I now have back my GGGF's (Robert Thompson)marriage certificate to his second wife Eliza in 1863. He was born in about 1802 and is aged 61 and it says that Peter Thompson was his father and he is by then deceased. I don't have the faintest idea where Peter was born or where, but I have found his marriage to an Isabella Curry in 1788 Saint Bees, Cumberland, England, so I am guessing that he would have had to have been born around 1768.
I have found the only Peter Thompson on the Waterloo Medal Roll. This Peter Thompson was of the 1st Bn. 71st Regiment of Light Infantry - Capt Campbell's company and he was a Serjeant.
As I understand it in those days to be an officer you had to buy your commission, therefore the family had to have had money. Robert and his sister Isabella were both born in Chelsea (1802 and 1808). The question I am asking is where did Peter come from and how do I go about finding one way or another whether his Peter and the marriage Peter are one and the same.
I have found the only Peter Thompson on the Waterloo Medal Roll. This Peter Thompson was of the 1st Bn. 71st Regiment of Light Infantry - Capt Campbell's company and he was a Serjeant.
As I understand it in those days to be an officer you had to buy your commission, therefore the family had to have had money. Robert and his sister Isabella were both born in Chelsea (1802 and 1808). The question I am asking is where did Peter come from and how do I go about finding one way or another whether his Peter and the marriage Peter are one and the same.
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