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Hello Lynette
I think that you're going to be hard put to it to find a list of 'ordinary' soldiers serving with the British Auxiliary Legion, I'm afraid.There are some fragmented lists of officers and a few non-comms who are mentioned for particular reasons.  The Legion was a vast organisation, fighting in the First Carlist Wars on different fronts. The first war was dated 1835 - 1838.  There is an excellent book by Edward M. Brett 'The British Auxiliary Legion in the First Carlist War 1835-1838'. You may find this useful.
I have a number of research documents relating to this conflict and will continue to look through them for you and get back to you with what I can find. If you would like any further help with your research, times, dates, places, units involved etc, don't hesitate to get in touch. No charge!! I just enjoy it.
Kind regards. Adrian

I'd like to join in this fascinating chat!  I've been researching the Abbey family and the  Russian connection.  My research has mostly been based on Alexander Walter Abbey, a mining engineer who was murdered in Spain.  There seem to be some common links with what you have all found, but here's my contribution, for comment etc.  By the way, I looked on the OShea site, but found it very complicated.
Here's a bit more on the family.

I found a line back to a Mary Abbey, born in 1801.  I can't find a spouse for her, but she had six children: Thomas 1828; John Henry 1830; Elizabeth 1834; Mary Ann 1836; Robert 1838 and Francis 1841.

All were born in Lockwood, Yorkshire with the exception of John Henry who was born in Selby.

 He went to Russia! 

He married - I'm not sure who - and had two sons: John William 1850 and Walter 1852.  Both were born in Russia.

John William: again, I'm not sure who he married, but his five children were born in Russia. George 1888; Edward 1889; Elsie Emma 1890; Lucy Alice ?; Alexander Walter 1892 and Alfred Henry 1895.

It's interesting that they were all back in England in 1911. 

More details on George:

George and Elizabeth went to Rhodesia and then to South Africa. They had two sons,  Edward John Abbey 1917-1993 and Desmond 1920-1955.
Edward John had two children who are still living -Lynne Abbey and John Scotson Abbey, but I haven't any more on them at the moment.



Edward is a bit of a mystery (another one).  He died in Brooklyn, New York.  I can't find him anywhere, with the correct roots. The only Edward that keeps cropping up is a ship's steward sailing between Europe, South and North America and a variety of ships over the years.

Elsie Emma died in Sutton Coldfield in 1961, Lucy Alice in Maryland in 1976 and Alfred Henry in Exeter in 1971.

I hope that this will be interesting!

This is brilliant - thank you both so much for your help!

Pennie: You found the missing piece in the (ongoing) puzzle: I hadn't realised that Gladys had a second marriage. As I wrote earlier, I have a tree for the Phipps/Nicholls going from 1761 to the present, but it's always those 'little' pieces that can elude one - possibly through looking too hard!

Searching the Phipps' line has taken me to the battlefields and cemeteries of WW1 to research Frank Phipps and to Madrid and the British Cemetery there to follow Ida May Phipps.  The British Cemetery is a fascinating place - take a look; you can link through Google. Or www.britishcemeterymadrid.com. I do a fair amount of research for them.

I don't think I'm going to be able to find any more about the connection between Lucie and Ida. Lucie was Ida's aunt and I think that they nursed together for private employers.  Unfortunately there's no-one left to provide any more oral history.

So many thanks once again
Kind regards
Adrian

I'm trying to trace any relatives of LUCIE LAVINIA NICHOLLS.  She was born in Birmingham in 1870, worked as a nurse, and died in Cowley Road Hospital, Oxford on 7 July 1955.  The informant for her Death Certificate was her niece G. C. PAYNE of Rockley, Cumnor, Oxford.  She had close family ties with the PHIPPS family of Cowley - FREDERICK PHIPPS was licensee of the Nelson Inn and also had a market garden.  LUCIE was unmarried.
I believe that LUCIE may have spent some time in SPAIN, around the early 1920s as she is Informant on the Death Certificate of IDA MAY PHIPPS who died of cholera while nursing in Madrid in 1921.
Lasting gratitude for any help! 

Hi Kevin:  Could you supply a little more information?  Date of birth if you have it, place of birth, where he lived, anything at all about his parents/life etc., etc.

Tall order, if you only have a portrait!

Would be good to see his portrait, too.

I'll see what I can come up with.

Regards

Adrian