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From: "Don Fraser" <>
Subject: [SFHG] Chelsea Pensioners
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 23:42:11 -0000
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Hello list,
I have a ancestor who is shown in the 1851 census for Dumfries, Scotland as being a Chelsea Pensioner. I have always been under the impression that to be a Chelsea Pensioner you had to stay in the Royal Chelsea Hospital. He could possibly have been 'on leave' when the census was taken, but I doubt it due to the distance involved. I have seen several other pensioners in various censuses and think perhaps that they may have been wounded in action, incapacitated and were given a pension from the hospital.
All thoughts gratefully received.
Don Fraser 6605

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