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« on: Thursday 21 July 11 18:49 BST (UK) »
Now then, Ken, one has to admire someone who can state "as George was married in December (qtr) it is likely he was serving in the 47th Regiment of Foot" - I really do think his brother Henry would be proud of that statement during his time as a Met police inspector! The precise date was December 15 if that's helpful.
Liverpool seems to me to be something of a key, especially as you mention Limerick. George's bride, one Jane Tinsley, like him is absent from the 1871 census, she from her home in the Scotland Road area of Liverpool. Hers was a very poor family and it would be difficult to envisage her travelling much or meeting many persons other than those in her immediate area. Somehow she and George, from Middlesex, meet, and it is difficult to see his army involvement not having something to do with it.
Perhaps the 47th would have some form of base in Liverpool or members of it would perhaps commonly take periods of leave there as a relatively easy place to reach on the mainland?
George and Jane settled in Liverpool after their marriage. One of their descendents - my second cousin Alan Rouse - became the first Briton to scale K2, tragically dying on the descent.
Ninny jan - thanks, yes, the Met records might well reveal more, a good idea. As might Henry's daughter's birth certificate.