Found a death notice from Tendering, circa 1865, for a Lieut Vesey 'late of the 76th'. Can anyone help shed light on the '76th' for me. Is this a renown 18thC Essex regiment? David Vesey Canada

Hi David, Try Googling "76th Regiment of Foot" and look at the Wikipedia entry. HTH Charles charles.henrywood@btinternet.com (Always interested in any HONEYWOOD/HONYWOOD reference) ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Vesey" <veseybrown@sympatico.ca> To: <ESSEX-UK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 2:17 AM Subject: [Ess] Tendering reference > Found a death notice from Tendering, circa 1865, for a Lieut Vesey > 'late of the 76th'. > > Can anyone help shed light on the '76th' for me. > Is this a renown 18thC Essex regiment? > > David Vesey > Canada > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >