James ELDER b. 1821 Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland: Ordnance Survey People

1821 -

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Name	James ELDER [1, 2]
Birth	1821	Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland [1, 3]
Gender	Male
Military Enlistment	1840 [1]
	Sapper, Royal Sappers and Miners
1841 Census	1841	Camp on Kinder Scout, Hayfield, Glossop, Derbyshire, England [3]
	Soldier
1841 Survey Company	1841	Waterford & Preston [2]
	Private, 14th Company, Royal Sappers & Miners
	In Lt. Hamley's Detachment, The Peak of Derby
Name	James Elden [3]
Person ID	I6601	Ordnance Survey People
Last Modified	2 May 2026

[S196] Ancestry.com, UK, Royal Hospital Chelsea Pensioner Soldier Service Records, 1760-1920, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2016;), The National Archives; Kew, London, England; Royal Hospital Chelsea: Soldiers Service Documents; Reference Number: WO 97.
Record for James Elder
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=61068&h=176850&indiv=try
[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.
[S225] Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Class: HO107; Piece: 185; Book: 10; Civil Parish: Glossop; County: Derbyshire; Enumeration District: 5; Folio: 58; Page: 6; Line: 8; GSU roll: 241290.
Record for James Elden
https://search.ancestry.co.uk/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=8978&h=874862&indiv=try

Ordnance Survey People