His birth index:
Name THOMAS RICE HAMILTON
Date of Birth 3 December 1827
Address MERRION SQUARE ST
Father JOHN HAMILTON
Mother ELIZABETH CATHERINE
About the record
Book Number Page Entry Number Record_Identifier
N/R 33 290 DU-CI-BA-191569
The church register page containing this record has not yet been imaged.
_________________
And the baptism details:
Area - DUBLIN (COI) , Parish/Church/Congregation - ST. PETER
Baptism of THOMAS RICE HAMILTON of MERRION SQUARE ST on 19 March 1828
________________
In 1841 he was a pupil aged 13 at a boarding school in Carter Street, Crewkerne, Somerset.
Not found in any subsequent census.
________________
The following have been found on Family Search to come from probate records in Pretoria, South Africa, and with very many thanks to Alta le Roux for passing on this gem of a find:
Film # 007805602,
Images 740 to 741
Page 1,
No: 19620
Distrikt: Pretoria
BOEDEL VAN WIJLEN
Thomas Rice Hamilton
Captain Tr Rangers
Page 2,
(Glued on the L/H side) No DEATH NOTICE FOUND
(on the page on the right)
From the Superintendent of Volunteers Pretoria
To the Orphan Master, Pretoria
Pretoria
25th June 1879
I have to report that Captain Thomas Rice Hamilton of the Transvaal (?) Rangers was killed in action at Hlobane Mountain on the 28th March 1879
A Saunders Capt
80th Regt
Supt of Volunteers
End of extract
Family Search’s citation is: "South Africa, Transvaal, Probate Records from the Master of the Supreme Court, 1869-1958," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CS3F-...6NX-T9R%3A1590242410 : 21 August 2017), 007805602 > image 740 of 842; citing Master of the High Court, Pretoria.
___________________