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I am assisting a friend in trying to find information about her ancestor, Richard Mayne. All she knows about him is that he was born in Ireland, possibly Dublin, around 1787/1788 and served as a Lieutenant with the 30th Regiment of Foot from 1809 until his death in 1827 at the Infantry Barracks, Canterbury, Kent.
She has in her possession his 1815 Waterloo Medal which has been passed down through the generations of the Mayne family. She would very much like to try and establish how she is related to him.
I am new to Irish genealogy and would therefore very much appreciate any help in tracing Richard's birth record and family.

Msny thanks for this most interesting information Shaun.

I am assisting a friend in trying to find information about her ancestor, Richard Mayne. All she knows about him is that he was born in Ireland, possibly Dublin, around 1787/1788 and served as a Lieutenant with the 30th Regiment of Foot from 1809 until his death in 1827 at the Infantry Barracks, Canterbury, Kent.
She has in her possession his 1815 Waterloo Medal which has been passed down through the generations of the Mayne family. She would very much like to try and establish how she is related to him and to find out about his military career.
I understand that military records may give details of birth and parents, as well as service career.
Any help in tracing Richard's birth and military record would be very much appreciated.

I have the WW2 service record of a soldier who served with the Remount Squadron & the Royal Army Veterinary Corps in Palestine, Greece, Iraq and France. There is no mention in the record of him being directly engaged in any military action. I would be interested to learn whether soldiers of the Remount Squadron & RAVC solely looked after the horses, etc. or were also actively engaged in combat.

I am trying to trace the marriage of Edward Green & Ann Curtis. They appear in the 1871-1911 censuses, living in Billinghay, near Sleaford. Listed on the censuses are five of their children - Sarah Jane, born June quarter of 1868, William Edward, born Sept quarter of 1871, Lucy Ann, born Sep quarter of 1873, John, born March quarter of 1876 and William, born Sept quarter of 1878.
The GRO online index gives their mother's maiden surname as 'Curtis', except for William Edward, given as 'Cart'. There is a step-daughter, Ellen Carr, aged 8 on the 1871 Census, but there is no entry on the GRO online index in this name, only an Ellen Curtis, born March quarter of 1863 with no mother's maiden surname given.
I can find no marriage in the whole of the GRO index for Edward Green & Ann Curtis, but there is an entry in the March quarter of 1863 in Sleaford for Edward Green and Ann Carter. I am therefore wondering if Ann's maiden surname could possibly have been incorrectly registered.
If anyone has access to the parish records for this area I would be most grateful if they could search for this marriage.
Many thanks.
Geoff