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Hi Cazzie

Unfortunately there are lots of Ords in Northumberland (and Durham). Mine were from the north near the Scottish borders. They were labourers taken on at the hiring fairs as all the children were born all over the place.

The earliest I have is a Thomas born 1802, and I am descended from one of his sons who ended up in Broomhill.

*Ances* have an Ord forum you could perhaps post on, or if you had anything which said which part of Northumberland your Robert came from then it would help to narrow things down.

Tracy

Hi Patricia

Is that Jane b.1830?

My interest is through son William b.1828 ->Robert b.1856 ->Josephine b.1892 who married Charles Troughton. Josephine and Charles were the parents of my late step-grandfather George Troughton. His children are my half-aunt & half-uncle if that makes sense!

Robert b.1856 married Sarah Reid. In the 1891 census she is in the poor house in Alnwick, Robert is no where to be seen, and it looks as though Josephine may have been born there. Given that the Murrays may well have been comfortable, it seems as though Sarah must have been disgraced and they didn't want to take her in. Grandad alays said she was a bit of a girl, and was in South Shields as a Widow in 1901 with yet another daughter.

I never really tracked down what happened to Robert.

Tracy

Have you tried the National Archives? I found a great uncle's sea pouch there for the 2nd world war:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/looking-for-person/merchantseamanafter1917.htm?WT.lp=rg-3193

I did have a quick search for you and he's not listed as having a pouch there but the link might give you leads elsewhere.

According to wikipedia the 99th amalgamated with the 62nd in 1881 and became the Wilshire Regiment (Duke of Edingburgh's).

Before the 2nd Boer war in 1899, there was one section in India and another in Guernsey.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire_Regiment

It says that the depot was in Devizes. That might help with narrowing down census searches.

What was the name of his wife and did they have any other children?  Where did they marry? Have you got the wife on any census records? She may be living close to where the regiment was based. What was the last census that you have his wife in?