Hello, A real longshot this, because of the common-ness of the surname. Does anyone have access to Parish Records of Bishopstoke? I have just been given some very battered and almost illegible photocopies of family documents of a Robert SMITH. They are discharge papers from the Army in 1897. He was discharged in Capetown South Africa and intended place of residence looks like "Salti River Works". He was a wheelwright then but was a Gunner in the Royal Artillery in 1885 when first entered service. (Attested at Woolwich) He was born in Bishopstoke, and in May 1885 was 21and threequarters. My calculations, then, make him born August 1863. Before I follow up the service side of things, I would be grateful if anyone could look up the PRecords for me to see if his christening appears. This Robert SMITH was an ancestor of Gertrude Catherine STRATFORD born Pyrton Oxfordshire, whose son married into my SELLWOODs, but quite where Robert fits in I am trying to ascertain. Thanks Vicki Turner