James CAREY

1808 -

• Name	James CAREY  [1, 2]
  Birth	1808	Dungannon, Tyrone, Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Military Enlistment	26 Dec 1825	Belfast, Antrim, Ireland   [1]
  	Private, Royal Sappers and Miners, Miner
  1841 Survey Company	1841	Cork, Cork, Ireland   [2]
  	Sergeant, 13th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners
  _MILTID	227  [1]
  Person ID	I6406	Ordnance Survey People
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  [S27] Ancestry.com, UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Registers of Soldiers Who Served in Canada, 1743-1882, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2013;). Record for James Carey http://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=3255&h=130030&indiv=try [S306] Survey Company. FindmyPast provides access to a transcription of the British Army, Worldwide Index for 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871. Within the records for the Royal Sappers and Miners (1841 and 1851, and Royal Engineers (1861 and 1871) are transcriptions for the Survey Companies; 13, 14 and 16 Companies. These Companies were established specifically for duties in support of the Ordnance Survey. There are 1043 individuals identified in these transcriptions. The transcriptions include the following information; Year, Name, Rank, Army Number, Company, Station, and Comments.