Hi everyone, Looking (by now desperately!) for the birth and parents of James Connell who said at his second marriage in Melbourne in 1854 that he was born about 1796 in Newtown, Scotland, to parents James Connell (labourer) and Margaret Dalziell. He enlisted in the 42nd Regiment in 1816, at which time his birthplace is given as Newton. He married Mary Shine in Adare, Co. Limerick, in 1822, and after being invalided out from the regiment in Gibraltar in 1830, left Leith for Hobart with wife and daughter Mary Ann in 1833. He next turns up as one of the first publicans in Melbourne in early 1837. He had only the one surviving child but may have had a brother John, also a Melbourne publican. James went to a reunion of 5 Waterloo veterans in Melbourne, and there are a James and John Connell who served in the 92nd Regiment at Waterloo, but the Chelsea Pensioner records show only that James was in the 42nd. Can anyone help please? Helen Australia