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Hello Margaret, Thank You for your advice. This is a problem that I have toyed with on & off for many years. The letter to the Home Office mentions an earlier letter but I have been unable to find any trace of it. The obituary as you say is vague = no regiment, no mothers name, no mother's brother's...

May I beg any advice to help solve my problem Ennis ancestors ? Known facts :- PETER PAUL HARE O'HENNESSY born between 1800 & 1810 in Ennis Co. Clare. source = 1841/51/61/71/81 UK census. His obituary in 1887 states "left Ireland to join the army & was mentioned for a commission on the field at Wate...