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From: "Edward Crawford" <>
Subject: Re: Gordon Monumental Inscriptions
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2000 20:11:36 +0100


Many of these details exist in the printed Army Lists which run from 1760.
They apply only to officers. It may be possible to get further records in
the Public Record Office in Kew, London. Their Catalogues are on the web at
www.pro.gov.uk . They also have a bookshop where you can get orders for a
little book they sell, the name escapes, me about their military records.
The Society of Genealogists bookshop sells a little book called "My
Ancestors were in the British Army" which can be bought on line at their
website www.sig.org.uk . As a hint look at the catalogue and see if WO76
exist for the regiment in the relevant time period also WO25. But to get
full inmfoirmation get these two little books. If you know what you are
looking for it will take a researcher if you have to pay her, much less
time. Or you can come to sunny? London yourself!

If the officer stayed in the army up to 1828 or 9 whether of full or half
pay there are other excellent records.
Edward Crawford




-----Original Message-----
From: kimberley valentine <>
To: <>
Date: 02 October 2000 23:41
Subject: Re: Gordon Monumental Inscriptions


>Hello Edwards Family,
>
>These are from the "Caribbeana" by V.L.Oliver.
>Do you know how one might obtain a military record of someone during this
>early time frame? Do they even exist?
>
>Sincerely,
>Kim Valentine
>
>
>>Please could you tell me where you found these inscriptions? I wondered
if
>>they were on a list of some kind or if you just have the ones which you
>>list about the Gordon family's soldiers. I have no connection with the
>>Gordon family but am interested in the regiments that served in the West
>>Indies and in the 8th West Indian Regiment. I suspect that the relative I
>>am trying to trace - a Lieutenant Stewart Maxwell, and his friend
>>Lieutenant James Bouverie Ford - served in one of the earlier West Indian
>>regiments. Stewart left provision in his will written in 1816 for
>>purchasing a commission for his son John Maxwell, formerly of the 8th West
>>Indian Regiment. He must have lost his commission in this regiment when
>>the 8th was disbanded in 1815 at the end of the Napoleonic War. Thanks.
>
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