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Waterloo soldier from Prussia need help
« on: Sunday 28 October 18 01:52 GMT (UK) »
I am trying to find a list or source to find a relative of mine that supposedly fought at Waterloo before coming over to America.  His name was John William Honenbrink and was Prussian.  Thanks for any help.

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Re: Waterloo soldier from Prussia need help
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 28 October 18 02:04 GMT (UK) »
Have you got a birth date?

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Re: Waterloo soldier from Prussia need help
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 28 October 18 03:22 GMT (UK) »
Yes, thanks.  He was born 1791 in Lower Saxony and immigrated in 1842.  Died in Ohio in 1882.
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Re: Waterloo soldier from Prussia need help
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 28 October 18 08:37 GMT (UK) »
Do you know his place of birth. If a village, nearest recognisable town or city. He may have been KGL, Hanoverian evaders that escaped French occupation in Napoleonic wars. KGL were at Waterloo and a few Hanoverian regiments, reconstituted in 1814. 
Griffiths Llandogo, Mitcheltroy, Mon. and Whitchurch Here (Also Edwards),  18th C., Griffiths FoD 19th Century.

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Re: Waterloo soldier from Prussia need help
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 28 October 18 11:33 GMT (UK) »
I do not have his place of birth.

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Re: Waterloo soldier from Prussia need help
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 28 October 18 12:00 GMT (UK) »
OK, what I wrote may help alert possibility of Kings German Legion which I guess feature in British military records.
Griffiths Llandogo, Mitcheltroy, Mon. and Whitchurch Here (Also Edwards),  18th C., Griffiths FoD 19th Century.
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