Lilian, Very few (if any) militiamen would have qualified for a pension. Generally, military pensions only went to soldiers of regular line regiments, and they had to serve something like 25 years to be eligible. If your GGGF was in a line regiment and qualified for a pension, you should be able to find out quite a lot at the Public Record Office in Kew. However, you would really have to know which regiment he served in. The PRO has a computerised index with details of men discharged from the British Army, but the work of indexing is only part complete (it must be a massive task), so if you don't already know which regiment he was in, and if he has already been indexed, you could find out his regiment and then trace all sorts of informative documents. Regards, Ken Mathieson, Uddingston, Lanarkshire -----Original Message----- From: Lilian Campbell <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Date: 06 November 2001 01:09 Subject: [RossGen] Ross-shire Militia > >I too would be interested in info about the availability of records. I'm >trying to track info about my great-great grandfather Hugh Fraser. On >his son William's marriage certificate (1863) Hugh is said to have been >a Military Pensioner, deceased. They lived in the Parish of Urquhart and >Logie Wester. > >Lilian > > >==== ROSSGEN Mailing List ==== >To remove your email address from this list, visit this url: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cheps/maillist.htm > >