Royal Veterans at Edinburgh Castle and a foreign marriage

[Glory1505]

Hi there

I'm trying to see if I can get further with my 5x Great Grandparents but I think my search now takes me out into Europe which I really have no experience with researching so I hope you can help!

My 4x Great Grandfather was William Cartwright (twin brother of Isabella), who was born and baptised in Edinburgh in 1808. On his baptism register it states that he is the son of 'Mr Cartwright, an Ensign in the Royal Veterans at Edinburgh Castle, and Valentina Rosa de Cruz, his wife'.

Some quick research shows that the 9th Battalion Royal Veterans were based at Edinburgh Castle at this time. Does anyone know more about this regiment and if there are any records for them?

Previously the regiment had been based in Gibraltar and Madeira. My theory is that he met his wife in one of these locations as her name is certainly not English/Scottish! I think also that the Cartwrights were probably English and just based in Edinburgh during his military service.

Can anyone help or offer advice about how I can try to find the name of my 5x Great Grandfather and find any kind of marriage record between him and Valentina?

William, later has a son with Sarah Garner (now living in Leciestershire), who he also calls Valentina Rosa de Croix Cartwright after his mother. She uses both Valentina and Rose/a in later records so perhaps her mother did too.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

:-)

[Skoosh]

Anything in the National Archives,   http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/

Skoosh.

[Br1gau]

Two William Cartwrights here, one Ensign from the late 9th Royal Veterans & one Captain from the late 1st:
http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/17537/pages/2084/page.pdf

[Br1gau]

Hi again Glory,

From your post, and also looking at William Cartwright’s marriage to Sarah Garner on freereg, they were married in 1839 in Loughborough:
http://tinyurl.com/m96x26r

Marriages Jun Qtr 1839   
CARTWRIGHT William – GARNER Sarah Loughborough, Vol: 15 Page: 179

The following page describes the sort of information found on the various certificates.  By ordering the marriage cert you should be able to learn William’s father’s name, confirm his occupation and perhaps if he was deceased by that date.
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/Certificates.html

[Hampshire Lass]

Hi everyone 

Has anything more come to light about Valentina Rosa de Cruz? She is a direct ancestor of a friend and I'm going round in circles trying to research her.

 A Google search led me back to Rootchat 😊