Hi Adele, My Cavan ancestor served in the 88th Regiment of Foot, and if your ancestor also served in the British Army, you just may have hit upon a great source of information. I hired a researcher who specialized in these records, and because of that investment, I was able to learn the townland he was born in... something I had no idea about. Pension payout records directed me to the various places he lived & I was able to find the baptism records for several of his children. Without those pension records, I would have been clueless! And, no, it was not uncommon for Irish to join the British Army. Often, it was the only paying job a young man could get, and there were entire regiments made up of Irish despite the fact that few men wanted to "take the King's shilling". Kathy McCabe -----Original Message----- >From: irl-cavan-request@rootsweb.com >Sent: Oct 26, 2008 12:00 AM >To: irl-cavan@rootsweb.com >Subject: IRL-CAVAN Digest, Vol 3, Issue 192 > > > >Today's Topics: > > 1. Belturbet (Adele) > 2. 1926 Irish census -- easy to sign petition site (Nancy & Ted) > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Message: 1 >Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:18:23 +1300 >From: "Adele" <PentonyGraham@xtra.co.nz> >Subject: [IRL-CAVAN] Belturbet >To: <IRL-CAVAN@rootsweb.com> >Message-ID: <53BF1FE5A6324854BC55347E16877177@IBMKEHH39K> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >Finally met the folk for Mc Partland this weekend.. we now are under the impression, that perhaps George Mc Partland wasnt Roman Catholic when he first came to New Zealand, but married a Roman Catholic and perhaps then changed his religion. As another idea was that as he served with 49th Foot Regiment, this is an English Regiment, would this have been against the grain so to speak for him to be with them? > >Thank you... any ideas? > > >Adele Pentony-Graham >Carterton District Early Settlers Researcher >Carterton Cemetery Clareville Taphophile Group > > >------------------------------