Mockler family
The Mockler family is a twig in my research. I wonder if the more ancient family ever owned a home, GrangeMockler?
I have Thomas Mockler * 1829 Grangemockler, Tipperary, Ireland + 25-9-1899 at home, Nine Mile House, Mullinahone, County Tipperary, Ireland; Army Pensioner (70y){Reg Callan Entry 51 p 292 signed by s-i-l James Moher} x Ann Welch * 1833 + 9-6-1905 Warrington, England (72y){Reg WarringtonJun ¼ 1905 Vol 8c p 136}
Thomas Mockler attested for 59th Regiment in Liverpool on 10 May 1849 aged 20. Served 4 years 7 months in Hong
Kong and 1 year 11 months in Cape Town.
son . Thomas Mockler * 1849 Cashel Tipperary, Ireland + x Annastasia Fanning 26-11-1877 Roman Catholic Chapel,
Templemore, County Tipperary, Ireland by J O'Connor; he Musketry Instructor 103rd Regiment of Mullingar s/o
Thomas Mockler Army man; she of Templemore d/o Thomas Fanning Farmer. Witnesses: Mich'l Casey & Catherine
McCombie {Reg Thurles Entry 144 p 479} + 20-8-1890 Tramore, Waterford Tipperary, Ireland i Grangemockler
Tipperary, Ireland Thomas Mockler enlisted as Boy Soldier in 103rd Regiment at Colchester aged 14 years 10 months on 2 November 1863
son John Mockler (Jack) * 3-8-1858 Hong Kong, China + 20-12-1944
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa (86y){NAB MSCE Ref 135/1945 (No
135/45/799) pr/sp Louisa 1944 - 1945} x Louisa Stewart 8-2-1893
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa {GRO Index Army Marriages Entry 261 p
12. 1893} * if 1870 to 1875 London, Middlesex {Reg m née _} + 2-8-1939 at
home, 314 Greyling Street, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa (69y){NAB
MSCE Ref 743/1945 (743/45/502) 1939 - 1945} i Mountain Rise Cemetery,
Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa {Entry 612}
John Mockler Telegraph Clerk’s 1st application to enlist rejected as under
height requirement; 20y 3m * 1863 Hong Kong, China 5ft 3 7/8in; hazel eyes; black hair; Roman Catholic; when
declared fit to enlist, 3 March 1883 in Warrington as No 877 (later 15476) Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire) Regiment; Promoted Corporal 27 October 1885; Transferred to Army Staff 7 Dec 1886; to South Africa 26 June 1884 to 22-10-1894; home 23-10-1894 to 22-12-1899; to South Africa 23-12-1899 to 15-11-1902; home 16-11-1902; Staff Sergeant Major John Mockler Head Clerk in Dublin when (retired) discharged to pension as beyond 21 years service permitted under Regulations, 30-12-1904 after 22 years 14 days as it had been extended until 16 March 1905; wife Louisa Stewart
x 8-2-1893 Pmb, with husband. [[Kathleen Brenda Mockler * 24-12-1893; John Robert Mockler * 11-7-1896; William
Mockler * 6-7-1898 + 3-8-1899; Eileen Mockler * 12-4-1900]]
Awarded Medals for Long service & Good Conduct & SA 99-02 Queen's Clasps; the King’s South Africa Medal and
Clasp granted 1st October 1902, issued 14-9-1903 for service during 1901 and 1902 - as No 15476 in “D” Supply
Company Army Depot, Army Service Corps; then finally to Warrington, to serve out his term of service. Retired from
active service 16 March when he returned to Pietermaritzburg, Natal to settle with his family
Louisa Stewart of 35 Boulton Road, Portsea, St Bartholomew's, Landport, Hampshire 16y * ca1875 London d/o Robert
Stewart Military Staff Clerk, Head Quarters Staff 37y * ca1854 Rochester, Kent x Annie wife 36y * ca1855 London & sister Brenda M Stewart 1y * ca1890 Portsmouth, Hampshire {1891 census}
Louise Mockler housewife, head of family of 117 New Lodge Road, Dock Ward, County Antrim, Ireland x 26y * ca1875
England able to read and write; she signed Louisa [[Cathleen Mockler scholar able to read and write 7y * ca1894
South Africa; John Mockler scholar able to read 4y * ca1897 Belfast, Ireland; Eileen Mockler 9m * ca1900 Belfast]] &
her sister Brenda Stuart scholar 11y * ca1890 England {1901 Irish census}
. Kathleen Brenda Mockler * 24-12-1893 Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa + 27-6-1935 Pietermaritzburg, Natal,
South Africa x Herman Charles August Randelhoff _-8-1913 St Mary's, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa with
parent's consent, after Banns by R Langouet witnesses: _ W A Randelhoff & Rose Randelhoff {Reg} * Natal, South
Africa + 1964 Natal, South Africa {NAB MSCE Ref 2157/1964 s/sp Jessie born Gower pr/sp Katherine [Sic!] died 1932. 1964 - 1965}