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Descendants of Andrew Michael CreaghAndrew Michael Creagh,
born 2 Oct 1842 Bombay 1,
India ; died 3 Aug 1910 1 Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South
Africa, youngest son of Lieut.-General (James?) Creagh ; married
Dec. Qtr. 1874 (V. 2c, p. 249) reg. Winchester, Hampshire, England,
Edith Raymond, born June
Qtr. 1850 Sutton, Surrey, England, reg. Epsom, bapt. 11 Sep
1850 2,
parish of Sutton, Surrey ; died 28 Aug 1930, buried 30 Aug 1930
Anglican Division F Row 3, Plot 90, Waikumate Cemetery, New Zealand
(reg. #1930-2383), aged 80, daughter
of William Chapman Raymond
(1813-1873) and Eliza North.
Andrew Michael Creagh was listed in the civil parish of Alverstoke in Hampshire at the 1881 England census, aged 38, with the occupation of Captain in the 42nd Regiment, with wife Edith aged 31 and three children aged 1 to 5 years, and the household employed three persons of whom one was a governess. Prior to the 1874 marriage wife Edith was listed in the census from 1851 to 1871 in the household of her father William Chapman Raymond with birth place given as Sutton, Surrey. At the 1891 census the Andrew Creagh household was located in the civil parish of Bromley in Kent with Andrew listed as a retired army Colonel aged 48. It comprised the same family members as in 1881 and again there were three employees of whom one was the governess employed 10 years earlier. That Andrew's father was a Lieutenant General in the army is derived from Andrew's 1910 obituary. When his father died on 1 Aug 1875 he was the Colonel of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment of Foot. Surviving him were wife Maria and two other sons James and Michael who with her were executors of his will and in retirement respectively held the ranks of Colonel and Lieutenant Colonel, and one daughter named Maria last noted in the 1891 census aged 50 listed as unmarried 4. The quarter of a century British Army career of Andrew Michael Creagh was spent with the 42nd Royal Highlanders (Black Watch) regiment. He was first noted on 20 Dec 1861 with the rank of Ensign appointed an Instructor of Musketry. Hart's quarterly published New Army List for July 1865 gave his then position in the 42nd regiment as Instructor of Musketry and rank as Lieutenant dating from 3 Dec 1865 and, at publication date his period of service as 5 years indicating he would have first joined the 42nd regiment as an Ensign in 1860. During his army career he spent 10 years in India and was stationed at Malta from 1874 to 1878 where the first two of his three children were born. When he retired effective 22 Nov 1884 he was a Major and held the position of Deputy Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant-Colonel 5. Before the family emigrated to New Zealand he was one of eight company directors and officers prosecuted at the Old Bailey Central Criminal Court on 10 Dec 1888 on a charge of criminal libel. Leaving no doubt as to his identity is that he was named in the lengthy trial record as Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Michael Creagh. Together with three of the other defendants he was a director of London printing and publishing company Judd and Co. Limited that had six major shareholders. Judd & Co. had printed on behalf of the Constitutional Newspaper Company Limited a newspaper named St. Stephen's Review that the prosecution alleged contained several falsehoods concerning an induvidual described at the trial as a political activist and ultra-Gladstonian. Whilst the secretary of Judd & Co. was acquited on the basis he was just a servant of the directors, the company's four directors and three similarly indicted directors of the newspaper company were found guilty by the jury. In delivering judgement the jury stated they did not consider the case ought to have been brought to the Court. Emigration to New ZealandAnglo-Boer War ServiceIn recruiting for the Scottish Horse he had the full support of the Victorian Minister for Defence Mr. McCulloch. On 31 Dec 1900 the Sydney Morning Herald reported the Minister thought - "an effort should be made to comply with the request of the Marquis of Tullibardine for the services of 150 Scotsmen". In respect of the recruitment Boer War related web sites usually quote the Marquis as believing the Caledonian Society of Melbourne, to whom he had written seeking its support for the recruitment, had enthusiastically responded and was responsible for the recruitment of the 250. However the fact was quite the opposite. Obviously unknown to the Marquis heavyweight opposition to the recruitment came from Malcolm M'eacharn the influential president of the approx. 800 member Caledonian Society of Melbourne who had been knighted in 1900 and served as Melbourne's Mayor for three years from 1896-1899. When he went public in the Melbourne press with his opposition to the recruitment, suggesting there was no certainty the volunteers would be paid or would not be just carrying out police duties etc., he mentioned Colonel Creagh had called upon him personally seeking his support. The result was that if it had not been for the availability for service of 125 men, who had qualified for the Sixth Victorian Contingent but were balloted out in the final ballot, the outspoken opposition of the Caledonian Society of Melbourne president would have caused Andrew's recruiting effort to fail to reach the numbers sought. In respect of the Scottish Horse recruits departing for South Africa on 31 Jan 1901 The Argus newspaper reported - "It is considered probable that Colonel Creagh, who has had so much to do with enrolling the troops, will accompany them to South Africa" 6. Left - on right Capt. A. M. Creagh seated beside Major the Marquis of Tullibardine Cape Town March 1901 Right - Major Creagh of the "Scottish Horse" 1902 7 In company with the 5th Contingent of Victorian Volunteers the Scottish Horse recruits departed Melbourne for Cape Town on 15 Feb 1901 on the Orient where they arrived on 8 March accompanied as foreshadowed by Andrew Creagh who was then 58 years old - an age that must surely rank him as, if not the oldest, then one of the oldest persons appointed to officer rank in a British or a South African irregular regiment during the Anglo-Boer war. In Cape Town the Victorian recruits joined the 2nd regiment of the Scottish Horse in which the day after arrival in Cape Town Andrew was appointed a Captain. In its' Cape Town held pictures collection the National Library of South Africa holds a photograph of the regiment marching out of Cape Town on 20 March 1901 to join the front 8. In official despatches and, in a letter written by one of the Victorian recruits from the war front in June 1901, it was recorded Andrew Creagh was lightly wounded in the first serious skirmish the 2nd regiment had with the Boer forces that took place at Roodekrantz farm, Krugersdorp, in Transvaal Colony on 30 April and 1 May 1901 9. Shortly after this engagement the commander of the Scottish Horse Major the Marquis of Tullibardine, in a letter written from Middleburg to the Caledonian Society in London under whose auspices the English members of the corps were raised, commented - "The Australians are the best set of calvary I have seen out here yet." After the wounding Andrew must have returned almost immediately to New Zealand on leave to recuperate as six weeks later with wife Edith and their two youngest children he was present at the afore mentioned reception for the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York held on 11 June 1901 at Government House in New Zealand. The Anglo-Boer war formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Vereeniging on 31 May 1902. The Scottish Horse nominal roll has Andrew's date of enlistment as 9 March 1901 and date of removal from the roll as 28 August 1902. His entry in the medal roll for the Scottish Horse held by the Public Records Office in England in WO100/269 has his rank as Captain and is annotated to the effect that the medal for which he was elligible, that would have been the Queen's South Africa medal (QSA), was returned by his widow and the rank altered to 'Major'. No doubt that would not have happened unless Edith was able to present written evidence of his appointment to that rank before the Scottish Horse was disbanded. The record has his date of discharge as 7 July 1902 - the same as that for the regiment's commander Major the Marquis of Tullibardine. 10. At the end of the war, no doubt in recognition of his service and organising ability, he almost immediately must have been appointed to a military or government post in South Africa for which it seems likely a furnished residence was provided as advertisments for the 1 Aug 1902 auction of his New Zealand residence at Ellerslie mentioned he had taken up the offer of a "permanent appointment" in South Africa and, upon the sale of the property his wife was to join him there, and the purchaser could also acquire the furniture etc. at a cheap price 3. His 1910 NZ newspaper obituary cast no further light on this initial appointment other than to state - "After seeing the war to a close, he was engaged on administrative work in connection with the retirement of the British forces" 1. An online index to documents held by the South African National Archives Repository (NASA), in "Public Records of the former Transvaal Province and its predecessors" (TAB), lists about 35 items of correspondence to and from Major Creagh that from the subject headings suggest for a period he may have been in command of the Transvaal Mounted Police for which there is also a separate series in TAB . One document in the former series dated the year before he died had as subject - "Employment Lieutenant-Colonel A. M. Creagh". His Scottish Horse nominal roll end of service date suggests the initial post war appointment in South Africa was possibly as a senior officer in the Scottish Horse Volunteer Corps that it was reported in June 1902 was being formed in Johannesburg by the Marquis of Tullibardine and for which the War Office provided 500 horses and equipment 11. Now the war was over the purpose of the new Corps was the protection of the country in the event of a Kaffir rising or other contingency. It bore the same name as the war-time Scottish Horse regiment and was not disbanded until 1907. A special correspondent for the Morning Post, who visted South Africa for 8 months from December 1902, wrote in 1903 of this volunteer corps that - "The many Scots in Johannesburg are exceedingly proud of their Scottish Horse Volunteer Corps whose headquarters are in this city. This fine corps is the re-establishment as a Volunteer regiment of the splendid Scottish Horse which was raised by the Marquis of Tullibardine at the suggestion of the Caledonian Society of Johannesburg ... The Transvaal will soon possess a formidable little army of loyal British seasoned in war". The Scottish Horse and the other post-war similarly established volunteer corps were comprised mainly of officers and men who served during the war in the irregular South African regiments with the same names 12. If wife Edith did join Andrew in South Africa after the 1 Aug 1902 auction of their Ellerslie residence she must by 1906 have returned to New Zealand at least for a period as she was listed in the 1905/06 NZ electoral roll with daughter Edith residing in Auckland East, then after Andrew's death from 1911 to 1919 at Eden in Auckland, and lastly at Roskill in Auckland in 1928 two years before her death . The only listing of Andrew in the NZ rolls was with Edith at Manukau in 1897. It was ironical that when Andrew died in 1910 it was at Krugersdorf where he was wounded in 1901 during the Anglo-Boer War. Children of Edith Raymond and Andrew Michael Creagh were: SECOND
GENERATION
1. Michael Raymond Creagh, b. ca. 1875 Malta - British subject (age given as 5 and 15 respectively in 1881 & 1891 census); d. 24 Mar 1958 (reg. #1958-D024064) Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, buried Toowong Cemetery; m. April 1902 (reg. ##1902-1220), at St. Saviour's Church, Pirongia, New Zealand, Everlyn Jane Prentice (DIV 1930) 13, b. ca. 1871 Wairoa, NZ 40; d. aged 74, 1945 (reg. #1945-17336) New Zealand, buried Waikaraka Cemetery, daughter of Stephen Felgate Prentice and Hannah Down. Her sister Caroline Frederica was from at least 1916 Michael's defacto and died 7 Aug 1964 (reg. #1964-B067652) Auchenflower, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; buried Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane. Michael, who was likely known by his second given name of Raymond, was a registered surveyor when he married in 1902. It is said he and his wife divorced in 1930 40. The first mention noted of him in Australia was in a letter he wrote to Rockhampon Council in Queensland published on 1 Nov 1923 in the Rockhampton Morning Bulletin. It detailed many achievemnets during a period of 4 years and 9 months he was the Council's Engineer (i.e. from the latter months of 1919). In the same newspaper on March 22 of the following year his name appeared in a list of thirty persons who nominated to fill eleven vacancies on the Rockhampton City Council at an election to be held the following month. In the Commonwealth electoral roll for 1924 he and his legal wife Evelyn's 10 years younger sister Caroline Frederica were listed residing in Sheridan St. in Cairns in the electorate of Herbert with her surname given as Creagh and his occupation as City Engineer. They remained there until the 1936 electotal roll when they were listed residing at "Hollywood" in River St. in the Brisbane suburb of Auchenflower with his occupation given as engineer. By the 1954 roll their address in Auchenflower had changed to 365 Coronation Drive and his occupation was given as surveyor.2. Edith Raymond Creagh, b. 1877 Malta, baptised 1877 Malta 14 Malta - British subject (aged 3 and 13 respectively in the 1881 & 1891 census). No marriage to 1933, or a spinster death to 1963 when she would have been aged 86, is indexed in NZ. In the 1905-06 NZ rolls Edith and her mother were listed residing together in Auckland in Auckland East and from 1911 to 1919 at Eden in Auckland. In the 1928 roll they were at Roskill in Auckland. Edith's mother died in August 1930 and thereafter she was not noted in the NZ electoral rolls.3. Ivon Raymond Creagh, born June Qtr. 1879 Hythe, Kent, England (reg. v.2a, p.952) Elham, Kent; died 14 Feb 1960 New Zealand, aged 81, (reg. #1960-32339), buried 16 Feb 1960 Anglican Division F Row 3, Plot 90 Waikumate Cemetery; married 17 Jul 1912, Auckland, New Zealand (reg. #1912-6079), Alice Ellen Stribley, b. ca. 1880 ; died 26 Sep 1957 New Zealand, aged 78, (reg. #1957-28711), buried Waikumate Cemetery. At the time of compilation in 2011, because of the 100 year non-disclosure rule, any children births after the 1912 marriage could not be ascertained from the index. None were noted residing with them in the 1935 and 1936 electoral roll when at Willerton Rd. in New Lyn in Auckland Suburbs when Ivon's occupation was given as a fitter. The Waikumate Cemetery index gave his first given name as Ivan, occupation at time of death as Engineer, and he was buried in the plot as his mother Edith. THIRD
GENERATION
4. Tui Andrew Creagh, b. 1903 (#1903-1573) New Zealand; d. 18 Aug 1904 New Zealand. The New Zealand Herald of 31 August 1904 had notice of his death on 18 August aged 12 months, and same paper on 24 August a notice of thanks from Mr & Mrs Raymond (sic) Creagh for help and messages of sympathy. 5. Lyn Toi Creagh, b. 1905 (#1905-9182) New Zealand. 6. Quentin Raymond Creagh, b. 1908 (#1908-792) New Zealand. The Auckland Star of 18 Jul 1945 had a notice of the birth of a son to wife Ina at Glamis, Mount Albert when their address was Epsom. 7. Freda May Creagh, b. 30 May 1916 (reg. #1958-009429) Queensland, Australia. She was listed from 1937 to 1949 in Queensland electoral rolls residing in Brisbane in the Toowong sub-division of the Ryan electorate. SOURCES: 1 UK National Archives, WO 76/423/9 Records of Officers Services - born 2 October 1842, Bombay, India. Bombay also given as birth place in the 1881 and 1891 England & Wales census. Obituary - New Zealand Herald of 11 October 1910 (also Auckland Star and Ormaru Mail): "The many friends of Lieut.-Colonel Creagh will regret to hear of his death at Krugersdorf, Transvaal, on 3 August at the age of 67. Colonel Creagh after retiring after long and distinquished service in the "Black Watch" (late 42nd Highlanders), including active service in Ashantee, West Coast of Africa, came to New Zealand, but on the outbreak of the Boer war, he enrolled and took over the Australian contingent of Scottish Horse. After seeing the war to a close, he was engaged on administrative work in connection with the retirement of the British forces. Col. Creagh was the yougest son of Lieut.-General Creagh. He is survived by his widow, two sons and a daughter, at present in Auckland. 2 Ancestry.com online database - in 2011 titled: London, England, Births And Baptisms, 1813-1906 3 Auckland Star - AUCTIONS - Wednesday 28 March 1894 --- Live and Dead Stock - at Meadow Bank Farm, near St. John's College. The undersigned have received instructions from Colonel Creagh, who is retiring from the milk business, to sell, at Meadow Bank Farm, without reserve. - The whole of his live and dead stock consisting of: 50 cows in full milk and in calf, 25 young cattle, 2 bulls, 2 horses, dray, spring cart, etc. 2 stacks of meadow hay, about 30 tons Alexandra Milk Separating Machine, new Dairy Utensils, Farm implements etc. etc. Luncheon provided - Hunter & Nolan. Auckland Star 19 July 1902, Page 8 - AUCTIONS - Friday 1st August 1902 at 12 noon sharp - Ellerslie Family Residence - 12 rooms and offices and 15 acres volcanic land - For Imperitive Sale! Under instructions from Mrs. Colonel Creagh, who is leaving for South Africa to join Colonel Creagh, he having accepted a permanent appointment there, Mr J. Thornes will sell by auction at his Land Sale Rooms, 91, Queen-street, THAT MOST DESIRABLE AND WELL-BUILT FAMILY RESIDENCE, now in occupation of Mrs Colonel Creagh, comprising 12 rooms, besides bathroom, linen press, dairy, laundry, and other offices; also stabling, cowbails, workshop, buggyhouse, and every requiste outbuilding. The water supply is never-failing, concrete cistern of 20,000 gallons, doubly filtered; drainage of the very best; patent W.C.'s; force pump, and every modern convieience. The grounds are nearly 15 acres in extent, and comprise lawn, garden, orchard of choice trees, and paddocks very rich in feed and nearly clear of stone; about three-quarters of a mile from Ellerslie Station, and 'buses pass the door; splendid train service, 16 trains each way per day; cheap prices; loverly views from veranda and balcony on two sides of house and from flat roof. Remember - this property must be absolutely sold. The instructions are imperative. J. Thornes 91 Queen Street N.B. - The Furniture, etc. can also be secured by the Purchaser at a cheap price. 4 The Morning Post (London) 5 Aug 1875 - DEATHS - CREAGH - On the 1st inst., at his residence, St. Stephen's-road, Westbourne-park, Lieutenant General James Creagh, colonel 34th Regiment. Note: according to the 1871 and 1881 census the residence was at 16 St. Stephen's Road. The Times - 4th August 1875, page 5. - NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE The Coloneley of the 34th (Cumberland) Regiment is vacant by the death, on Sunday last, of Lieut.-Gen James Creagh. The General obtained his first commission as an Ensign on the 1st January 1810, and formerely served in the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment. He obtained the rank of lieutenant on the 4th March, 1812 ; captain, 17 April, 1825 ; major, June 28, 1838; lieut.-colonel, November 11, 1851 ; colonel, November 28, 1854 ; major-general, August 26, 1865 ; and lieut.-general, January 25, 1874. He was appointed colonel of the 34th regiment in October last year. Lieut.-General James Creagh's official death registration gave his age as 82 calculating to a ca 1793 birth year. According to the above quoted military obituary he initially gained officer rank as an Ensign in the 86th (Royal County Down) Regiment of Foot on 1 Jan 1810 suggesting the 82 years at death was likely correct - i. e. that he was born between 2 Aug 1792 and 1 Aug 1793 and was aged 16 when he obtained that rank on 1 Jan 1810 and a birth year of ca 1796 calculated from 64 years given at the 1861 census and 74 at the 1871 census is less likely to be correct. The UK National Archives holds a document of potential Creagh family genealogiocal interest dated 1882 titled - "FOREIGN OFFICE: General Creagh's widow's case for a civil list pension" (record T 1/14056). Whether as speculated James was Andrew's father could be ascertained from his father's name and occupation in the 1874 official marriage registration record (Dec. Qtr. 1874 V. 2c, p. 249). Supporting he was likely his father is that James Creagh named his first born son James and he was in Bombay as a Major with the 86th regiment when Andrew was born there in Oct 1842. Also supporting is a report of an 1874 High Court Case brought by the widow of Dudley Raymond, who was a brother of Andrew's wife Edith, against the Executor of her father William C Raymond's will under which Edith who the same year married Andrew was a beneficary. The report described her in error as being - "now the wife of James Creagh". Seemingly her father-in-law was named as her husband instead of his son Andrew. The names of most if not all James Creagh's surviving children could be ascertained from his 20 August 1875 probated will. In addition to a daughter Maria (1841-?), who was listed in his 16, St. Stephen's Road household at the 1871 census and again at that address in 1881, listed in the wills and probate index as executors were two sons also of 16, St Stephen's Road, Westbourne-park - viz. James (ca 1835-1914) then a Major in the 17th regiment of foot and John (ca 1837-?) then a Major in the 5th Northumberland Fusiliers regiment both of whom in retirement were Colonels listed in the Army List for 1890 as retired. The 1871 census gave the birth place of then Major General James Creagh and his wife Maria (1805-1886) as Ireland. Daughter Maria was also born there. She was unmarried at the 1881 and 1891 census and thereafter was not noted in the 1901 or 1911 England census or the England death and marriage indexes. According to his 1881 census entry James Jr. was born ca. 1835 in the Hasler Militray Hospital near Gosport in Hampshire and basis the 1881 census his brother John was born ca. 1837 in Ireland. At the 1871 census the St. Stephen's Road household included a ca. 1842 born in Canada daughter-in-law of James Sr. named Annie G. (sic) Creagh who would have been Annie Young Tobin, a daughter of John Michael Tobin and Catherine Maxwell, who married James Jr. in 1867 and whose death at age 62 (calculating to a 1838 birth year) was registered at Kensington in 1901. James Jr. died in 1914 and his 1911 census entry noted the duration of the marriage had been 34 years (i.e. he married in 186 7) and there had been NO CHILDREN born of the marriage. In respect of son John his 1881 census entry listed him as an unmarried 44 year old born in Ireland and Major in the 2nd Battalion of the 17th regiment. The last mention noted of him in any record was in a report in The Times of 26 Sep 1890 that Lieut.-Colonel J. Creagh had attended a dinner held in London on the 33rd anniverary of the relief of the besieged garrison of Lucknow attended by officers representing the survivors of the relief, the "original garrison", and the force stationed at Alumbagh. This reference was to John as his older brother James was in the 86th regiment until 1860 and that regiment was not at the Siege of Lucknow. John was promoted from Second Lieutenant to Lieutenant in 1856. He was listed in the 1894 published book "Memoirs of the Mutiny" as having retired as a Lieut.-Colonel and as one of 16 officers of the 5th (Northumberland) Fusiliers who had formed a portion of Havelock's Column that entered Lucknow on 25 Sept 1857. In that historically famed action, that at the time so much gripped the attention of British public, a specific mention to him was - that upon "Finding a large body of Sepoys in a walled garden adjoining that in which the guns were placed, Lieutenant J. Creagh got together a little party of his men, and, rushing upon the rebels, the Fifth almost destroyed them. During the subsequent siege this garden was held as an advanced post." In the 1881 census year his retirement from the army was gazetted in July and the grant of the honorary rank of Lieut.-Colonel in August. Thereafter he was not noted in the England census from 1891 to 1911 or in the England death and marriage indexes suggesting he likely emigrated not long after the September 1890 Lucknow dinner when he would have been aged 53. (Note: - as he was unmarried at the 1881 census he was not the John Creagh b. ca 1837 at Fermory, Cork, Ireland who was listed in the 1891 to 1911 census at "The Limes" in Hanwell in the Division of Brentford with wife Rebecca who in error was named in the 1901 census as Rosina C. According to the 1911 census they married in 1875 and the 1891 census listed their first child George as having been born in 1877. The 86th regiment went to Ireland in 1837. It left Ireland from Cork for Bombay in India in April 1842 where Andrew Michael, whose obituary said he was the youngest son of Lieut.-General Creagh, was born on 2 October 1842. The commander of the 86th from 1832 to January 1842 was Lieut.-Colonel Sir Michael Creagh K. H. who was knighted in 1832. However he did not take the regiment to India in 1842 where it remained until 1859 as on 7 January 1842 he exchanged positions with Lieut.-Colonel Bartholomew Vigors Derinzy of the 11th Regiment of Foot who was in command of the 86th when it arrived at Bombay in about June that year. In 1810 when James Creagh was prompted to Ensign rank in the 86th the regiment's 22 years later commander to be Sir Michael was a Lieutenant in the regiment. As he did not marry until 1823 he was not the father of Lieut.- General James Creagh but may well have been an Irish relative. His 1860 newpaper death notice stated at death he was a Major-General and Colonel of the 73rd Regiment and the son of the late John Creagh of Limerick, Ireland. The Times of 22 April 1852 mentioned Colonel Derinzy had returned to London from India on promotion and the 1 May 1852 issue recorded his replacement there as commander of the 86th as - "Beveret Lieut.-Col. James Creagh to be Lieut.-Col., without purchase, vice Derinzy". The 86th regiment participated in the 1857-1859 Indian Mutiny and at its outbreak was headquartered in Bombay. After its return to England from India in August 1859 it remained there for only about a year before in Sept. 1860 returning again to Ireland where it was then stationed until October 1864 when it went to Gibraltar. In 1881 under the Childers reforms it was amalgamated with the 83rd to form The Royal Irish Rifles with the 86th forming the 2nd battalion. From 1921 that regiment was renamed The Royal Ulster Rifles. 5 The London Gazette 28 Jan 1862. 42nd Foot, Ensign Andrew Michael Creagh to be Instructor of Musketry, vice Lieutenant E. A. Elgin, deceased. Dated 20th December, 1861. The Edinburgh Gazette 7 Mar 1865. 42d Foot—Ensign Andrew Michael Creagh to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Henry Jennings Bramly, who retires. Dated 3rd March 1865. Samuel George Hulse, gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Creagh. Dated 3rd March 1865. The London Gazette 24 June 1873. 42nd Foot, Lieutenant Andrew Michael Creagh to be Captain, vice J. Wilson, retired. The London Gazette 21 Nov 1884. The Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), Major Andrew Michael Creagh retires on retired pay, with the honorary rank of 'Lieutenant-Colonel'. Dated 22nd November, 1884. The London Gazette 10 Mar 1885. Captain George Fenton, the Duke of Cambridge's Own (Middlesex Regiment), to be a Deputy Assistant-Adjutant and Quartermaster-General, vice Major Andrew Michael Creagh, the Black Watch (Royal Highlanders), placed on the Retired List. Dated 25th February, 1885. 6 The Argus (Melbourne) 30 Jan 1901. ED. NOTE: The 1901 applications to serve in the 2nd Scottish Horse regiment recorded by Victorian Dept. of Defence are held in Canberra in the ACT by the National Archives of Australia in five alphabetically arranged boxes (in 2014 the archives collection reference was A6394, NN). The applications contain signed pledges to accept imperial discipline and make no claims on the Victorian Government. The only personal information recorded on the applications is the applicant's marital status. 7 Left photo - portion of a photo from 'The Veldt' (Vol 2, #4 - April 1901) of 21 officers of the Victorian contingent of 2nd Scottish Horse regiment captioned "Officers of the Australian Regiment of Scottish Horse" taken at Green Point Camp prior to the departure of the contingent from Cape Town for the front on 20 March 1901. Digital copy of the full photograph in an original issue of the news magazine provided courtesy of Geoff Kerton of Melbourne, Australia. Right photo is from a mounted original held by the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town in its Cape Town Pictures Collection - inscribed "Major Creagh Sc. H.". Copy provided courtesy of the Library. 8 Main catalogue The National Library of South Africa at: http://www.nlsa.ac.za 9 See: http://www.bwm.org.au/site/Scottish_Horse.asp 10 Entry on Scottish Horse medal roll advised Sep. 2011 by Meurig Jones, ABWMV Research Services, and, The Register of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 at www.casus-belli.co.uk. 11 The Times 30 June 1902 - - The Marqis of Tullibardine, who raised a corps of mounted troops, known as the Scottish Horse, during the war, is now engaged in forming a corps of Scottish volunteers in Johannesburg. The War Office are providing their horses and equipment. 12 E. F. Knight, South Africa after the war : a narrative of recent travel, (Longmans, Green, and Co., 1903), pp. 205-208. In 2011 the URL of the Anglo-Boer War Scottish Horse regiment nominal roll, as transcribed by Dr. Stephen Skinner, was: http://www.britishmedals.us/files/127scothorse.htm Other reference sources for the Scottish Horse are: Major G. Tylden, The armed forces of South Africa 1659-1954 : with an appendix on the commandos - under the heading "Scottish Horse 1901-1907". This indexed book is held in Australia only by the War Memorial Library, State Library of Victoria and Uni. of Western Australia library. It has not been sighted by compiler. It is said to contain a potted history of the war-time South African Scottish Horse regiment and same named post Anglo-Boer war successor - the June 1902 formed in the Transvaal, Scottish Horse Volunteer Corps. John E. Price, Southern Cross Scots : the Australian and New Zealand participation in the Marquis of Tullibardine's Scottish Horse during the South African War of 1899-1902. Book held by nine libraries in Australia of which 4 are in the ACT and 4 in Victoria. It is apparently not indexed. The War Memorial catalogue lists a boxed holding of papers of Captain A. C. Murray of Victoria, that include a scrapbook containing photographs taken during operations of the Scottish Horse, letters from the Marquis of Tullibardine, and a nominal roll of the Scottish Horse enroute to London. The main catalogue of the National Library of South Africa lists as held at Cape Town in the Pictures Collection an undated photograph on glass of the Scottish Horse led by a pipe band marching into Cape Town from the camp when departing for the front (Record No. b1323245) 13 Prentice Family Genealogy - in 2011 the URL was: http://www.iroots.net/news/99/stephen_prentice_ipswich_england_rewrite.htm 14 Malta Family History - http://website.lineone.net/~remosliema/regiments2.htm - the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment arrived at Malta from Portsmouth and Queenstown on 27th Nov 1874 on board the Himalaya. An index of Baptisms by Army chaplains there 1800 to 1900 listed - CREAGH, Edith Raymond 1877 (42nd Regiment). |