2nd Dragoons Scots Greys 1846-1874: any records for families of soldiers?

[Neale1961]

Mary?

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FREG1%2F003300%2F038

Sorry, can't open findmypast

Mary's birth 1866
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1866/03544/2304547.pdf

[mckha489]

Mary?

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FREG1%2F003300%2F038

Sorry, can't open findmypast

Mary's birth 1866
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/birth_returns/births_1866/03544/2304547.pdf

Oh good, I hadn’t worked my way through them all. Dinner intervened 😀. Thank you Neale1961
Added…I have gone back and added year and place for Andrew & Alexander possibles which is what the FindMyPast index gives,

[Neale1961]

Looks a possible for Alexander, also in Ireland.  Dublin 1860

https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FREG1%2F003291&parentid=BMD%2FOVS%2FREG1%2F003291%2F059

Alexander 1860 before civil registration of births in Ireland (started 1864)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68KX-VQYK

Andrew 1853 (like mckha489, cannot find on GRO index)
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:68K6-41SQ

[mckha489]

It is possible to order those GRO Armed Forces births in the usual way, you just have to enter the references from that index. But you have to pay the full price.

[Bella55]

Thank you so much mckha489 and Neale1961.   This is very much appreciated. 

I first started looking at family history a long time ago (pre-internet days) but have only recently become more serious about it.  One of the reasons I am enjoying it so much is that the 'roots' community are so helpful and ready to support each other.

Bella

[Bella55]

Mary?

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FREG1%2F003300%2F038

I agree that this is likely to be the missing Mary.  Another scribbled note I have is that William and Mary had children 'every 2 years' and currently I have a gap between Thomas in 1864 and George in 1869 so a Mary born in 1866 would fit with my grandmother's story.

thanks again, Bella

[mckha489]

Mary?

https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=BMD%2FOVS%2FREG1%2F003300%2F038

I agree that this is likely to be the missing Mary.  Another scribbled note I have is that William and Mary had children 'every 2 years' and currently I have a gap between Thomas in 1864 and George in 1869 so a Mary born in 1866 would fit with my grandmother's story.

thanks again, Bella

It definitely is. Neale found the Irish registration. Link posted earlier.

[Bella55]

Thanks Neale & mckha489 - I'd missed Neale's first post about Mary.  Now she can take her place in the family tree

I've also found Robert after remembering that his mother was Roman Catholic according to an asylum record.  Sure enough, I'd missed checking the Catholic baptisms on Scotland's People and found a record for him and brother Alexander both baptised at St Mary's Cathedral in Edinburgh in May 1863.

1863 WHITE, ROBERT (Catholic Registers Births and Baptisms MP 74 1 1 352 , Edinburgh, St Mary's Cathedral)

In the record, Robert is recorded as having been born in the Restalrig area of Edinburgh.  I believe that the 2nd Dragoons were based at Piershill Barracks close to Restalrig in 1863 so that would make sense but I need to check this.

Andrew is the son from whom I'm descended.  I have a reasonable amount of information about his later life but am missing info about his early years.  It must have been a disruptive life for them all following their father around different barracks.  Later in life, he stayed in the same area for many years so perhaps he had had enough of moving around!


Bella

[Bella55]

might this be Thomas?

WHITE,  -      EARLEY 
GRO Reference: 1864  M Quarter in ASTON  Volume 06D  Page 340

Letter to the editor  in June 1864 about the 2nd Dragoons leaving Birmingham
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/image-viewer?issue=BL%2F0000033%2F18640611&page=2&article=011&stringtohighlight=2nd+dragoons

added - although there are other White /Earley births Aston so it might be another couple.

UPDATE: I just received certificate ordered from GRO and whilst there was no name for the baby, the parents' names matched, the date of birth matched that recorded in the family document, and the father's occupation was listed as Sergeant, Scots Greys so I think we can be confident that this is the birth record for Thomas White. 

Other records have listed birthplace of siblings as 'barracks' in different places, however, the address on Thomas' certificate is 16 Count or Court?, Great Brook Street, Aston - not sure if wives & children were accommodated outside barracks.

Thanks again for the help,
Bella