Hello, As a new member of the list I am researching my BREW family connections. Am hoping someone can help with two entries which I have obtained from both the 1841 and 1851 census transcripts. In both my BREW ancestors, including husband wife and son have Army connections. In particular the husband is listed with the occupation of " Mayor Spanish Servicer". I would love to find out what this Army connection was, I do wonder if the word "Mayor" should in fact read " Major", but if anyone can assist in any way or give me another link to follow up I would be most grateful. Possible conection with the Middlesex Militia, but this is only a guess on my part. >From Brian Martin,Corby, Northants. _________________________________________________________________ Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one place. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/

Hi Brian I'm happy to try and help, though you may want to note for future reference that Uxbridge is in Middlesex, not Surrey. The image of the 1851 census confirms you suspicion about William Snr's occupation. It reads "Major Spanish Service Lieu [Lieutenant] Half Pay Army" The second half of this description has been continued onto the line below (where Susan's occupation would normally appear). This suggests to me that he was part of the "British Foreign Legion in Spain" which was raised in 1835. For details, go to http://yourarchives.nationalarchives.gov.uk and put Foreign Legion in Spain in the search box. William Jnr seems to have been a regular soldier, and TNA has his pension records. Normally, one can purchase digital copies of the relevant documents online, but there may be a problem at the moment, because this series of records is currently undergoing digitisation (and your chap doesn't seem to have been done yet!) and the files may not be available. Hope this helps Caroline > > Hello, > > > > As a new member of the list I am researching my BREW family > connections. Am hoping someone can help with two entries which I have > obtained from both the 1841 and 1851 census transcripts. In both my > BREW ancestors, including husband wife and son have Army connections. > In particular the husband is listed with the occupation of " Mayor > Spanish Servicer". I would love to find out what this Army connection > was, I do wonder if the word "Mayor" should in fact read " Major", but > if anyone can assist in any way or give me another link to follow up I > would be most grateful. Possible conection with the Middlesex Militia, > but this is only a guess on my part. > > > > >From Brian Martin,Corby, Northants. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Access your other email accounts and manage all your email from one > place. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ > *************************************** > Send your List messages using **PLAIN TEXT** and always **TRIM AWAY** > superfluous old messages in replies. > > List Admin can be contacted at: Eng-Surrey-admin@rootsweb.com. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-SURREY- > request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message