Born at Welchpool, Montgomeryshire.
Enlisted at Manchester on the 25th of April 1854.
Age: 19.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Labourer.
Features: Fresh complexion. Grey eyes. Brown hair.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 3rd of August 1855.
Sent to England on the 18th of October 1855 and joined the Depot on the 16th of November.
Discharged from Kilmainham on the 15th of December 1855:
"Invalided and on the 'Reduction of the Regiment'. Has pulmonary consumption in a latent form. An ordinary case of constitutional disability, aggravated by severe cold in the Crimea."
Served 2 years 231 days. In Turkey and the Crimea: 3 months.
Conduct, "good". Not in possession of any Good Conduct badges.
Awarded a pension of 6d. per day, "until the 9th of July 1857".
To live at Church Bridge, near Walsall.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol and the Turkish medal.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
1861 Census
Red Lane, Cheslyn Hay, Staffs.
RM: William Armishaw is shown as a Smith's Striker, single, aged 24, born Welchpool, living in his parents' household.
Other members of the household include his parents, John and Hannah, seven siblings and two grandchildren.
1871 Census
By 1871 he is shown as William Illsley Armishaw, a Watchman, a widower in his parents' household at Landy Wood Lane, Great Wyrley, Staffs. Five other siblings, three grandchildren, and one orphan are also shown.
Marriage registered
William Armishaw and Hannah Guest, December Quarter 1871, in Birmingham.
1891 Census
32, Northfield Road, Harborne, Birmingham.
William, 53, Farm Labourer.
Hannah, 40, Laundress.
Eight children shown, including 9-month-old twin girls, Milicent and Gertrude.
Death registered
The death of Gertrude, one of the twins, was registered in June Quarter 1891 in Kings Norton, shortly after the Census.
1901 Census
RM: He is shown on the 1901 Census return as aged 64, born Wales. His occupation was "Watchman" and he was living at 34 Northfield Road, in the Harborne St Peter's parish of Birmingham.
1911 Census
77, Victoria Road, Harborne, Birmingham.
William Illsley Armishaw, 76, Army Pensioner, born Welchpool.
Hannah, 61, Midwife Certified.
Three children are shown: daughters Milicent, Lucy, Dorothy, who all worked for a chocolate company.
Death registered
The death of his wife, Hannah, aged 89, was registered in the March Quarter 1940 in Birmingham.
Death registered
The death of William I. Armishaw, 76, was registered in the September Quarter of 1914 in Kings Norton, Birmingham.
Registration of marriage and deaths, and Census information for 1891 & 1911, and additional information for 1871 & 1871, kindly provided by Chris Poole.