Ancestry/Fold3 : All UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges, 1715-1925

Hello Everyone,

I came across a new database on Ancestry.com that I think might be of some benefit for a few Lardner families: All UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Admissions and Discharges, 1715-1925.  The files themselves are housed on a non-Ancestry.com associated website, so if you do not have an Ancestry account you can pay for access to see the records on Fold3.com instead.

Please note, I'm only including pertinent facts, not the entirety of what can be found the records.  In addition, I am also only listing those entries that specifically reference County Clare. If you know your Clare relatives name and regiment, you may be able to find their service information in the registers.  There are several Lardners (and variations of the name) listed, but not all entries provide a place of birth.

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"Examination of Invalid Soldiers on Monday the 2nd June 1788"
J[oh]n Lardner of the 44th Foot Reg't, Age 46 (abt 1742), Served: 12, Where born: Drumclift, Clare, Occupation: Tanner

"His Majesty's XLIVth Regiment of Foot whereof Lieut. Gen. Charles Rainsford is Colonel"
Military discharge of John Lardiner, of the 44th Foot in Capt. Edward Dunnces Company, born in Drumclift, Clair, Occupation: Tanner, Aged 43, Served faithfully for 12 years.

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"Examination of Invalid Soldiers on Wednesday the 3rd of Febr[uar]y 1747/48"
W[illia]m Lardner of the 28th Reg't Bragg's, Age 46 (abt 1701), Served 23, disabled by lone sickness & kapture, Where born: Innis, Clare, Occupation: Wool comb'

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"Examination of Invalid Soldiers on 8th September 1874"
Michael Lardner of the 18th Foot, Private, Age 38 (abt 1836), Served: 21 (1 yr 7mo Crimea, 8yr 4mo, India, 9yr 1mo Malta), earned 1 badge, Where born: Kilofin, Kildysart, Clare, Occupation: Labourer, 6ft 10in tall, brown eyes, brown hair.

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Until Next Time,
Jessica

Lardner Name in Twelve Roman Catholic Parishes in County Clare

Hello Everyone,

At this point I thought I would give everybody an idea where I am with locating Lardner families in the Roman Catholic records available on the NLI website. 

So far, I have been able to look at the records for twelve RC parishes: Knockera, Kilfiddane, Kildysart, Kilkee, Killard, Carrigaholt, Kilmacduane, Kilmihil, Killone, Kilmurry McMahon, Kilchrist, and St. Senan's.*

In the above image you will find that the parishes marked in yellow have a general count of individual Lardner couples/families have been found.  For those parishes in red, I was unable to locate any Lardner references in the available records for the said areas.

Please be aware, this count is not definitive proof that additional couples/families did not exist in the area. The availability of the records for certain time periods effects information presented on this blog as does the inevitability of human error.  

I have created the below .gif in order to display both the record availability for the various parishes under consideration and the presence or lack thereof of the Lardner name from 1827 to 1883.

In this image, parishes in white indicate that there were no records available from the NLI collection for the time period listed in the upper left-hand corner of the .gif. If the parish is grey in color, records are available but a subsequent search did not find any Lardners.  Finally, there are those parishes in yellow which have both the availability of records and the presence of the family name.

I intend to in detail each parish and their family groups/couples found in the NLI's parish records in future posts, but for now I hope you've enjoyed this current update.

Please let me know if you have any questions, concerns or comments.

Until Later,
Jessica

*NB: For the parish of Kilmihil I utilized the available name index for the area instead of going through the entire parish records entry by entry.

New Lardner Pages (Some with connections to pre-existing pages)!

Hello Everyone,

I've added a couple of new pages:

• Family of Michael Lardner and Mary Hoare **Kildysart Parish, Ireland**
• Family of Thady Lardner/Larner and Jane Ginnane **Kildysart Parish, Ireland**
• Family of Thomas Lardner and Bridget Corbett **Kilrush, Monmore, Reha, Clarefield, Carnanes, Ireland**
• Family of William Lardner and Catherine (Kitty) Machlin **Derra, Monmore, Kilrush, Ireland**

Of these four, it appears that William Lardner and Catherine Machlin are the probable parents of one of the new couples mentioned above and at least two of the other Lardners that I have pages for
already:

• John Lardner and Mary Wolf
• Thomas Lardner and Bridget Corbett **NEW**
• Anne Lardner and John Lynch 

I've added the corresponding parent/child links on each of the respective pages.

All the Best,
Jessica