Hi Phillip, Thank you for the information you found on John Bendall. It grows more interesting. As he was discharged in 1817 aged 48, that could make his birth around 1769. Now a few weeks ago I printed off all the deaths for Bendalls post 1837 from Bath BMD site from the area covering Bathwick, Walcot and Lyncombe& Widcombe, the areas my family were living in. There were 22 of them, 15 I tied down immediately to my family. Which left 7 unaccounted for. 3 men and five women. One of them was a John Bendall who died aged 78 in 1847. I was unable to find him in the 1841 census for the area, and wonder now if he was living in Hampshire. I think I shall have to send off for his death certificate, to see what information I can get from that. Many thanks again to all who offered ideas and help. Pauline
Pauline Bear in mind that ages were not that important in those days.? The Army would write whatever he told them; they sometimes got it right. Philip -----Original Message----- From: Paulinebarton9@aol.com To: ENG-SOMERSET@rootsweb.com Sent: Wed, 28 May 2008 9:24 Subject: [ENG-SOM] John BENDALL Hi Phillip, Thank you for the information you found on John Bendall. It grows more interesting. As he was discharged in 1817 aged 48, that could make his birth around 1769. Now a few weeks ago I printed off all the deaths for Bendalls post 1837 from Bath BMD site from the area covering Bathwick, Walcot and Lyncombe& Widcombe, the areas my family were living in. There were 22 of them, 15 I tied down immediately to my family. Which left 7 unaccounted for. 3 men and five women. One of them was a John Bendall who died aged 78 in 1847. I was unable to find him in the 1841 census for the area, and wonder now if he was living in Hampshire. I think I shall have to send off for his death certificate, to see what information I can get from that. Many thanks again to all who offered ideas and help. Pauline ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message