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by taffy1944
Sat Jun 19, 2010 6:55 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Forlorn Hope
Replies: 2
Views: 16915

Re: Forlorn Hope

Thanks very much for the answer.

Cheers
by taffy1944
Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:28 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibles
Replies: 7
Views: 26630

Re: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibl

I have recently come across a website by Randy Saylor that has a fair bit of information relating to land grants to about 80 discharged soldiers of the Glen. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~saylormowbray/index.html Once there click on Militia Records the scroll down to Military Set...
by taffy1944
Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:39 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Forlorn Hope
Replies: 2
Views: 16915

Forlorn Hope

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask these questions if not please move them to where they properly belong. (1.) Who or what are the "Forlorn Hope"?. I came across this term when reading a dispatch from Lt. General Gordon Drummond to Prevost dated Aug.16, 1814 following the attac...
by taffy1944
Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:53 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibles
Replies: 7
Views: 26630

Re: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibl

Yes I was a bit surprised by that reference although I have seen mention of various companies of the Regiment being deployed along side Grenadiers. For example in the attack on Sacketts Harbour, a company of the Glens were part of a detachment consisting of .."the Grenadier Company of the 100th...
by taffy1944
Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:58 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibles
Replies: 7
Views: 26630

Re: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibl

Based on the latest petition I received from which I copied the document in my latest post above I have also found proof that James Jr was involved in spying for the military as alluded to in Mr. Johnston's book. One document by Lt. Colonel Battersby states: "I Certifying that the above named J...
by taffy1944
Tue Jun 08, 2010 12:14 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibles
Replies: 7
Views: 26630

Re: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibl

I have been continuing my research on my ancestors, the Gerolamys, service in the the Glens and found that Upper Canada Land Petitions contain a wealth of information. The last petition I found absolutely confirms their 3 year service in particular James Gerolamy Jr. One of the documents is his disc...
by taffy1944
Wed Apr 28, 2010 6:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibles
Replies: 7
Views: 26630

Gerolamy service with the Glengary Light Ifantry Fencibles

Greetings, I'm the new guy on the block. For a number of years I've been doing historical research on my UEL ancestor James Gerolamy . Throughout this work I've had in the back of my mind a paragraph I read in Wm. Canniff's history about the settlement of the Bay of Quinte. The paragraph stated that...