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Extracted list of the 245 Non Commissioned Officers, Trumpeters or Drummers & Privates of His Majesty’s 2nd Battalion, 59th Regiment of Foot, drowned at Tramore and Kinsale on 30 January 1816


Only a very few of the names of the enlisted men who were lost were reported in the newspapers. Also there are no supporting pension records. The 267 enlisted men of the 59th Regiment recorded as having died on 30 January 1816 in the Regimental Pay Book from 24 January 1816 to 24 March 1816 are named as follows:

Sergeant Major James Watson  
Quartermaster Sergeant James Robinson
Paymaster’s Clerk John McManus
Amourer as Sergeant William Hill
                                                                                                          

4 Colour Sergeants                       
John Brotherton
John Frazer
Thomas Mullender
Robert Murry

Drum Major Thomas Kelsey

10 Sergeants                                   
John Barber  
Alexander Beddie
Sampson Fielding
William Gordon
William Hawson
Stewart Hetherington
John Lewis
James Murphy
George McCormick
George Shipston                                                                                                                                   

14 Corporals                                     
William Cullen                                                
Dunn Michael
John Hanlon
Laurence Howard
Thomas Kew
Joseph Leam
Jacob Lodge
James McDougale
Thomas McGuirk
James Murphy
William Sissions
William Spink
Stuthard James
William Windsor

15 Drummers and Fifers                   
William Alexander
Richard Ball
William Fitt
William Ganley
James Haughney
William Humphries
Alexander Knox
Francis Taylor
Cunage Tench
John Thompson
Joseph Toms
John Townsend  
William Watts
William West
John McCarthy

197 Privates      
Edward Atkinson
William Atkinson
Stephen Baker
John Baker
Samuel Booth
Peter Bradshaw
Thomas Brailey
George Brennan
John Bryan
Thomas Bridge
George Brown
Joseph Buckhannon
John Burke
George Burrows
John Byrne
Thomas Byrne
William Cahall
Thomas Caulfield
Martin Cassidy
John Castles
David Caines
James Chambers
John Chisholm
James Clews
Benjamin Clifton
Joseph Clough
Thomas Collins
John Conlon
James Connolly
Michael Corcoran 1st
Edward Covington
Owen Coyle
Samuel Cowper
Richard Croft
Edward Cunningham
James Cunningham
Robert Curry
Michael Curtin
Arthur Danger
Robert Davis
William Delfield
Martin Devitt
Peter Dillon
Joseph Dixon
John Debal
Thomas Debal
Martin Dolan
Michael Downey
Simon Doyle
Peter Dunn
John Emms
Patrick Fallon
Eustice Finn
Edward Fitzgerald
Thomas Fitzgerald
Edward Flanaghan
William Flanaghan
Richard Forrestal
Christian Gaghagan
John Geehan
William Good 
Patrick Gormley
Joseph Grey
John Gready
John Hamilton 1st
James Handley
Patrick Hanly
William Hardy
John Hewetson 
William Haydon
David Heffernan
Stephen Hendry
Thomas Hickin
James Higgins
Elias Hobbs
Richard Home
Robert Hopewell
John Hopkinson
William Hopkins
Robert Hore
David Horner
Stephen Hulse
David Hurley
Wilford Jackson
George Jeffard
Richard Jeffard
Richard Jones
William Keatley
James Kelly 2nd
Owen Kelly
John Keough 1st
John Kershaw
William Kirswell
John Kilday
John Kirby 2nd
James Kyle
John Lacey
John Lawless
Henry Loggan
William Loggan
Cornelius Loomey
Arthur Loughlan
John McCabe
James McCord
John McGilvery
Michael McKenna
Bernard McLennon
Edward McLennon
Hugh McLennon
Hugh McVey
James Mack
James Mackle 
Mark Mallon
Martin Malone
Patrick Malone    Saved but died a short while later.
William Malone 1st
William Malone 2nd
Thomas Marriott
James Marshall
Joseph Marshall
Robert Martin
Thomas Mathews
Mathews William
Richard May
George Mooney    Lost on the Lord Melville
William Moore
Robert Moreland 
Henry Morgan
John Morris
Hugh Mullholland
James Mumley
Michael Murry
Nicholas Murry
William Needham
Richard Newton
Daniel O’Brien
Robert O’Brien
Hugh O’Hara
James Olive
Michael Owen
William Page
William Pearson
Bedford Peate
John Peary
William Pugmore
William Quinn
Edward Radcliff
Joseph Raymore
Thomas Ready
John Rice
Arthur Richardson
Richard Robinson
Thomas Rogers
William Roston
Thomas Russell
James Rutledge
Patrick Ryan
Thady Scanlon
James Sedgbear
James Sheridan
John Sims
Small Samuel
John Smith 2nd
John Smith 3rd  
Robert Spittle
John Sullivan
William Sullivan
George Summers
Joseph Sutton
William Swann
Michael Sweeney
Owen Sweeney
Samuel Smithard 
James Talbot
Joseph Taylor
Henry Thorne
Lawrence Tierney
William Till
John Tone
Michael Toole
John Travers
Henry Turner
William Turner
Robert Varney
James Walsh
John Wheatley       Lost on the Lord Melville
John Whitney
John Willis
James Wise
Mathew Wise
Edward Woodward
Edward Woodthorp
Thomas Emmis
John Giles
William Jervis
Patrick Makim
Thomas Robinson  


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