Hi Katherine
Part of your question was is it a "common practice for Irish members of
the BRA to be given incentives such as land.." While the land grant was
offered it was not a taken up by every soldier. As example in the
hundred regiment of foot there would be approximetly 1000 men. Only
married men in good standing would be accepted by the Petition Board. In
the end just over one hundred men and their families were given land
grants. Specifically from Tyrone there was about a dozen soldiers who
applied and were accepted to recieve land grants. Multiply this by the
number of regiments and the number is fairly small. Britian at the time
of the war of 1812 had only around five thousand soldiers in Canada so
the number of men from Tyrone recieveing land grants would have been
pretty small if we assume the same percentage as the hundred regiment
carried to all other serving regiments. I believe this land grant system
was carried out to at least 1840's but I see no record of it after that
time that I am aware of.
Cheers
Ron McCoy
On 1/18/2021 6:52 PM, Katherine Q via CoTyroneList wrote:
Hello Listers,
I have a 3 part question, referring to County Tyrone in the late 18th - early
19th century:
1. Does anybody know if it was a common practice for Irish members of the
British Royal Army/Military to be given incentives such as land for their
service?
2. Was it a common practice for the oldest son to inherit all of the land that
a father owned, if the father owned land?
And 3. If 1 and 2 are so, did that make it more common for younger sons who
would not inherit land to join the military in order to get land?
Thanks for any help you can provide,
Katherine Quigley
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