Coming in late to this thread so this may have already been mentioned, but ... There is a digitised copy of "Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of Scotland during 1759-1814" by John Malcolm Bulloch available at http://www.archive.org/details/territorialsoldi00bulluoft which you may care to have a look at. Kind regards Ed -----Original Message----- From: angus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:angus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nivard Ovington Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:05 AM To: angus@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ANGUS] North British Militia Hi Gordon Thanks for that (I think <vbg>) No, really much appreciated, as your mail came in I was searching the Army & Militia lists but nothing early enough I did find a reference to an 1813 Army and Militia list thus :- "The Army list includes lists of officers, a list of the North Britain militia and a list of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers" although these listings usually only contained officers, the description is ambiguous, most Militia were disbanded in 1802 but were raised again soon after Apart from that I have found little on them, quite a few individuals who served with them on the National Archives but annoyingly no David COOK I will look into it further and come back to you if I find any more on the 5th Thanks again Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) PS it would be ironic if it were the Shetlands and my family were there during WW2 three of my siblings were born there > Nivard: had a relative in the 5th North British Militia. According to an > army website, the 5th was: > 5th Ross, Sutherland, Shetland and Cromarty Militia > and so you have a wide choice of where he may have been recruited!! > Gordon Johnson. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Are you the Stewarts who wanted to find 38 Market St in Brechin & to whom I sent the info? Computer troubles lost the letter. mjmt@camalott.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen & Ed Stewart" <estewart@alphalink.com.au> To: <angus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [ANGUS] North British Militia > Coming in late to this thread so this may have already been mentioned, but > ... > > There is a digitised copy of "Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of > Scotland during 1759-1814" by John Malcolm Bulloch available at > http://www.archive.org/details/territorialsoldi00bulluoft > which you may care to have a look at. > > Kind regards > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: angus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:angus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Nivard Ovington > Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:05 AM > To: angus@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ANGUS] North British Militia > > Hi Gordon > > Thanks for that (I think <vbg>) > > No, really much appreciated, as your mail came in I was searching the Army > & > > Militia lists but nothing early enough > > I did find a reference to an 1813 Army and Militia list thus :- > "The Army list includes lists of officers, a list of the North Britain > militia and a list of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers" although these > listings usually only contained officers, the description is ambiguous, > most > > Militia were disbanded in 1802 but were raised again soon after > > Apart from that I have found little on them, quite a few individuals who > served with them on the National Archives but annoyingly no David COOK > > I will look into it further and come back to you if I find any more on the > 5th > > Thanks again > > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > PS it would be ironic if it were the Shetlands and my family were there > during WW2 three of my siblings were born there > > >> Nivard: had a relative in the 5th North British Militia. According to an >> army website, the 5th was: >> 5th Ross, Sutherland, Shetland and Cromarty Militia >> and so you have a wide choice of where he may have been recruited!! >> Gordon Johnson. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi Ed Thanks for the pointer As an ardent admirer of Archive.org I don't know how I missed that so thanks for telling me It and a further search of the NAS (now I can find the search) seems to confirm that the 5th Regiment of North British (or Britain) Militia was formed as follows "The counties of Fife, Stirling, Clackmannan and Kinross were united for the purpose of forming a militia, known as the 5th or Fifeshire Regiment of North British Militia. In 1803 Dumbarton was substituted for Fife to form the Stirling, Dumbarton, Clackmannan, and Kinross Militia (later the 90th Regiment of British Militia) with initially 800 men." >From the book you mentioned :- 5th or Fifeshire And 5th or Fife, i.e., Fife, Stirling - Kinross, Clackmannan So at least thats narrowed it down to only several thousand men now <vbg> The NAS hit referencing the above I am unsure if its a listing of the men or just a general publication, I will follow that up Thanks for your input, appreciated After all this I hope he is my man ! Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > Coming in late to this thread so this may have already been mentioned, but > ... > > There is a digitised copy of "Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of > Scotland during 1759-1814" by John Malcolm Bulloch available at > http://www.archive.org/details/territorialsoldi00bulluoft > which you may care to have a look at. > > Kind regards > Ed