Northamptonshire Regiment 1898

[forester]

Hello Sandy,

I trust all is now well. 

Steve,

November marriage looks good. It agrees with the Dec Qu. GRO reference I posted before.

Phil

[Stebie9173]

Hmmm, two official dates on records, and two discrepancies from the Ancestral File details.


Confidence in the Ancestral File information is not on the increase


Steve.

[forester]

Steve,

I put them on a par with Submitted Entries. Big pinches of salt required.

Phil

PS Presumably the reason some of the date of births have been more accurate is because they appear on the GRO death index data after 19??.

[Stebie9173]

I think that at least the information will be roughly ok, and hopefully within a tolerable period of time from the actual dates.


Steve will have to order the certificates using the GRO Overseas index if he needs to know the exact dates!


As you say, the November 1867 marriage fits the details on Thomas's service record.



Steve.

[seahall]

Hi Steve and Phil.

On the mend, will have to wait for results for outcome. 

Thanks for good wishes. 

I have just come back from Higham Ferrers after taking a picture of the
5th Royal Welsh Fusilliers plaque in the Church there for someone.

Sandy

[stevetewk65]

Hi Steve,

Thanks for the e-mails, all safely received complete.

Some fascinating reading.

Steve

[cornish milly]

Sorry to come in at the back end of your story!  I have just come across an ancestor who was in the the 48th regiment.  Can you tell me how to get a copy of the war records, I seem to be going around in circles.
Best wishes

[Stebie9173]

Can you let us know which time period please?

The 48th were called such for a very long period - from 1748 through to 1881 (and even clung to the name through the 1st and 2nd World Wars). The 48th were at Quebec in 1759, at the Great Siege of Gibraltar (the source of the castle on their cap badge) from 1779-1783, gained the battle honour of Talavera against Napoleon in the Peninsular War in 1809, were stationed in Australia in the early 1800s, before returning to take part in the Crimean War from 1856 to 1857 where they took part in the Battle of Sevastopol.


If you let us know a name then we might be able to locate some information, though I have very little directly to hand on the earlier records.



Steve.

[cornish milly]

He was William Lingard (or Lingart) the only information I have is on his death cert which says:
2 Nov 1846 died in Kirkham age 62 (1786), out pensioner of Chelsea Hospital from the 48th regiment.  Cause of death bronchitis.
Thanks for your help.