I have just made a small chip in a very old brickwall in my tree This family are really complex as they and their cousins all intermarry through the generations, but I've been unable to sort out the start of the web because I didn't know the names of the children of the following couple:
Robert McCreary (1001 different spellings possible!) married my relative Susanna Maynard in 1759 at St Paul's Bedford. I have no idea of his age (she was 21) but in the marriage register he was recorded as a Sergent in His Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot. I knew from a will that by 1765 they had four sons but their names were not stated!
Skip forward to 1793 and I've just found what I believe to be Robert's burial! I had already seen a PCC will for a Robert McCrery with occ "gentleman", but as this man was "of Beaminster in Dorset" (my family were Bedfordshire and London) I had thought this will was probably a red-herring and had ignored it for about five years! However, I've just found the burial record in Beaminster to match the will, which states the "gentleman" to be a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Foot
I've just bought the will. The executors are people from Bedford so that's a hopeful link, but though Robert's wife is alive she isn't given a name and I can't find any further burials in Dorset to help me :( In the will Robert just says he hasn't made provision for her because, as the widow of an officer, she will get a pension!
At last I have the names of two sons, one of which is a name I'd been hoping for - the other one is "beyond the seas of this Kingdom" which isn't all that helpful!
Soooo........where would I need to look to find Robert McCreary's army record?
What family information might I hope to find, if any?
Robert McCreary (1001 different spellings possible!) married my relative Susanna Maynard in 1759 at St Paul's Bedford. I have no idea of his age (she was 21) but in the marriage register he was recorded as a Sergent in His Majesty's 14th Regiment of Foot. I knew from a will that by 1765 they had four sons but their names were not stated!
Skip forward to 1793 and I've just found what I believe to be Robert's burial! I had already seen a PCC will for a Robert McCrery with occ "gentleman", but as this man was "of Beaminster in Dorset" (my family were Bedfordshire and London) I had thought this will was probably a red-herring and had ignored it for about five years! However, I've just found the burial record in Beaminster to match the will, which states the "gentleman" to be a Lieutenant in the Regiment of Foot
I've just bought the will. The executors are people from Bedford so that's a hopeful link, but though Robert's wife is alive she isn't given a name and I can't find any further burials in Dorset to help me :( In the will Robert just says he hasn't made provision for her because, as the widow of an officer, she will get a pension!
At last I have the names of two sons, one of which is a name I'd been hoping for - the other one is "beyond the seas of this Kingdom" which isn't all that helpful!
Soooo........where would I need to look to find Robert McCreary's army record?
What family information might I hope to find, if any?
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