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There is no evidence anywhere online that such service ever happened.

Get copy marriage and birth certs as advised

He was sponsered to NZ by the Kent Agricultural Labourers Association. Managed a farm in NZ then had his own farm.

Thanks to all. I have found a couple of variations in name such as Habday, and Hobdy.

Would just love to find his Crimean service.
Steven

HOBDAY, MARGARET ANN FOLEY
GRO Reference: 1860 J Quarter in DOVER Volume 02A Page 645

Name Ellen Maria Hobday
Gender Female
Baptism Date 20 Jan 1856
Baptism Place Capel-le-Ferne, Kent, England
Father James Hobday
Mother Margaret Hobday
FHL Film Number 1786210

The man who died in NZ in 1892 was born in 1816/17.......

Name James Hobday
Death Age 75
Birth Date abt 1817
Death Date 13 Feb 1892
Cemetery Riverton
Burial Place Southland

He left a wife, three sons and one daughter

Newspaper article gives his age as 76.......he had been an Estate Manager

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Name James Hobday
Gender Male
Baptism Date 8 Jul 1821
Baptism Place Cheriton, Kent, England
Father Edward Hobday
Mother Rebeckah
FHL Film Number 1866543
Reference ID item 3 p 54

Marriages Dec 1854 (>99%)
Fuller Margaret Ann Dover 2a 1161
Hobday James Dover 2a 1161


If you don't already have a copy of the cert, get one.............it will tell you his occupation

Have you researched....

British Army service, pension and discharge records 1703-1913 ( available at findmypast)

and

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/british-army-soldiers-up-to-1913/

Navy

https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/royal-navy-ratings-up-to-1913/

ADM - Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies-Division within ADM - Records of Service (National Archives)

ADM188 and Hobday/Hobdy= No results for a James

Royal Navy Continuous Service Engagement Books
ADM139 = No exact match to James


Fold3= Nothing for James - Crimea date period or otherwise

1871 England, Wales & Scotland Census
Shooters Hill, Buckland, Dover, Kent, England
James Hobday Head - Male 49 1822 Labourer Cheriton, Kent, England
Margaret Hobday Wife - Female 47 1824 - Cork, Ireland
Ann Hobday Daughter - Female 11 1860 Scholar Dover, Kent, England
Mary Hobday Daughter - Female 9 1862 Scholar Dover, Kent, England
William Hobday Son - Male 4 1867 Scholar Dover, Kent, England

Crimean War dates

5 October 1853 – 30 March 1856

No census in that period......

When/where did he marry?

HOBDAY, ELLEN MARIA (MMN) FULLER
GRO Reference: 1856 M Quarter in DOVER Volume 02A Page 691

He must have been 'at home' in mid-1855

This chap ?

James Hobday

Birth JULY 1821 • Cheriton, Kent, England
Baptism 8 Jul 1821 Cheriton, Kent, England
Death 18 FEBRUARY 1892 • Pahia, Southland, Southland, New Zealand
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James Hobday
in the 1861 England Census

Name James Hobday
Gender Male
Age 40
Relation Head
Estimated Birth Year 1821
Spouse's Name Margaret Hobday
Where born Christon, Kent, England
Civil parish Dover St James the Apostle
Ecclesiastical parish Canterbury St James the Apostle
Town Dover
County/Island Kent
Country England
Registration District Dover
Sub-registration district St James
ED, institution, or vessel 5
Neighbors View others on page
Household schedule number 154
Piece 546
Folio 18
Page number 30

James Hobday 40 Head
Margaret Hobday 37 Wife
Ellen M Hobday 5 Daughter
Margaret A Hobday 2 Daughter

My GG Grandfather James Hobday, b Kent 1822, died New Zealand 1892 is listed in his death notice as a Crimean veteran. There is a gap in his life during the war years. He could have been army or navy, A search online shows no James Hobday (Hobdy) in the army records. Is there a navy record?