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Thanks Andy.   I found more info on Wikipedia.  I've emailed RR to ask if he knows William Cathcart's birthplace.  If it was Ireland he may be connected to me.  I've asked him for dates of enlistments with the Army and date and place of death ... awaiting his reply.  I did a DNA test with Ancestry a month ago  .. then I will know if we are connected.
Rootschatters previously located much info for me on my maternal Great Grandfather, the Rogue, James Cathcart.
He was born at Fulwood, Preston in 1852 or 1854 but not baptised until 1855 when his mother Jane Dickinson had married widower John Cathcart (of Ireland) moved to Kendal, then Alloa then enlisted in the RA as a bombardier and was stationed at Cliffden Camp, near Freshwater, IoWight.
there he married in 1874.  He Re-enlisted with the Scots Guards at London but was discovered to be a Deserter and returned to the RA.
He and his family appear at Southerness in the 1881 Census using the Wilson surname.  On the same Census page are other Army Wilsons, some from Ireland.
James Cathcart (Wilson) then disappears.  His wife dies aged 27 in Freshwater in 1885 after being in the Workhouse and her children go into Workhouses again.
His youngest son, Albert William (Edward) Cathcart, b.1884 enlists and eventually becomes RSM of the Lancers based at Weedon Bec.  He marries Gladys Emma Tubby in 1925.  She told me he never knew his parents but had been told his father was from Glasgow. Alloa is not too far away and he was there in 1871.
I suspect he snuck into Canada or the USA.
cheers,  Ian

Sumatra and Calibre can be downloaded free to your computer and can read ebooks and pdf files. No need for a Kindle.   In the CEX store in Irvine's shopping mall they sell refurbished stuff and they had an early version of Kindle for £20.
My local Library checks their files and locates stock from other libraries and requests them then emails me when they receive them.  Great for hard to get authors like Magnus Mills, etc!
hope this helps, cheers, Ian

Well Angus, at the risk of being called out as an Anti-pedant can I refer you to the Original Poster's Reply #12.
cheers, Ian

Download ' everything' from Voidtools ... Free.   Choose not to have it Run as Administrator and no need for it in startup.
Use Windows button simultaneously with 'R' pressed and in the resultant box enter ' Services msc' and scroll down the list for SEARCH ( the Windows version ) and disable it ( in Properties) but ALSO Disable INDEXING because that is what uses too much CPU time.  Search can function without the Indexing, it justs takes longer, but Everything is rapid compared to Windows Search.
Hunting the 'net I found that you can set the CPU to Minimum 50% and Maximum 100% and though it seems counter-intuitive, it works, my CPU percentage went up in Task Manager and Performance Monitor.
Hope this helps.
cheers, Ian

Within the depths of Windows 10 you will find, Notepad, very very basic, and also you should find Wordpad, a simplified version of Word, but still a word processor,adequate for your letter-writing needs.  I checked the Microsoft website and it appears you can re-install Word or download it from their site.
I've used LibreOffice suite for years  (free) and it's word processor is called Writer ... equivalent to Ms Word.
However, I frequently Download Song Lyrics and it has recently become the way to offer them as PDF (portable document format ) files and if locked then you can't EDIT them easily, except... by using Editpad Lite (free) which gives you the power to do what you like with almost any Text file.
If you are only doing letters as correspondence then I recommend Wordpad.
cheers, Ian