Hi again Jill, Samuel NELSON was with the Kings 8th Regiment for 6 years, then the Royal Newfoundland's Company Regiment for 6 months. The King's Regiment (Liverpool) formed 1751 as the 8th (King's) Regiment of Foot -1839-1841 garrisoned at Halifax Windsor Annopolis and Cape Breton in Nova Scotia; Samuel's convict records show he was absent for three years and then returned to Newfoundland where he was apprehended - http://foundersandsurvivors.org/pubsearch/convict/chain/ai52532 http://peter.mackenzie.org/history/hist53A.htm http://peter.mackenzie.org/history/hist534.htm http://ngb.chebucto.org/NFREG/index1.shtml Cheers Trish Nowra NSW > I have had no luck in finding a number for Samuel Nelson but he was born > in 1819 and tried in 1843 so he misses out in the Napoleon wars? drats > Thankyou again