just seen your reply to my Tackaberry query It's ages since Ihave been on Roots site. Martha and her husband William Ashfield were my Ggrandparents. My Granfather was thier son Henry Robert. Do you know anything about thier first child William Edward born in Ireland when they were waiting passage to South Africa. Apparently he joined the 73rd too. On the 1861 census he is in barracks in Chatham ,but I can find no further record of him. Do you know anything about Edward Tackaberrys parents, or what happened to his wife Mary. Aftwer his discharge from the 73rd I can find no futher trace of him.
nancyt