Thanks Elizabeth. It's so much easier now I know I'm looking for Edwin Griffiths rather than just somebody Griffiths. And yes, I'll get his will. Susan On 09/09/2010 17:29, elizabeth howard wrote: > Hi, glad you are pleased........you can also go on the London > Gazette and just put in Edwin Griffiths , and you will be able to chase him > right through his career from his start in 1813 ........and googling 48th > and 96th regts shows that both regts were for a time in Australia , can`t > now remember which , think it was the 48th was in Australasia from 1817 - > 1824...........and you could get the Colonel`s will from the York Probate > office as you know his date of death , I think they still charge £5 , google > York probate office for all post 1858 wills . > > > > > life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Susan Morris"<susan.fh@cosmic-colour.co.uk> > To:<eng-hertfordshire@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2010 5:08 PM > Subject: Re: [HRT] Baptismal look up please, Griffiths > > >> Thank you both Elizabeth and Gay. I'm so grateful to you both. >> >> I'm in Cambridge, so I can go and check out the baptismal records for >> Pampisford, and Hertford is about 50 miles away, so I can do the same >> there. With the price of petrol, I'd hesitated to make a 100 miles >> journey without more proof that Emily was born in Cheshunt. >> >> I had begun to think the elusive Colonel Griffiths was a myth. I had >> found a 96th Foot Regiment which listed two Griffiths, both with the >> initials E but no details of rank. >> >> I went away from the computer thoroughly depressed because since I wrote >> my appeal for help to the list, I'd received the marriage certificate >> from Tasmania and, unlike UK ones, it gave no details of the fathers of >> the bride and groom. It showed the groom to be a Capt in 96th Foot >> (which I knew) and Emily Griffiths to be a free spinister, something we >> don't see on the UK certificates. But then, Tasmania was a penal colony >> and it was on a page with three other marriages, all of which showed the >> women to be prisoners marrying free men. Apart from the fact that she >> was a free woman, there was nothing to show that Emily was the daughter >> of one of the officers. >> >> I came back to the computer to find your detailed responses. Wow, what a >> lot to work my way through! >> >> I had searched the IGI but, as I wrote on the Wiltshire list recently in >> response to someone who had searched for info without results and was >> surprised that someone else had found what she was looking for, I'm >> convinced that when we search on the IGI, we only see some of that huge >> database and it is always worth looking again. >> >> I've used the google books Officers of the Army lists before, with good >> results, but nothing came up on my search for Griffiths (with no first >> name) and 96th Foot. >> >> Again, many thanks. >> >> Susan >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> Hertfordshire Surnames List >> >> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/hertford.html >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ENG-HERTFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > > Hertfordshire Surnames List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/hertford.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-HERTFORDSHIRE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message