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    Bennett - Mordecai c 1771

    My Great Great Great Grandfather was born around 1771 in Birmingham. He was a Labourer and no doubt yearning for adventure and possibly a different sort of life, and so aged 18 and measuring 5ft and 4inches, Mordecai enlisted in the St. Helena Infantry on 17th October 1789. The Regiment’s new...
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