Alexander FORBES

1829 -

• Name	Alexander FORBES  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	1829	Scotland   [1, 3]
  Gender	Male
  1851 Survey Company	1851	Ripon, Yorkshire, England   [2]
  	Private, 14th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners
  1851 Census	30 Mar 1851	Dyer Lane, St Mary, Beverley, Yorkshire, England   [1, 3]
  	Private, Royal Sappers and Miners
  	Alexander Forbes: Born 1829 in Scotland Private (royal sappers and miners): Dyer Lane, St Mary, Beverley, Yorkshire & Yorkshire (East Riding), England
  Person ID	I19628	Ordnance Survey People
  Last Modified	2 May 2026

  
  

• Sources

  Details: 1851 Census. [S306] Survey Company. FindmyPast provides access to a transcription of the British Army, Worldwide Index for 1841, 1851, 1861, and 1871. Within the records for the Royal Sappers and Miners (1841 and 1851, and Royal Engineers (1861 and 1871) are transcriptions for the Survey Companies; 13, 14 and 16 Companies. These Companies were established specifically for duties in support of the Ordnance Survey. There are 1043 individuals identified in these transcriptions. The transcriptions include the following information; Year, Name, Rank, Army Number, Company, Station, and Comments. [S25] Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: HO107; Piece: 2359; Folio: 319; Page: 10; GSU roll: 87627-87630. Record for Alexander Forbes https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8860&h=10951835&indiv=try