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Devon Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Look up request:Elizabeth Featherstonehaugh Leigh
« on: Wednesday 29 March 23 17:26 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks for responding. It is some years now since I first enquired about Elizabeth Featherstonhaugh Leigh and I have followed this family all around the world, to Portugal, Channel Islands, Australia and Newfoundland, through a divorce, bankruptcy and other intriguing twists and turns. Always interesting but research often frustrating! Rootschat was very helpful in those early days. Thank you again.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Guernsey Look up Request: Philip and Eliza Harriet Leigh
« on: Monday 15 October 18 16:18 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much indeed for this. Certainly gives us something to go on. I had almost given up hope of finding them....just goes to show that someone, somewhere will know!

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Armed Forces / Re: 1st King's Royal Rifles in Dublin?
« on: Monday 09 April 18 17:19 BST (UK)  »
Many thanks indeed. I've been reading up on the places he was stationed and also found that Fermoy (where he married) was a large Garrison town. So he was in the RSF (or it's former name 21st Regiment of Foot etc etc as stated on his marriage cert) when he married in 1887. Just need to find his RSF military service record now.

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Armed Forces / 1st King's Royal Rifles in Dublin?
« on: Monday 09 April 18 15:47 BST (UK)  »
My ancestor Sgt Frank Arthur Chester joined the 60th Rifles in 1880 in Winchester and after a campaign in Egypt was stationed in Dublin in 1882. I can't find any reference to Rifles in Dublin. I also don't know which Dublin barracks he would have been stationed at. Can anyone help please?

He was hospitalised twice in 1882, first for pneumonia then Phthesis, after which he was discharged, still a Private but in the 1st King's Rifles, to an address very close to Portobello barracks (as later known).
 
In 1887 Frank married in Fermoy, Cork, then in April 1888 appears in Dagshai, now Pakistan, as a Sgt. in the Royal Scots Fusiliers. Do military records exist for the RSF? Also if he had been discharged in 1883 on ill health grounds, how did he manage to join the RSF as a Sgt? He stayed with the RSF in India/Pakistan until after 1895.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Guernsey Look up Request: Philip and Eliza Harriet Leigh
« on: Monday 02 April 18 16:17 BST (UK)  »
Should have said the daughter's name was Jane.

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Re: Guernsey Look up Request: Philip and Eliza Harriet Leigh
« on: Monday 02 April 18 15:39 BST (UK)  »
Apologies for the considerable delay- out of the country for a few weeks. Many thanks for your help, I am very grateful. I have no record of a George Leigh in the family so that is a big surprise and something to investigate! Just recently found another Guernsey baptism mystery related to the same family. A Sarah Savage Featherstonhaugh Leigh married a Benjamin Baynton in Exeter and had a daughter there in 1811. She was baptised in Guernsey in 1811 on 10 July St Peter Port. I was wondering if the record showed any other information? Sarah and Benjamin went on to live on Jersey in St Helier.

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Devon Completed Lookup Requests / Re: Look up request:Elizabeth Featherstonehaugh Leigh
« on: Wednesday 24 January 18 12:56 GMT (UK)  »
Oh-that's a pity. I though the pro-forma recording format started around 1812 and possibly might have given some more clues.  At least I can stop looking!

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Channel Islands Lookup Requests / Guernsey Look up Request: Philip and Eliza Harriet Leigh
« on: Wednesday 24 January 18 12:51 GMT (UK)  »
I know Eliza Harriet Leigh was born in Guernsey in 1817 but I have not yet found a record. Can anyone help?
I suspect her brother Philip, born c 1812 was also born there and possibly their father Philip,(a merchant/sea captain from Dartmouth, Devon) was married in Guernsey too. The wider family had trading interests with Jersey/Newfoundland/Lisbon etc.
Have Guernsey records been put on- line and if so, where?

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Devon Completed Lookup Requests / Look up request:Elizabeth Featherstonehaugh Leigh
« on: Wednesday 24 January 18 12:37 GMT (UK)  »
I have found the transcript for Elizabeth Featherstonehaugh Leigh's marriage to Jonathan Steed Puddicombe, spelt Puddecombe (8 Jan 1814 Plymouth Charles the Martyr) but need to get her father's name and occupation, as (hopefully) given on the parish record. Despite other facsimile records being on-line- this is missing. Can anyone help with a look up please?

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