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Armed Forces / Re: Help-lookup required for Crimea War medal Roll
« on: Thursday 30 September 10 18:34 BST (UK) »
Neil,
I’m sure I’m not the only one that asks you questions cheekily like this, I seen that you helped Paul Bibby out in hunting a relative of his down in the Crimea War medal Roll, and I would hope if you could do the same for me. I’d be ever so grateful if you could assist me finding a reference on a chap by the name of Edward Ferguson who had fought in the Crimean war. I believe there may be an entry for his name in the national archives WO 13/266 or WO 68/405/4 (and if it helps in any way, his date of birth was January 18th 1829, and he was born and died in Co. Cavan Ireland). He was a receiver of an army pension. Unfortunately I have no information on what regimental unit he was in (but I suspect 4th Battalion, Irish Fusiliers, Royal, formerly Cavan Militia), nor do I have his rank or date of discharge. Scant Information, I know for you to go on, but your feedback, would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, for your time and efforts.What other approaches would you recommend to take in solving this ?.
John Marshal
I’m sure I’m not the only one that asks you questions cheekily like this, I seen that you helped Paul Bibby out in hunting a relative of his down in the Crimea War medal Roll, and I would hope if you could do the same for me. I’d be ever so grateful if you could assist me finding a reference on a chap by the name of Edward Ferguson who had fought in the Crimean war. I believe there may be an entry for his name in the national archives WO 13/266 or WO 68/405/4 (and if it helps in any way, his date of birth was January 18th 1829, and he was born and died in Co. Cavan Ireland). He was a receiver of an army pension. Unfortunately I have no information on what regimental unit he was in (but I suspect 4th Battalion, Irish Fusiliers, Royal, formerly Cavan Militia), nor do I have his rank or date of discharge. Scant Information, I know for you to go on, but your feedback, would be much appreciated.
Many thanks in advance, for your time and efforts.What other approaches would you recommend to take in solving this ?.
John Marshal
Hi,
I have the medal roll on CD-ROM. It's organised first by regiment, then generally by rank, then (more or less) alphabetically.
But then to complicate the story, there are some supplementary lists. Plus there are the problems of illegibility at times (these are scans from the original rolls, not transcriptions).
What I'm saying (in a round about way) is that I'll gladly do lookups, but don't fancy trying needle-in-a-haystack type searches. It would take forever!
Can you narrow it down at all? Or perhaps tell me where he's from and I'll search a couple of the most likely regiments, ie the county regiment(s). At the very least I can hopefully eliminate a couple for you.
Neil