I managed to stop off in Chester today and I was wondering about where my Great Grandmother was born. Her father was a soldier in the 68th Regiment and in Chester from about the 1st April 1846, he went to Ireland in August 1846 and died in February the following year. My Great Grandmother was born there in Jul 1846. I believe soldier's wives would often live in the barracks. The left hand building, now Regimental Museum of the Cheshire Regiment, is show on maps from around the but not the other central and right hand buildings. One map also shows a Military Hospital across the road where the present Purslove & Brown building is, I believe this used to be known as something like 'Army House'. Wondering if that is a Military Hospital from that period though not sure whether they would take in a soldier's wife giving birth. I wonder if anyone knows anything about these buildings, not hugely important but interesting to be able to place events like that. There is the Militia Barracks across the other side of the modern roundabout but he was in the regular army - I notice there is an old stone wall which looks as if it might have been part of the barracks. Martin Briscoe Fort William martin@mbriscoe.me.uk