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Hi
I should be very grateful for any information about the marriage of a Harriet Higgins in Croydon between March and June 1853.
She was the sister of my 2x great-grandfather, would have been about 30 years old and a widow.
Many thanks
Talmage

I am trying to work out how the wife of a soldier in the early 19th century would have been able to join her husband in Ireland. The details are as follows:
I believe the soldier in question to be my 3x great grandfather who joined the 4th Light Dragoons about 1809, spent most of the following five years in a French POW camp but re-joined his regiment at the end of the Napoleonic Wars. They returned to the UK but, within weeks had been sent to Ireland. It appears that his wife and possibly one child joined them there as, on his discharge certificate dated November 5th 1818, there is a record of money being paid to help his wife and two children return to England.
Now, whether or not this man was my ancestor, I am curious as to how she would have got herself from Surrey to Ireland. The soldiers do not appear to have had leave when they returned from France, the couple in question could not write so how would she have known where he had gone, let alone got herself to somewhere in south west Ireland?
Any ideas would be very welcome.
Thanks in advance
Talmage

I am trying to confirm that my great-great grandfather, William Whitmore, was born in Ireland while his father was serving there between 1814 and 1818. The baptismal records for Cahir, near Tipperary, the town given on censuses as his birthplace, have been checked but no record of his baptism has been found.
I wonder if anyone can tell me how likely it was that his mother would have followed her husband to Ireland at this time and also if the regiment would have had a chaplain so that he might have been baptised in the barracks.

Thanks
 Talmage

I should be grateful for any information about Fanny Chard. The following is all I have been able to find out about her so far:

1861 census:
Recorded as a visitor at the home of William and Emma Tomkinson at Codsall Wood. (I think they were her father and step-mother). Birthplace given as Bilston, year of birth c. 1830.
Also recorded is a Walter Chard, birthplace Bilston and year of birth c. 1860 and I assume he is her son.

1841 census:
Living with William and Emma Tomkinson at Gunstone.

Baptism: St Leonard's, Bilston, 30 September 1828. parents listed as William and Mary Tomkinson.

I cannot find any other information and would particularly like to find out when she married so any help would be very welcome.
Thanks in advance
Talmage