"Terry Silcock" terry.silcock@btinternet.com wrote : >Are details of members of the Coldstream Guards held at TNA, Kew or are >there separate archives of this regiment. I believe the records are held at their HQ and getting information is far from easy. You have to write (snail mail) to : Coldstream Guards Regimental Headquarters Wellington Barracks Birdcage Walk London SW1E 6HQ *BUT* you must provide a regimental number. Details of how to ask, what you have to provide and the costs, are given at the website of one of the district branches of the Coldstream Guards Association at http://www.coldstreamguards-boro.org/page3bhtm.htm They do not accept e-mail or telephone enquiries. > My GGfather: John Carr SCOTTS was recorded as a corporal Cornet player > with > the Coldstreanm Guards band, but was living in residential accommodation > in > Westminster with his family during the 1861 and 1871 census. Would thsi > be > normal practice whilst the band was based in London? Can't say if it was the norm but a distant cousin of my own was a clarinetist in the band ca 1890, and he seems to have lived at the Wellington Barracks prior to his marriage; afterwards he lived with his wife and children in Battersea, so perhaps it was only the unmarried ones who lived in barracks ? John B Leic., Eng