Thanks, Tony. That should keep me busy for a while.
James Palfrey enlisted on 25 July 1799, according to Findmypast's Napoleonic War Records. He was a private in 1/4 regiment of foot. He was the son of Richard and Jane Palfrey, and was baptised in the parish of Llanfihangel Rhydithon, Radnorshire, in December 1779.
His father died in 1796, when James and his three siblings were all under 21. The siblings are each named in several relatives' wills, with James consistently described as a soldier. The last will with this pattern was dated 1812, but when their aunt died in 1827, the other three siblings were mentioned but not the soldier. This makes me think he probably died between 1812 and 1827.
His brother died in Essex in 1830. Both sisters were married before the aunt died in 1827, one in London and the other in Wales. I don't know what became of their widowed mother, Jane.
There is another James Palfrey, the son of another Richard, who was baptised in another parish in Radnorshire in 1786. He married Elizabeth Owens and had children, but his residence at the time of their baptism identifies him as part of a different branch.
