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It is ALL of value Jacqueline, I have taken a "hard copy" of the whole of this post , and after breakfast( it's 9am in Australia) I'll sit down and write it all out and see what fits & what will have to be looked at harder Every little bit of info: is great as You all have found things I didn't Thanks again to ALL
Sheila :-)

That's OK then................have a nice day, as the saying goes, although it's not one I use as a matter of course

I understand, here we say G'day , but like you I don't. ALL information is valuable. As I found out . I was looking for my birth mother , and there were 3 ladies with the same name born within a week of each other in the same year. it cost a lot of money to get GRO records to find the right 1 Which I did ,in the end so I learnt a valuable lesson Sheila

As there seems to be no sight of Charles after the 1871 census, it might be possible that he fought and died in the first Boer war - 1880/1881

How can we find out Gins , Because his line of Souters live in South Africa now Sheila Sorry it's past 11 pm so am of to bed

Hi Sheila

In answer to your question, I really don't know :-(

On a Google search there does appear to be some sites that have some listings of the 188/1881 campaign and one site had a specialist that you could email

I had a peek at this thread yesterday because I have Souters in my tree ... husband of a sister of a brother-in-law :-) ... but they were very wealthy Souters ... unlike my family their in-law married into ...

so Sheila you say his line of Souters live in SA, presumably this doesn't mean descendants of him, rather Souters related to or descended from his father ...?

I did a search at

http://www.national.archsrch.gov.za/sm300cv/smws/sm300dl
'All Archives Repositories and National Registers of non-public records'

but there is nothing for Charles Souter

Kevin Asplin
http://www.britishmedals.us/
http://www.britishmedals.us/kevin/intro.html
has a great deal of info about the 2nd Anglo-Afghan War, but nothing there about the 1st. However, he is very helpful and would probably be able to tell you whether anything is accessible.

Good Morning Gins & JoonieCloonie Thank you for finding this out for me , and your right , it is a brother . I will go and check just to be sure

Thanks again

Sheilafromdownunder
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