Hello Everyone, Could one of our military experts advise if knowing a person was in the Royal Artillery during the 1870's to about 1891 would be enough to obtain a copy of the personnel/service records from the PRO at all? The person we are looking for is John Walter SHIRLEY who was a corporal and he managed to dodge the 1881 census and then was not at home in the 1891 census at Saltash, Cornwall where his family lived. We need to find the army records as we have been unable to find the marriage in the GRO indexes under any variation of the name for himself or his wife. We need to find either the marriage certificate or obtain the amry records to find out who the parents were for these two. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated, as I am fast running out of ideas. Regards Roger Shirley Cairns, Australia esanti@cairns.net.au or roger@hiddenforest.co.nz West Country Genealogy - (coming soon) Co-ordinator for Somerset, England GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~engsom/ Dorset, England GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~engdor/