John Weston Marine

[madgarry]

John Weston born Bishampton Worcestershire 1826,son of William and Sarah, on the 1861 census I have found him listed as jno Weston and resident in the Royal marines garrison infirmary Woolwich any more info on him would be appreciated.

[crimea1854]

The NA Catalogue does list the Attestation papers for a John Weston who looks as if he could be your man:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-5505972&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CJOHN%2CWESTON&accessmethod=0

Martin

[madgarry]

The NA Catalogue does list the Attestation papers for a John Weston who looks as if he could be your man:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-5505972&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CJOHN%2CWESTON&accessmethod=0

Martin What are attestation papers

[Geoffers]

What are attestation papers

When someone enlisted in the armed forces a series of questions were asked - name, age, birthplace, occupation, whether married, whether an apprentice, term willing to serve, etc, etc. The recruit then declared the answers to be true. Further information can be found on this research guide - Royal Marines: other ranks service records (http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/RdLeaflet.asp?sLeafletID=56).

[Peter Goodey]

What are attestation papers?

Here's an answer you can use again and again.

Martin provided this National Archives catalogue reference -

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-5505972&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CJOHN%2CWESTON&accessmethod=0

Follow that through to the catalogue entry and then go to the top level catalogue entry for the series ie look at the line that reads "ADM 157 Admiralty: Royal Marines: Attestation Forms" and click on "ADM 157"

Then select the Full Details tab and you should be here -

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=260&CATLN=3&Highlight=&FullDetails=True

Scroll down the page and read the useful information about the series. :)

[This approach works for other series as well]

[madgarry]

Here's an answer you can use again and again.

Martin provided this National Archives catalogue reference -

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=-5505972&CATLN=7&Highlight=%2CJOHN%2CWESTON&accessmethod=0

Follow that through to the catalogue entry and then go to the top level catalogue entry for the series ie look at the line that reads "ADM 157 Admiralty: Royal Marines: Attestation Forms" and click on "ADM 157"

Then select the Full Details tab and you should be here -

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATID=260&CATLN=3&Highlight=&FullDetails=True

Scroll down the page and read the useful information about the series. :)

[This approach works for other series as well] cheers