William Henry Jones

Notes:

William Henry Jones enlisted in the army on the 7/12/1816, at the age of 18. This was a year after the end of the Napoleonic Wars in which his regiment had fought in many battles.
The next year (1817) his first duty was to accompany a convict ship to Sydney.
In 1821 he requested his commanding officer permission to marry Mary Gowen, who is the daughter of John Gowen, onetime Corporal of Marines on HMS Sirius of the First Fleet and later shopkeeper in Liverpool New South Wales Australia.
In 1824 he petitioned Sir Thomas Brisbane, to be allowed to stay in the colony and not travel with his regiment to India. He asked to be given the vacant position of Sargent in the Colonies cavalry. It appears this did not happen and he and his wife go to India where the next year they have a daughter, Frances and 5 years later in 1829 a son, William Henry.
Whether his wife died in India or Gibraltar is unclear but the Date of Discharge was 11/3/1840 in Gibraltar, and he was paid out in Sydney New South Wales, Australia.
His rank at discharge was Sergeant (shown as Barack Sargent on his gravestone) William arrived on the ship 'Matilda'.

During 1851 his pension was being paid to him in New Zealand. It seems William and his son and daughter came to New Zealand in 1848 and settled at Petone, a seaside village across the harbour from Wellington.
The Jones'es had a large landholding in the centre of what is now the Wellington CBD.

William married Mary Gowen 17 Aug 1821, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia. Mary (daughter of John Gowen and Audrey (Ordery) Appleyard) was born 17 May 1806, Liverpool, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; was christened 15 Jun 1806, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died 22 Sep 1900, Menangle, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet]

1. Frances Jones was born 29 Jul 1823, Poonamalee, India; died 1907, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia.
2. William Henry Jones was born 29 Jul 1827, Trivhinopoly, Madras, India; was christened 7 Aug 1827, Trivhinopoly, Madras, India; died 01 Oct 1899, Wellington, New Zealand; was buried 1899, Bolton St, Cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand.