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O'Hara and Stuart Home Some thoughts on Lawrence O'Hara Lawrence O'Hara and the East India Company Lawrence O'Hara and the British Army The 52nd Regiment The 33rd Regiment The 56th Regiment Research Sources

Summary of sources searched: so I dont redo them

British Library - India Office Records

• IOR/Z/O/6/2 - Index to Personnell Records (H-Z, 1794-1841). It is possible that he left prior to 1794 due to the re-organisation
• IOR/Z/0/1/1 - Bonds of Overseas Staff of the EIC (1700-1800). This primarily records bonds relating to senior appointment which may explain the absence of any records
• IOR/F/1/1 - Court Directors Minutes (1784-1793) - only senior appointments noted
• IOR/F/1/2 - Court Directors Minutes (1794-1804) - only senior appointments noted
• IOR/O/5/24 - Establishment Details (1766-1800) - only senior appointments noted
• IOR/O/5/25 - Establishment Summaries (1766-1800) - only senior appointments noted
• I have checked the shipping journal of the Egmont (IOR/L/MAR/B/535E) and Francis (IOR/L/MAR/B/443) and no O'Hara's are mentioned, but unless they died or were responsible for some incident they would have not have been.

The National Archives (Public Record Office) * indicates information found

War Office and predecessors: Indexes to Out-letters
WO2/1, WO2/2, WO2/36, WO2/37, WO2/38

War Office: Secretary-at-War, Out-letters (Admin 1796)
WO4/163, WO4/164, WO4/164

War Office: Secretary-at-War, Out-letters
(1795) WO4/298
(1796) WO4/299
(1805-1810) WO4/514
(1810-1813) WO4/515
(1813-1815) WO4/516
(1815-1816) WO4/517
(1817-1820) WO4/518
(1820-1836) WO4/519

Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists: 33rd Foot 1st Battalion
* (1791-1804) WO12/4804
* (1808-1809) WO12/4805
* (1810) WO12/4806<
* (1811) WO12/4807
* (1812) WO12/4808

Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists: 52nd Foot 1st Battalion
* (1780 - 1797) WO12/6241
* (1798 - 1799) WO12/6242

Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists: 56th Foot 1st Battalion (1813)
* (1811) WO12/6556
* (1812) WO12/6557
* (1813) WO12/6558
* (1814) WO12/6559
* (1815) WO12/6560
(1816-1817) WO12/6561 - only paylists of non-commisioned

Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists: 56th Foot 2nd Battalion (1813)
* (1811) WO12/6625
* (1812) WO12/6626
* (1813) WO12/6627

War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related Bodies, Registers
(1796/97)W025/225
* (1796/97) W025/226 - confirms Lawrence as Ensign

War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related Bodies, Registers: 52nd Foot
(1783-1806) WO25/405

War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related Bodies, Registers RETURNS OF OFFICERS' SERVICES
( -1828) WO 25/770 ( -1828) WO 25/771

War Office and predecessors: Secretary-at-War, Secretary of State for War, and Related Bodies, Registers: Reports of Officers' Marriages
(1799-1843) WO25/3239

Office of the Commander-in-Chief: Memoranda and Papers
(1796) WO31/47
(1796) WO31/48
(1796) WO31/49
(1796) WO31/50
(1796) WO31/51
(1796) WO31/52
(1796) WO31/53
(1796) WO31/54
(1796) WO31/55
(1806) WO31/219
* (1819) WO31/478 - this confirmed his Brevet to Major

Certificates of births, baptisms marriages and deaths extracted from old personal papers
(1777-1892). WO32/8905

Birth and baptismal certificates extracted from old papers
(1790-1888) WO32/8914

Marriage certificates extracted from old papers
(1814-1872) WO32/8918

War Office: Officers' Birth Certificates, Wills and Personal Papers
(1755-1908) WO42

War Office: Secretary-at-War, Correspondence
(1780-1874) WO43/1059

Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents: 56th Foot: Mas - Pyn
(1760-1854) WO 97/693

War Office and predecessors: Commissariat Department: Out-letters: Mauritius and St. Helena
(1810-1817) WO58/110

War Office: General Sir Robert Brownrigg, Military Secretary to Commander in Chief, Quartermaster General and Governor of Ceylon (Sri Lanka): Papers
(1795 Apr.-1798 Aug) WO133/1
(1798 Aug.-1805 Sept) WO133/2
(1797) WO133/3

Home Office: Military Entry Books
(1796-1797) HO51/10 (Only Militia not relevant)