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Title: Henry William Sooley - Waterloo
Post by: Sparky53 on Tuesday 25 September 07 23:33 BST (UK)

I would be grateful for a muster  roll look up Henry was born 1790 Ash, Kent and served with 52 Regt of Foot.

Cheers

Jane mother of his 4x gt grandchildren

Title: Re: Henry William Sooley - Waterloo
Post by: Martin Aaron on Tuesday 20 January 09 01:24 GMT (UK)

Hi there, sorry, only just came across this a few mins ago. There was a Henry TOOLEY in the 52nd at Waterloo, could this be your man if one of us has a mispelling? He was born in Ash, Canterbury circa 1790.

Title: Re: Henry William Sooley - Waterloo
Post by: km1971 on Tuesday 20 January 09 09:52 GMT (UK)

Hi Jane

His discharge papers are on microfilm in Kew -

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/searchresults.asp?SearchInit=0&txtsearchterm=henry+sooley&txtfirstdate=&txtlastdate=&txtrestriction=&hdnsorttype=Reference&image1.x=0&image1.y=0

The dates should be the period he served. You can order copies or have the microfilm sent to your nearest LDS centre under the A2A scheme.

You should not expect a lot. The army did not record FH information for example in this period. If you can get to Kew you can follow his service using the Muster Books and Pay Lists (WO12). These will tell you where he was each month.

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/army/step4.htm

Ken

Title: Re: Henry William Sooley - Waterloo
Post by: Sparky53 on Tuesday 20 January 09 17:58 GMT (UK)

HI Ken and Martin thank you for yor replies.

I have fouind out quite a bit more about Henry since my post but I haven't looked in WO12.

I was sent this information:
In 1815 he fought at the battle of Waterloo in Wiliam Rowans company as the Waterloo Medal Roll shows.

Will do a bit more digging on my next trip to Kew

Jane