Individual Details
The Hon Edward Sydney Plunkett
(1817 - 9 Oct 1875)
Lieutenant the Honorable Edward Sydney Plunkett was the youngest son of Lord Louth (Leith)?
Major Hon. Edward Sydney Plunkett was the fifth and youngest son of Thomas Oliver Plunkett, 11th Baron Louth of Louth Hall in co. Louth, Ireland. He served in the 95th Derbyshire Infantry Regiment 1836-1860, including the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny during 1850s receiving medals in both campaigns. He retired by the sale of his commission on 30th November 1860 and his wife, the Hon Caroline Mary Plunkett, died ayear later. I don't know why they had taken themselves off to a troubled area in South Africa (except I believe the 95th Regiment had been their previously) or how she died. Incidentally, the publication the 'Ceylon Government Calendar' recorded that they married on 1 April1845!
I (Anthony Plunkett) also have a copy of the birth certificate of Charles Seale, their middle son (my great grandfather) which shows his birth registered on 11 March 1850 by Caroline Mary Plunkett resident at The Vicarage, Blackawton in Devon
THE 95TH REGIMENT IN CEYLON
Transcript from
The Regimental Annual of The Sherwood Foresters
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
1914
Edited by Colonel H. C. Wylly, C.B
The only domestic event recorded this year is the marriage on April 1st 1845 ? one wonders whether the bride or the bridegroom selected this date ? at Kandy, of Lieut. Hon. E. S. Plunkett, 95th Regiment, to Caroline Mary, third daughter of the late G. Templer, Esq.
About Plunkett the Ceylon Literary Register of a considerably later date reminds its readers that "Fred, poor fellow, once had a series of charges preferred against him, which led to his being tried by a court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman: the greatest of these charges was 'calling for a glass of wine in an hotel and leaving the house without paying for the liquor.' It is needless to saythat he was honourably acquitted, and that he afterwards did good service in the Crimea and in India. Peace be to the ashes of old Fred Plunkett." ("Fred" must have been something of a pet name, his initials being "E. S.")
Major Hon. Edward Sydney Plunkett was the fifth and youngest son of Thomas Oliver Plunkett, 11th Baron Louth of Louth Hall in co. Louth, Ireland. He served in the 95th Derbyshire Infantry Regiment 1836-1860, including the Crimean War and Indian Mutiny during 1850s receiving medals in both campaigns. He retired by the sale of his commission on 30th November 1860 and his wife, the Hon Caroline Mary Plunkett, died ayear later. I don't know why they had taken themselves off to a troubled area in South Africa (except I believe the 95th Regiment had been their previously) or how she died. Incidentally, the publication the 'Ceylon Government Calendar' recorded that they married on 1 April1845!
I (Anthony Plunkett) also have a copy of the birth certificate of Charles Seale, their middle son (my great grandfather) which shows his birth registered on 11 March 1850 by Caroline Mary Plunkett resident at The Vicarage, Blackawton in Devon
THE 95TH REGIMENT IN CEYLON
Transcript from
The Regimental Annual of The Sherwood Foresters
Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire Regiment
1914
Edited by Colonel H. C. Wylly, C.B
The only domestic event recorded this year is the marriage on April 1st 1845 ? one wonders whether the bride or the bridegroom selected this date ? at Kandy, of Lieut. Hon. E. S. Plunkett, 95th Regiment, to Caroline Mary, third daughter of the late G. Templer, Esq.
About Plunkett the Ceylon Literary Register of a considerably later date reminds its readers that "Fred, poor fellow, once had a series of charges preferred against him, which led to his being tried by a court-martial for conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman: the greatest of these charges was 'calling for a glass of wine in an hotel and leaving the house without paying for the liquor.' It is needless to saythat he was honourably acquitted, and that he afterwards did good service in the Crimea and in India. Peace be to the ashes of old Fred Plunkett." ("Fred" must have been something of a pet name, his initials being "E. S.")
Events
| Birth | 1817 | County Louth, Louth, Ireland | |||
| Marriage | 1 Apr 1845 | Kandy, Central, Ceylon - Caroline Mary Templer | |||
| Residence | 1851 | Age: 44; RelationToHead: Husband - Ryde, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Marriage | 23 Feb 1865 | Monkstown, Dublin, Ireland - Sophia Augusta Litton | |||
| Death | 9 Oct 1875 | Rathdown, Ireland | |||
| Military | Lieutenant 95th Foot | ||||
| Military service | Unsure |
Families
| Spouse | Caroline Mary Templer (1824 - 1861) |
| Child | Henry Edward "Harry" Plunkett (1848 - 1906) |
| Child | Charles Seale Plunkett (1850 - 1879) |
| Child | Sydney Plunkett (1856 - 1874) |
| Spouse | Sophia Augusta Litton (1821 - 1877) |
| Father | Thomas Oliver Plunkett 11th Lord Louth (1757 - 1831) |
| Mother | Margaret (Plunkett) ( - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas Oliver Plunkett 12th Baron Louth (1809 - 1849) |
| Sibling | Randall Matthew Plunkett (1810 - 1833) |
| Sibling | Charles Dawson Plunkett (1813 - 1886) |
| Sibling | Henry Luke Plunkett (1815 - 1853) |
| Sibling | Anna Margaret Plunkett (1818 - 1824) |