Good Morning Arranroots,
Thank you so much for contacting me
I will tell you what I have:
Albert was the illegitimate son of Martha, although Jane registered his birth.
On the marriage certificates of the children, all have the name John Arran a soldier, deceased on them.
I cannot find Jane's maiden name as I, nor the exceptionally helpful registrars of Pembrokshire can find birth certificates of the John (jr.), Martha or Annie.
On Jane's death certificate, she is stated as being a widow of John a Private 1st Foot Regiment.
The information that Colonel Mason forwarded to me is as follows:
"Our 1st Battalion moved, in January 1853, from Portsmouth to South Wales - HQ and 5 companies in Newport, 2 Companies at Carmarthen, 2 at Brecon and 1 at Cardigan.
On 24 May the 2 from Brecon relieved the Depot of the 36th of Foot at Pembroke and, on 31 May, 2 from Newport joined them. On 3 March 1854 the Battalion sailed from Plymouth for the Crimea War. The 36th were the Herefordshire Regiment which, through various convolutions, became the Worcester and Sherwood Foresters.
1853 was the only time that the Battalion was in Pembroke or indeed in Wales."
Any advice from you on where to go from here would be would be appreciated!
Many thanks, Lynnette.
