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General => Armed Forces => Topic started by: Dizzygirl on Thursday 04 August 11 09:19 BST (UK)
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Hi
I am trying to find out more about my ancestor John Fowler (in the hope that I can trace his family back).
What I know is that he was born in approximately 1805 in Birmingham. By late 1830s he is in Plymouth and has married(?) Mary Bebell. On a child's birth certificate in 1838 he is a private in the Royal Marines. He was in the Isle of Ascension around 1841/42 as another child was born there. In the 1851 census he was a Greenwich pensioner.
I've tried the NA, FindMyPast and A****try but can't see him there.
I would be grateful for any information which I can be pointed in the direction of.