Years ago I ordered a record from TNA regarding Commander Matthew Young. Whilst looking through it properly it helped me fill in some names on my family tree.
The record is from ADM 45/34 Navy Board, and Admiralty, Accountant General’s Department: Officers’ and Civilians’ Effects Papers and I think relates to an application for a widow’s pension. The details are as follows:
Claim received at the Admiralty: 24 September 1855
Amount reported due, and for what: Half Pay. Will dated 2 June 1854.
Officers, Pensioners’ and Civilians’ Register: Numbers 9/477 Letter Y
Name of the Deceased: Commander Matthew Young
Name and Address of the Claimant: Mrs Charlotte Young – Executress, Dunmore East, Killea, Co. Waterford
6A for a Will – 3 October 1855
8- 9 October 1855
8B Audit Office 19 October 1855
Claim Admitted {illegible signature}
Certificate Examined 19 Oct 1855
I presume the application was approved but perhaps I need to look for another record which grants the pension. Interestingly the wife’s name is Mrs Charlotte Young suggesting Commander Matthew Young remarried after his first wife died in 1836.
