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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Military pensions
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 00:22:24 +0000

In message <000201be6038$876daee0$>, Tom Cooper
<> writes
>Could anyone help as to what records I would request from the LDS re a
>Greenwich Pensioner - My gggthr Robert Fletcher was listed as a Corporal
>Royal Marines at his marriage in 1829 and on the 1851C for Plymoth St Andrew
>gave his occupation as a Greenwich Pensioner his age was 48. How can I find
>out more about him - is it possible to get his service records.
>Tom & Pearl Cooper

>www.flashbase.com/search/london
>
If the LDS have no films (just ask for Greeenwich POensioners records,
should ring a bell) then you will have to get someone to look up the
name at the Public Record Office at Kew. There is a downloadable
leaflet on their site, i think. The application for pension should
give his full naval career.
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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