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Hi I know this is a big ask but does anyone regularly visit Staffordshire records office who could do me a quick look up for me in the Burntwood Asylum Records

I am looking for a Harriet Clarke that was admitted around 1866 and stayed there until the 5th September 1871.

Unfortunately I have only two weeks left before the deadline on a book I am writing for an exhibition so I have no time to visit myself so any help given would be fantastic.

I live in Hertfordshire and regularly visit  Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire archives so I am happy to return the favour if I can.

Thank You

Ros x

Hi I wonder if someone might be able to look up Joseph Kirby, passenger list for New York 1850, he was born 1822 in St Neots Hunts, I believe he would have travelled to New York around 1850

I have found out from his Bethlem Hospital records that he was in America at least 2 years previous to his being admitted to the hospital. Someone has given me details of a Joseph Kirby being in Brooklyn and working as a carpenter in 1850.

I am hoping this could be my chappie and that it may contain a bit more information for me to link it all together

Thanks in advance for any help given

Ros

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Hi,

I wonder if anyone can help me. I am researching a soldier Robert Powell who enlisted at Gosmore the 25th March 1837 into the Grenadier Guards. From his records, Census documents and Pay and Muster books it seems he was with the 1st Batt 10 Co.....

in 1841 he is at the Tower of London and 1851 at Windsor Barracks.

It seems he was a good soldier until 1847 when he went absent for 6 days and ended up being imprisoned for 35 days at a district or provost? Prison.

He was discharged in 1852 with no pension or money for travel, he was described as being irregular but in every other way a good soldier.

I have lots of research into Roberts life after he was discharged but i have no understanding of what his life would of been like while in the Army.

- What would have been his duties, uniform
- would he have been involved in any wars between 1837-1852
- I know from later documents that Roberts had caught Syphilus ... were there any military hospitals at that time or if he was hospitalised would it have been a normal hospital.

any information given regarding the life of a grenadier guard would be brilliant or if u can point me in the right direction to finding info that would be great also.

Thanks in advance for any help given

Hi,
They didn't marry until 18th September 1916. Agnes had married a John Bloodworth in 1891 and I'm presuming they split up and she had to wait until he died before she could marry Alfred

I also found those army records and could find nothing for Millicent it is a mystery to me the nearest I could find was a Robert Alfred born to a Robert but don't think that works .

Thank you for your time looking

Ros

Hi Stan before the certificate starts on the outside I would of imagined it was in the margin of the original book

Ros