Pembroke Family

Dear David, this is a VERY quick reply as I am just about to take a week off. The main reason an Irishman would end up in India is because he joined the british Army or was a merchant seaman. My knowledge of these records is limited to the fact that British Army records are extensive and that if your ancestor was in the army, you should be able to access a great deal of information about him. Do let us know how you get on.

You probably have this link already

http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/search.jsp?namefm=&namel=Pembroke&exact=&name2fm=&name2l=&location=&dd=&mm=&yy=&diocese=KERRY+(RC)&parish=¢ury=&decade=&sort=&pageSize=100&ddB=&mmB=&yyB=&ddM=&mmM=&yyM=&ddD=&mmD=&yyD=&locationB=&locationM=&locationD=&member0=&member1=&member2=&member3=&member4=&member5=&member6=&member7=&member8=&member9=&namef0=&namef1=&namef2=&namef3=&namef4=&namef5=&namef6=&namef7=&namef8=&namef9=&namel0=&namel1=&namel2=&namel3=&namel4=&namel5=&namel6=&namel7=&namel8=&namel9=&keyword=&submit=Search

Good luck

Martine

Hi David

I have just started researching the Pembroke tree for a friend of mine.  Have you had any luck finding any information on the East India Company Corp that Thomas belonged to.  There is certainly lots of information on him after he arrived in Australia but not much before.I think his parents were Michael Pembroke and Ellen Cogan and he was born  9 Mar 1795.

thank you

Maree

The following information has been obtained from a Certificate of Freedom (issued to convicts at the end of their term) for Thomas Pembroke:

Details 
Name Thomas Pembroke
Vessel "St. Michael"
Year Arrived 1819
Where Convicted Madras
When Convicted 7 October 1818
Term Seven years
Native Place Co Kerry
Calling Linen Draper
Age Twenty Nine
Height 5 feet 7 inches
Complexion Ruddy
Hair Brown
Eyes Hazel
Date of Certificate 18 October 1825

Extract from an E Mail from the British Library (India Records) relating to East India Company Corps.
"Thomas Pembroke, Matross, Horse Artillery, aged 20 from Ireland who arrived
in India on the ship Surrey in 1814. [ Madras Muster Rolls 1817: L / MIL /
11 / 126 ]. " Matross" is described as being an inferior class of soldier in
the Artillery, the word coming from the German "matrose" or sailor. Even at
this period in time it was seen as almost obsolete. [ Hobson - Jobson - A
Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases. OIH 427.954].

The Register of Artillery Recruits for 1814 gives the following information:

Ship - Surrey
Name - Thos. Mcl. Pembroke
Age - 18
Height - 5 ft 6 ins
Visage - Long
Hair - Brown
Eyes - Blue
Complexion - Fresh
Parish - Tralee, County - Co. Kerry, Kingdom - Ireland
By whom enlisted - Captain Grange
Paid and Received - 18 December 1813
Attested - 9 August 1813
Service - Unlimited
Occupation - Clerk
Embarked - 23 April 1814
Destination - Madras
[ Register of Recruits - Artillery 1811 - 1819 : L / MIL / 9 / 29]

I also tried to find if there was any indication as to why he had been sent
to Australia, but unfortunately could find nothing in the Madras Muster
Rolls in the Casualty Lists for 1818 - 1819. However I did look at the
Embarkation Lists, which gives information by the ship on which the troops
travelled out to India. I found the "Surrey" for 1814, and it give much the
same information as is given above in the Recruitment Register, but at the
end there was a short note, which read " Transported Jany. 1819" [
Embarkation Lists 1810 - 1816 : L / MIL / 9 / 98 ].

I am sorry I was unable to find the reason for his transportation, but trust
that the above information proves of assistance to your research."

Thomas was granted 50 acres of land at Even, now known as Castlereagh in NSW (Near Penrith)

Woodford - In the Blue Mountains
Thomas Michael Pembroke of Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland, arrived as a convict aboard the "St. Michael" in 1818 aged 22. By 1831, he had been given a grant of land at Twenty Mile Hollow. This site included William James's squat. That year, Pembroke employed fencers, splitters and stonemasons to erect an inn which was largely complete by 1833. In 1839 this 'for sale' advertisement appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald "50 acres, 20 cleared, well-built stone and wood house, inn known as 'Sign of the Woodman', licensed, comprising 9 excellent rooms, stabling for 6 horses, store, stock and sheepyards etc. with productive garden and overflowing spring of water" (SMH 14/6/1839, Mitchell). He sold the property to a Michael Hogan of Penrith for £450.
The earliest parts of Woodford Academy (as it became known in 1907) -- those fronting the highway -- remain largely in original condition and, although there is evidence of alterations, the plan form is typical of an 1830's inn.

Reference Number: 2686 Name: Thomas Michael PEMBROKE <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carlprowse&id…; Sex: M Change Date: 06 APR 2008 Birth: ABT 1796 in Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland Note: Thomas Michael was the son of an Irish merchant Michael Pembroke who died the year he was born. <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carlprowse&id…; <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carlprowse&id…; Death: 09 JUN 1840 in Benevolent Society, Corner of George and Devonshire Streets, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Note: Thomas was a patient at the Benevolent Society <http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=carlprowse&id…; Burial: 18 JUN 1840 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Note:
Michael was presumably buried at the nearby cemetery which is now the site of Sydney Central Railway Station.

What a wonderful lot of information about Michael Pemroke.   I come from Tralee, and there is a street there called Pembroke Street.  I wonder if it was called after Michael Pemrboke Sr., as he was a merchant, according to the above report.

Geraldine