If you go to the catalogue at www.pro.gov.uk and search for James AND Kelly and the ref WO you get 81 hits. If you know your mans age you could narrow it down. One of them might be him.... Judy ---------- >From: S & A Liddle <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Subject: [SCT-ROX] Soldiers in Kelso 1809 >Date: 10, Wed Sep, 2003, 6:32 am > > Do any listers know if soldiers were stationed in Kelso around 1809. I have a > soldier, James Kelly, who married a local in 1809 in Kelso. For the next 12 years > he was at the Royal Artillery Barracks in Woolwich, London. The surname doesn't > seem to be common in Kelso at the time so I assume he was not a local. > > Simon >