Born at Cirencester.
1841 Census
Heath Cottage, Cheltenham.
William Fenner, 8, and his sisters Sarah, 12, and Elizabeth, 6, lived with their parents William, a Groom aged 37, and his wife Ann, 30.
Enlisted on the 8th of May 1854.
No other enlistment details apart from his trade as a groom are shown.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea on the 1st of August 1855.
Invalided to England from Scutari on the 24th of October 1855.
Discharged, "by purchase", from Aldershot on the 6th of June 1864. Payment of £10.
Served 10 years 1 month.
Conduct: "very good". In possesssion of two Good Conduct badges.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol.
Not recorded by Lummis and Wynn.
A man of this name was shown in the 1881 Census Returns as living at No 111 Belgrave Street, Ratcliffe, Stepney, London, a Gardener, aged 45, born at Tiverly Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, with his wife Eliza, aged 39, also born at Tiverly.
[RM: William James Fenner, aged 52, is registered as dying in the Stepney Registration district in the December quarter of 1883.]
Census information for 1841 kindly provided by Chris Poole.