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I checked that one and it says Nathaneal Messenger child. :-( Back to the drawing board!!!!

Yes, that's him! His second marriage says he was a bachelor but it also says 2nd regiment so it must be him. Is he telling porkies or was someone just confused?????

Thank you for your suggestion. I don't think that's him but I'll check it out. There was another family of Messenger at Bishopsgate - St Boltoph. I suspect they were related but haven't proved it...

Thank you for this - I'll certainly check it out. I didn't think he would be in Bermondsey. His first wife was Sarah and their children Sarah, John, Nathaniel and Richard and his second wife was...

Thank you, I did look there but the records don't go back far enough.

Thank you for replying. The army records don't exist that far back but his son Nathaniel was born in 1712 so would only have been 11 in 1723. I'm guessing that his wife died, although I have no...

Hi. I know that I'm clutching at straws but......

I'm looking for information on early army records.
I have an ancestor, Nathaniel Messenger, who married in the Fleet in 1703 and said that he...