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Hi Soos,

Yes, they were formed in Scotland, this link should help with the history of the regiment....

http://www.coghlan.co.uk/42nd_Highlanders_part1.htm

Hope that helps.  There are a few people on here who will be able to answer any questions you have if you put them on the Armed Forces board.

Good lucl

Daff

Hi Stephen,

That might be it then.  I just looked at mine, I have a Scottish Soldier with a son born at Dover Castle in 1875, then a son born in Dublin in 1879 so he got about a bit with the Black Watch.  Hope you can find her birth now.

Good luck

Daff

I was really pleased to see the number of children born and number still living, I think it will be really useful.

Also, gah, both the transcript and the original are useful, it depends how much you know your family.

The original is useful as I said above, for spotting children who have been born and died since the last census, also it is brilliant to see the original householder's writing.  The originals are the form filled in by the householder so you only get the one family, no neighbours like you can see for aother census.

If your ancestor was in an institution for the census then the transcript is more useful as it has the name and address of the institution, there is no space for it on the original form and it appeared on the other side!  I found this out after downloading an original, then the next one in the hope of finding the address, so then tried the transcript - I bet I am not the only one to have done this!

It has been really interesting and although a bit expensive I am glad I have looked and not waited as I have solved a couple of little mysteries.

Have fun.

Daff

Oh yes, it saves too.

Hi Scrimnet,

I was just looking at this thread and had to call my daughter to have a look.  On the third photo, in the background is a weapon rack which will have had her spear on it!  She is a c15th re-enactor and was at Detling too, camping just behind you.  She has just shown me a photo with perhaps your jeep in it!  It is one of her favourite weekends.  Small world...

Daff

Hi km and Heysie,

Thank you for your posts.

The mothers are all laundress/washerwoman in each census going back to 1861 and each one has no father on the birth certs - one in 1857, one in 1875 and one in 1896.  They all have the surname Wakefield.  I just wondered if any of the fathers perhaps came from 'The Big House' perhaps, what ever it is!  This could all be coincidence and I could be leading you all up the garden path with this, I have no idea!!  Sorry.

And casting apersions on the well-to-do of Woolton!

Daff