Col Hugh Plunkett Bourchier

1798 - 1862  (~ 64 years)

• Name	Hugh Plunkett Bourchier
  Title	Col
  Birth	c. 1798	Enfield House Dublin
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Jan 1862	Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada
  Person ID	I0096	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	30 May 2022

  
  

  Father	Major-General John Bourchier, R.A.,   b. 1755, Ardcrony, Tipperary, co Clare, Ireland d. 1817 (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Mary Macnamara   d. 1831, Brighton
  Marriage	c. 1786
  Family ID	F74	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne Duguid,   b. Gibraltar
  Marriage	1832	Gibraltar
  Children	1. Charles James Bourchier,   b. 4 Dec 1834, Edge Hill, Lancashire, England + 2. Hugh Plunkett Bourchier,   b. 11 Sep 1836, Edge Hill, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom d. May 11 1885, Valparaiso, Chile (Age 49 years)   3. Mary Bourchier,   b. 1838, Gibraltar   4. Henrietta Louise Bourchier,   b. c. 1842 + 5. Lucy Elisa Bourchier,   b. c. 1841   d. 25 Feb 1923, Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada (Age ~ 82 years)   6. Virginia Blanche Evelegh Bourchier,   b. 1852, Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario d. 1934 (Age 82 years)
  Family ID	F71	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 May 2022

  
  

• Event Map

  Marriage - 1832 - Gibraltar Death - 24 Jan 1862 - Kingston, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  “BOURCHIER, HUGH PLUNKETT,” - Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 9, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/bourchier_hugh_plunkett_9E.html. 'Hugh Plunkett Bourchier, whose brother Thomas was later a naval hero in the 1st China War of 1839–42, entered the British army in 1814 and served in Portugal and at Gibraltar. He fought under the Duke of Wellington in France with the 19th Light Dragoons. In 1837 Bourchier came to Canada as a captain in the 93rd Regiment and after some time at Halifax and Toronto was posted adjutant of Fort Wellington near Prescott, Upper Canada, under Colonel Plomer Young. In May 1839 he succeeded Thomas Fitzgerald as town major of Kingston' John Kemble's Gibraltar Journal: Note 30 - Hugh Plunkett Bourchier(Dictionary of Canadian Biography).. First Lieutenant in the 23rd Regiment of Foot, the Royal Welsh Fusileers, stationed in Gibraltar from 1828 to 1834. Record in Army Chaplains Marriages - Gibraltar (www.iukgenweb.org) Bouchier,Hugh Plunket,1832,395 - https://books.google.ca/books?id=gtXLtAGbZBgC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=bourchier+mayor+of+kingston&source=bl&ots=ynZkzIIDYd&sig=jIV0BrRm2uO5tbpELkS5f0EOdqI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwigpJPCn7PNAhUDxWMKHZgTBqwQ6AEILTAD#v=onepage&q=bourchier%20mayor%20of%20kingston&f=false .Fred Taylor: Bother in the Shadows, by John Virtue (Google books) Hugh Plunket Bourchier fought against Napoleon in the Battle of Waterloo. POsted to Canada in 1837, he was the last of the "town mayors" of Kingston, commanding the military garrison before Confederation in 1867. the new annual army list, for 1841 with an index. by H.G Hart, Google Books Ensign: 12 May 1814; Lieut: 20 Nov 1823; Captain: 7 Aug 1835: Placed on half pay 6 Dec 1839. 19 Dragoons.