Hello all, my name is Bernie Willoughby, living in SE London.
I wonder if anyone can help with a query about my Great Grandfather. I have only just confirmed - from his son's birth certificate - that he, Sergeant Thomas Kelly (968) died in Barracks at Ashton-under-Lyne on 9 July 1890 aged 34. Unfortunately the copy of his death certificate (from pneumonia) gave no detail of his family as only military staff (Major Leeke MRCS certified and H J H Backhouse (?) was the informant.
Thomas Kelly was a Sergeant (aged 25) with the Battalion in Malta in 1882 when he married my Great Grandmother Filomena, a Maltese girl. My Nan and an elder sister were born in India (Agra and Mooltan respectively) and their son, Thomas, was born in Malta five months after Sgt. Thomas Kelly's death.
I have tried the Manchester Regiment Museum archives at Tameside without success and the National Archives and recently wrote to an address in Ardwick Green which was provided some years ago in a kind response from Captain Bonner who was at the time working in the Museum of the Regiment.
Sorry to go on but can anybody point me in the right direction to find some information? Thanks.
