Author talk:Henry Butler Stoney

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Biographical detail

 * son of Richard Falkiner Stoney and Jane Butler http://www.thepeerage.com/p28141.htm (dead link)

Census
Name: 	Henry B Stoney, Lieut. Depot Paymaster; Student of Inner Temple; B.A. Age: 	34 Estimated Birth Year: 	abt 1817 Relation: 	Lieut Depot Bay My Gender: 	Male Where born: 	Portland, Tipperary, Ireland Civil Parish or Township: 	Brecon St John the Evangelist County/Island: 	Breconshire Country: 	Wales Registration district: 	Brecknock Sub-registration district: 	Merthyr Cynog ED, institution, or vessel: 	Barracks Brecon Piece: 	2489 Folio: 	473 Page Number: 	2 Household schedule number: 	1 Household Members: Name 	Age Cecil Rivers 	27 Henry B Stoney 	34 Edward K V Arbuckle 	21 George R Beadon 	21 Edward W Bennett 	27 George Clay 	19 Henry F Uniacke 	20 Thomas W Barrows 	19
 * 1851 Wales; Source Citation: Class: HO107; Piece: 2489; Folio: 473; Page: 2; GSU roll: 104249-104250

detail
Henry Butler Stoney was a captain in the 40th and 99th Regiments posted to Victoria and Tasmania during the 1840s and 1850s. He appears to have been Irish; the preface to Residence in Tasmania (1856) was written in Cork, Ireland and the Stoneys were a distinguished Irish family of scientists and engineers. One member of the family married William Fitzgerald, the Bishop of Cork and Cloyne (1857-1862). Also his novel, Reginald Mortimer (1857) was about the life of an Irish university graduate and army officer.
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Stoney was promoted to a lieutenant in the 19th Foot Regiment in 1840 and captain in 1852 (The Times, 12 September 1840: 4; 29 May 1852:4) at which time he was on the unattached list. Segments of the 99th Regiment came to Tasmania in 1842 and the Regiment was located there from 1848 until its departure for England on 31 October 1855 which would explain Stoney's presence in Cork, Ireland in 1856. He returned to Melbourne as a member of the 40th Regiment in 1857-58 and was a member of the Royal Society of Victoria in those years

The 99th Regiment had been sent to New Zealand to engage the Maoris in 1845-46. It is not known if Stoney visited New Zealand at this point. It is more likely he did not come to Australia until the early 1850s as he was on the unattached list in 1852. Stoney could have visited New Zealand in April 1860 when four companies of the 40th regiment and two of the 12th were sent from Australia to New Plymouth, New Zealand as reinforcements during the Maori Taranaki rebellion. He wrote Taranaki: A Tale of the War; With a Description of the Province (1861). It is a novel describing the Maori war from official documents according to E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 600.

(Source: Tom Gibson The Maori Wars: The British Army in New Zealand 1840-1972 (1974); W. B. Owen, 'Stoney, George Johnstone (1826-1911)', rev. James G. O'Hara, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004).

Death
Registration Number	Family Name	Given Name(s)	Date of Birth	Age at Death
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1894/3960	Stoney 	Henry Butler 		78Y