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I'm looking at the army service record of an ancestor who served in the Norfolk Regiment 1885-1897.  According to his records he served in India and Burma.  I've transcribed most of it but I'm really stuck  with this word (see attachments).  He seems to have been stationed there twice and I can't read either entry.  He served in Bangalore between times.  He was also in Rangoon and Wellington which I think is in southern India.  Can anyone make out what this word says?  Many thanks in advance.

I'm looking for Henry Edward MITCHELL in the 1851 and 1861 censuses.  I have found him  in 1871, living with his wife Mary and their family in Brighton and I have managed to trace the family through the later censuses but I would like to know about his early life.

Henry Edward was born in Hoxton 1842; this matches up with the later census records.  He was the son of Henry Mitchell, a sawyer.  I have found a baptism for Henry Edward in 1842 at Christchurch Hoxton along with his sister Sarah Elizabeth who was born in 1840.  Their mother's name was Elizabeth Randall.

I have found Henry, Elizabeth and Sarah in the 1841 census in Shoreditch where Henry is a sawyer.  Both Henry and Elizabeth are aged 20 and both are not born in Middlesex.  After that I cannot find census records for these people.

The next confirmed sighting of Henry Edward b. 1842 is in 1867 at the baptism of his daughter Elizabeth in Hawkhurst, Kent which is where is wife Mary was born.  He was living in Brighton by 1870 as their son Percy was baptised there.  This is confirmed by the 1871 census where he appears as a sawyer living in North Road, Brighton.  He lived in Sussex until his death in 1914.

So where was he in 1851 and 1861?  Was he still in London with his family or had they moved to Brighton by that stage?  Where did he spend the first 24 years of his life?  I'm grateful for any help in finding him.

Thank you.

CathieM

I wonder if any of you can explain this problem for me.  I was searching FreeBMD for a marriage using Google Chrome and the search returned no results.  Then I searched FreeBMD again for the same marriage using IE9 and found the marriage I was looking for.  I checked both again with the same results.  And it was the same again after I rebooted.  On another website, the page displayed clearly in IE9 but in Chrome I get a message saying there is no internet connection.  My operating system in Vista Home Premium 32-bit; both IE9 and Chrome are up-to-date.  Does anyone know what causes this discrepancy?  I'm not too worried as I have the option to use both browsers but I'm curious about why it happens and the implications for any other searches I have done.

I'm looking for a baptism record for my 3xgreat grandfather, William Westby.  He married Margaret Pilkington at Ormskirk in 1822 and I believe he died in 1869.  According to the 1851 census he was born c. 1798 in Wheelton, Lancashire.  I have searched for a baptism in the Wheelton/Chorley/Leyland area and also the Ormskirk area to no avail.  There is talk in the family that the Westbys were Roman Catholic.  Westby is an unusual name in the Ormskirk area and there is a child burial of this name at Ormskirk where the register is annotated "Roman Catholic".  I have not been able to find a baptism record for this child.

Does anyone know how I might be able to find where and when William was baptised?  Where do I look for records of baptisms and burials for Roman Catholics in the Ormskirk/Aughton area?

Many thanks in advance.