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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Pauline42 on Friday 24 February 06 22:18 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone give me a clue as to how I go about finding out about someone who was a soldier in 1851. (on the 1851 census Edward HOLLINGDALE b abt 1826 Sussex is listed as a private in a Barracks St George Hanover Sq. ) I know that in 1871 his children are at the Royal Partriotic Asylum for Boys Wandsworth Common and the District Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum for Girls, Wandsworth- which I believe were set up as a shcool for the children of soldiers. He died in 1866.
Any ideas?
Pauline
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The 1861 census gives you a place of birth
RG9 69 folio 35
11 Clipstone Street St Marylebone Middlesex
Edward Hollingdale 34 Worthing, Sussex, Head Married bricklayer's labourer
Elizabeth Hollingdale 23 Chelsea, Middlesex, Wife Married
Elizabeth Hollingdale 3 Chelsea, Middlesex, Daughter
Sarah Hollingdale 2 Chelsea, Middlesex, Daughter
From FreeBMD his marriage will give you father's name and occupation
Marriages Dec 1856
Hollingdale Edward Chelsea 1a 225
Seaite Elizabeth Chelsea 1a 225
Worthing parish registers for the period you are interested in, are not I believe covered by the IGI.
Regards
Valda