{"id":23924,"date":"2013-01-03T15:56:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T21:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=23924"},"modified":"2013-01-03T15:56:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T21:56:49","slug":"records-of-pensioners-of-british-army-by-the-royal-hospital-kilmainham-digitized-and-posted-by-findmypast-ie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=23924","title":{"rendered":"Records of Pensioners of British Army by the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham Digitized and Posted by findmypast.ie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicklowpeople.ie\/news\/wicklow-soldiers-papers-part-of-digitised-archive-3341300.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Hugh-Burkes-discharge-225pw.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Hugh Burke&#039;s discharge\" width=\"225\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-23926\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following is a teaser from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicklowpeople.ie\/news\/wicklow-soldiers-papers-part-of-digitised-archive-3341300.html\">an article<\/a> in the the December 26, 2012 edition of WicklowPeople.ie. It&#8217;s interesting in that it features a British soldier wounded in the Battle of New Orleans &#8211; a battle that actually occurred after the offical end of the War of 1812 between the United States and Britain.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>THE RECORDS of a Wicklow soldier, Private Hugh Burke, one of the so-called &#8216;Green Redcoats&#8217;, have been published online for the first time by leading family history site findmypast.ie.<\/p>\n<p>These records are part of a major collection of newly digitised records of those pensioned from the British army by the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham.<\/p>\n<p>The records contain the names and discharge documents of almost 20,000 soldiers held at the Royal Hospital Kilmainham from 1783 to 1822. The task of cataloguing the records took a team of 14 people from the Friends of The National Archives volunteer group just over three years and includes the records of 19,109 soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>Among them is Private Hugh Burke from Wicklow, who was pensioned from the army on the 26 June 1816 after four years&#8217; service. He was deemed unfit for further service after receiving &#8216;a gunshot wound to the left shoulder received in action near New Orleans in America on the 8th of January 1815&#8217;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wicklowpeople.ie\/news\/wicklow-soldiers-papers-part-of-digitised-archive-3341300.html\">Read the full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following is a teaser from an article in the the December 26, 2012 edition of WicklowPeople.ie. It&#8217;s interesting in that it features a British soldier wounded in the Battle of New Orleans &#8211; a battle that actually occurred after <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=23924\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Records of Pensioners of British Army by the Royal Hospital, Kilmainham Digitized and Posted by findmypast.ie<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,434,44,249],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-british-records","category-findmypast-ie","category-internet-genealogical-research","category-war-of-1812"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23924"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23929,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23924\/revisions\/23929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}