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Well look at that, he was a Quaker. Funny, you don't think of Scots as Quakers but maybe he converted after living in Yorkshire. I wonder if I'd be able to find his burial place. I've just read a little about Quakers and apparently they don't typically use tombstones to mark their burial place so th...

Wow thank you all very much for looking into this so diligently. I have since been to the National Archives (I live in London so it's not much trouble) and I have had a look at his discharge papers. What a fantastic document this turned out to be. It even gives me his height, eye colour, and all sor...

Hello all. I am new here and hoping to benefit from the community's collective expertise. I have been researching a certain ancestor of mine named Andrew Garven. He has been very difficult to trace through time and upon discovering his daughter's 1840 parish marriage record I was delighted to see th...