Hi Christine I know, daunting when there are so many! The Times Archive 'should' be available through your local library service. If you check their website they may already have subscribed to it and all you need is to access it through your library card. This you can do from home. HTH Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christine Benson" <christinebenson313@btinternet.com> To: "Andy Hedgcock" <andy701@blueyonder.co.uk>; <london@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 11:42 PM Subject: Re: [LON] Occupation of William BENSON > Hi Andy, > > Thanks for that. There are certainly plenty of William Benson's. I > couldn't find anything in the National Archives or the London Gazette but > there are so many entries in the Gazette I could not look through them > all. It may be useful at a later date. Since you have to subscribe to get > the Times archive I do not see any point at present. > > Thanks again, > > Christine > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Hedgcock > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 4:33 PM > To: Christine Benson ; Ruth Appleby ; jlester@btinternet.com ; > london@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [LON] Occupation of William BENSON > > There are plenty of William Bensons on the National Archives site. He > 'may' > be one of those. > Otherwise you can also try the Times Digital Archives, and the London > Gazette. > > HTH > Andy >