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Hi Carole,

Sorry I haven't replied earlier but I haven't been online very much in the past 5 months.

Since my original post I have discovered Samuel Fee's army records which gives his year of birth as 1837 in Kilmore, County Monaghan, Ireland.  Unfortunately, the records did not provide any further information regarding his parents.  It did confirm that he married Sarah Warlow in Pembrokeshire, Wales.  Their marriage certificate gave his father's name as William Fee, a tailor, but that is all the information I have been at the moment.
It is possible that your Samuel Fee could be related - a cousin perhaps? Have you been able to go back further with his father Samuel Fee Senior's family?- does he have a William Fee as a brother who trained as a tailor???  I am 'clutching at straws' again!

Good luck with your research.
Kind regards,
Janice

Hello David & Elizabeth,

I've just returned from a trip to the USA with my family.  Imagine my surprise when I checked my emails to see that someone had responded to such an old post!
I'm afraid I don't know much about Samuel Fee's family other than the information obtained from his marriage certificate.  According to this his father's name was Wiilliam Fee who was a tailor.
That being said, as Fee doesn't appear to be a very common name (?) it is possible that your John Fee's father, Samuel, could be William Fee's brother??  Or possibly some other relation.  But as you say perhaps we are all "grasping at straws"...but it could be a possibility!
As I said in my original post I am relying on a "feeling" that Samuel Fee was born in what today is known as Northern Ireland.  Partly, I suppose because he was in the Royal Artillery.  I have no way of knowing what religion he was or what County he was born/baptised in.  Unfortunately, I haven't got any further information since my original post.
I wish you luck in your future research and who knows perhaps with a little bit of luck (& some hard work!!) we might all get lucky and find out for sure whether they are related or not.

Janice

Hello,

Does anyone have any information on the Huntingdoneshire Militia and why a private soldier in this militia would have been in Pembrokeshire, South Wales c. 1804.  His name was Joseph Morris and he married a local girl Jane Rees in this year, and remained in Pembrokeshire for the rest of his life.  He wasn't even born in Huntingdonshire, but Northamptonshire c. 1784.

I would be very grateful for any information about the militia or possible sources of information.

Thanks.

Janice

Hello,

I'm hoping someone might have come across Samuel Fee born about 1839 in Ireland.

 He was a gunner in the Royal Artillery when he got married in 1863 in Pembrokeshire, in Wales to Sarah Warlow.  According to the Certificate his father was a William Fee, a Tailor.  Their first child was born in Pembrokeshire and then the family moved to Dumbarton in Scotland where most of the other children were born.  They are there in the 1871 and 1881 Census.  By the time of the 1891 Census they had moved back to Wales and he had left the army and was down as a Pensioner, Greenwich.  Their youngest son was born in Pembrokeshire and his wife was a Widow by the 1901 Census.

Unfortunately, I only know that his place of birth was Ireland and that his father was William Fee who was a Tailor.  I have been unable to find him in the 1861 Census, so it is probable that he was still in Ireland on the Census night.  I have not been able to find his army records although I haven't exhausted all possible records yet!

I was hoping that someone in their research may have come across the surname Fee in Church records etc.  My instinct tells me he was born in what is now Northern Ireland, but of course I could be wrong. 

Thank you.

Janice