Any 1830's military records?

Kyle,

Google: Military - Garrison Town Sligo which will give you details of the Military 1700 - 1800 in Sligo.

The file is too large to post.

Regards,

You say...............

But my other clue is that my Collins' registered religion in Ontario was "Church of England" AND I have very little Irish DNA, which suggests my William Collins was a Welshman or Englishman temporarily stationed in Sligo in the 1830's.

As Ireland was part of Great Britain, it was the Church of England, it changed to the Church of Ireland later.

Yes, but that means they were not Catholic. I assume most natives of Sligo were Catholic and the protestants were immigrants.

It is Drimbane, Achrony, Sligo. A Michael is listed in 1827, also he is listed in Crimlin, Achrony and a Thomas in Maylough, Achrony.

Achrony is also the name of the Diocese you will have a bit of a problem identifying a birth area.

This is a death record of a Mary Collins in Drumbane (Drimbane must have changed the spelling) Andrew Collins was present at the death, worth checking to see if you can find his birth.

4629939.pdf

Did your William Collins live in Peel, Ontario at any time?

@Margot Thank you. Numerous unrelated Catholic Collins there. I have noticed they tend to use the same Catholic names like Michael, Peter, Mary, Andrew. None of my Collins were ever named those. Instead I have William, Thomas, Elizabeth, James, George, Robert, Margaret, Jane...

Brothers William and Thomas Collins and their families moved to Dundas, Ontario. I wrote a fun little story about them:

A Collins' Tale

@McCoy I tried searching and could not find any soldier rolls or rosters, but I did come across this interesting resource:

"Hidden Histories: Political/Historical Perspectives of Sligo" It has this passage:

"Edward Cooper, who owned Markree Castle, had a shooting lodge in the mountain in the 1600s above Dromore West. He was a cornet, the lowest rung of commissioned cavalry officers in the British army. When the Cromwellian wars ended and the Crown restored, there was no money to pay the soldiers who fought. The soldiers were given small holdings of land in Ireland as payment instead of cash. Cooper was in Coote’s regiment (Welsh) and most of the soldiers received land in this area. The soldiers were not anxious to come to Ireland at the time. Cooper then bought their shares of land cheaply and made an estate, first in Limerick, and then bought plots in Sligo from the soldiers he knew in Coote’s regiment."

So of course, my Collins might have lived there for generations, and simply never married local Irish.

I think the only place now is PRONI....... Public Records of Northern Ireland. all non Catholic records are help there.

Was it Williamsburg Dundas where they lived? If it was William states Methodist.

I have a screenshot of the 1851 Census in my "Collin's Tale" . It says "C. England"

Oh, well. No records for William Collins in Sligo on PRONI...

@Elwyn In that first pdf link, I saw a Dromard Killala Sligo listing with baptism dates back to 1829. I thought maybe Dromard is what the daughter heard.

I have had no luck with RootsIreland.ie, so I searched elsewhere and see LDS has the original images - 2,182 of them un-indexed! lol. Needs the AI treatment.

I do have specific birthdates for some of their 7 children born there...