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It’s a possibility but most of the extracts seems to say soldier or private.

The chat room users suggest I post a request for help tracing an ancestor from the military which has puzzled me for years.

George Smith married Caroline in England sometime before or on 1862.  He was a soldier in the Royal Artillery.

His son George Arthur Smith was born in England 1862 (Scottish census records 1891, 1901 and 1911).  He relocated from England to Old Monklands, Scotland and married Margaret Cameron on 1 June 1892.

I cannot not trace the origins of the George Smith senior family in England.

The marriage certificate of The son list the father and mother having been deceased in 1892. The father’s occupation is listed as a soldier in Royal Artillery.  Presumably George Smith senior died between 1862 to 1892.  Unfortunately the maiden name of his mother is not really legible but did look like McLennon. But the death certificate of the George junior and his marriage certificate give different looking maiden names of the mother.

Any help you can provide me tracing the mother and father - possibly from or around Lancashire- would be much appreciated.

Extracts from the death certificate 1923 and marriage certificate 1892 are from Scotland’s People.

Yes thanks - I can't find his death in Glasgow. I'm told he was killed away at war.  Will look into that link.  Thanks Harry

You should be able to get a copy of George's ww2 service record at a cost of £30 as you have his birth record

https://www.gov.uk/requests-for-personal-data-and-service-records

Have you considered that he may have been a civilian killed by enemy action?

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has a record for ann and neil cameron census 1841 but i can access it

OK, this is a rubbish transcript...however, I think these are the Camerons. Maybe Ann Ferguson was not the mother to the earlier children and this is why there are only three showing under those both parents' names? Margaret, Catherine and Jean.

From 1871:

Neil Lameson 38 Coal Pit Cyins Keeper b. Spifsshie, Dumfriesshire
Ann Cannon 39 b. Kirkcaldy, Dumfriesshire (Kirkcaldy is in Fife  )
Mary Cannon 13 Steem Loom Weaver b. Old Monkland, Lanarkshire
Danald Cannon 11 Steem Loom Weaver b. Barony Lanarkshire
Robert Cannon 9 b. Barony Lanarkshire
James Cannon 7 b. Bothwell, Lanarkshire
Margaret Cannon 6 b. Bothwell, Lanarkshire
Cathrine Cannon 6 b. Bothwell, Lanarkshire

Address: 23 (and then blank on transcript) Bothwell

Let me check some more...

Monica