - Smyth, Robert Devlin 1894
Text: Robert Smyth
Died on the 23rd of May at the age of 73 years and 5 months. Deceased was born in the county of Tyrone, Ireland, on the 18th day of December, 1820; was the son of Alexander and Jane Smyth; joined the British Army in 1839; served 15 years ; and retired from the Army on the 2nd of February 1854; arrived in Salt Lake City in 1855; was ordained as an Elder in Dublin in 1852; ordained as a High Priest in 1891, and served as a Teacher in the 19th and 22nd Wards for 39 years. https://familysearch.org/photos/documents/18608528
_MIL S560Page: Chelsea Pensioner's Records - Smyth, Robert
Text: ROBERT DEVLIN SMYTH: COPY OF UNITED KINGDOM, CHELSEA PENSION RECORDS, 1760-1913. IMAGE 1031. FOR THE 62nd REGIMENT OF FOOT. https://familysearch.org/photos/documents/11023963