Hi Everyone, I have been trying to track down a particular relative of mine for a while and was wondering if anyone here might be able to suggest where to look next. George Cropp Joined the 55th Foot around 1818 and spent the vast majority of his time with the regt. in the Madras region. He married Mary Cooper in 1834 and they had at least 4 children that I can find record of, Thomas, Benjamin, James and Joseph (my gg grandfather). In August 1843 he was killed fighting in Hong Kong. Most of the information I have has come from BMD records on findmypast, familysearch and the like, and the military details all come from the WO12 pay records for the 55th at the National Archive. I could not find any pension record in WO97, which was explained when I finally found the record of his death during the first opium war. The questions I am trying to answer are: 1: I know he was recruited while the 55th was stationed in the channel islands, and from the pay records we know that there were recruiters deployed along the south coast of england, but is there any way of finding out where he was recruited, and therefore where he was from? 2: I have a vague recollection of spotting a passport application record or something similar for a Mary Cooper travelling out with the 55th Foot but I was being useless and did not record it and cannot work out where I might have seen it. It would have been an online resource, and most probably a free one. Can anyone suggest where I might have seen this, or did I just dream it? 3: When George dies in Hong Kong, his family remain on in India, but as he does not retire from the army he does not have a record in WO97. Is there anywhere else I might find army records for him? 4: I want to know what happened to Mary his wife. All I have for her so far are the marriage certificate, and a birth certificate for their son Joseph Cropp. Neither of these offer any useful information about her other than her maiden name being Cooper. I have dreamt up this fantastic tale about Her being the daughter of another soldier in the regt. but I don't have any documentary evidence for this, other than my possibly imagined travel application. 5: What happened to Mary Cooper, her children certainly remain in India, and go on to have families there, but I cannot find any record of what happens to her. If anyone can shed any light on either of these two people I wild be most grateful. Thanks, Stephen -- Stephen Cropp Stephen@Cropp.co.uk