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Coldstream Guards
« on: Sunday 29 January 06 19:59 GMT (UK) »
My Great Grandfather was a private soldier in the 1st Battalion of the Coldstream Guards.He was at Eton when he married.Name John Meddings.Is there anywhere to look this up.Thanks.

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Re: Coldstream Guards
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 29 January 06 20:09 GMT (UK) »


Hi Seasider and welcome to RootsChat!

Can you give us some dates and information about your Great Grandfather ?
eg date and place of birth - which war etc!!

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Re: Coldstream Guards
« Reply #2 on: Monday 30 January 06 14:52 GMT (UK) »
Hi Annie
I know he was at Eton in Feb 1879.The age on his marraige certficate reads full.He was married to Anna,had a daughter Ada Lucy,but Ihave never found them on the 1881 census, and I have no information which war.On Ada Lucy's Birth cert.they lived at 36 Castle Lane Westminster.That was April 1879
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Re: Coldstream Guards
« Reply #3 on: Monday 30 January 06 15:34 GMT (UK) »
Coldstream guards were in Ireland in 1881 - then back to England in 1882.  Which is probably why you can't find them in 1881.  See: http://www.regiments.org/deploy/uk/guards/f2cg-1.htm

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/militaryhistory/army/step4.htm - you can try to find his discharge from the army at the National Archives.  How is he listed on Ada's wedding certificate?
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Re: Coldstream Guards
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 01 February 06 12:00 GMT (UK) »
Thanks Jarose for the information.On his own wedding cert, he was listed as an infantry soldier,then on his daughter's birth cert.Private soldier 1st. Battalion Coldstream Guards.
When his daughter Ada married in Oxford 1897 he was soldier[deceased].I have never found his death.
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