Hello Kerrie. This doesn’t anwer your question to the list — sorry about that — but my gut feeling is that the information leading to his marriage information, should probably be found in the Birth Certificate in Scotland for his first child. The Scots required a lot of information for their registrations of BDM records; so that might assist you, if you don’t already have it. BUT getting to your question itself : >>>>>> this website gives a lot of valuable information: http://www.bhsproject.co.uk/occ_excise.shtml From it I have extracted this for you: “ … Records at TNA - Excise Minute Books TNA holds the Excise Minute Books (references starting CUST 47) which describe all changes in personnel in the Excise Service between 1695 and 1874 and so are invaluable to anyone with an ancestor who was an Excise officer. If minute books are searched for the whole career of an Excise man it should be possible to trace all the areas he lived in to carry out his duties and find out when he was promoted. Key points: Vacant posts were always filled by the transferring in of a suitably trained and experienced officer, often from another area of the country, and each minute describes the chain of moves that might ensue Each book covers a period of just a few months: for example to search minute books for the whole of 1785 requires looking at 7 minute books At the start of each book is a surname index by initial letter of surname, each entry includes the forename and page no. (eg there is a page of all 'W' surnames but Woodroofe may appear before Williams and after Wyman) It is possible to search the surname index in a book in a couple minutes but it takes more time to order and collect the books and note any findings Sometimes a promotion required the Excise man to move a considerable distance and it must have taken weeks or months to arrange the move, particularly if a number of children were involved (not forgetting the horse!). Occasionally a plan to move an Excise man did not go ahead, due to a change of plan - this will appear in the minutes. Where a Collector dies or retires, this can trigger a lot of personnel changes. Whether all the moves happened at once or whether they took place in top down sequence - I am not sure. The Bateman books show an Examiner or Surveying General Examiner might be temporarily transferred from the Chief Office in London to provide cover at a country office and there will be a minute ordering this arrangement. Upon the return to work of the recovered officer from my experience there is generally not a minute describing the ending of the cover arrangement. … “ ADDITIONALLY, it provides this information too: “… Records at TNA - Other Excise Documents The CUST 43 series includes indexed instructions received from the Excise Office London at each District. For example Brentford District letters 1713-1863 are included in CUST 43/1 to 43/16. Only useful if your ancestor was in a senior post and signed letters. Quarterly salary lists, T 44/49. These appear to list quarterly salaries due to Excise men and provides names, grades and amounts, but (apparently) just for the London-based posts. It also includes a list of 'periodical augmentation of salary to officers who have worked more than 10 years in their respective offices'. It takes 15 - 20 minutes to look through the details for one quarter. Top Records at local archives You may find a Sacrament Certificate for your ancestor at local archives dating from around the time he joined the Excise Service. These are witnessed certificates stating the individual had taken Holy Communion. For example, there is a Sacrament Certificate dated 21 October 1810 at the Isle of Wight Archives for Abraham COTTON, who was 23 at the time, and who became an excise man shortly after. He married Elizabeth BONIFACE on 12 January 1811, shortly after starting in his first Excise position. Online sources for Excise ancestors Google Books includes full views of the Royal Kalendar for 1797, 1817 and 1866 and snippet views for 1818, 1840 and a few other years (search for 'Royal Kalendar' and a surname). (free) Google Books contains two full view Excise Manuals by Joseph Bateman, which describes the service and career structure, details the entry requirements, training and examination processes - for 1840 and 1852. Search for ' "joseph bateman" excise '. (free) Historical Directories (see Web links) includes trade directories from the early 1800s through to the 1910s. These can be searched by surname or 'Excise' using the keyword facility. (free) London Gazette Archives (see Web links), searches are sophisticated, covers 1760s onwards. (free) FindMyPast includes censuses, some of which can be searched by occupation. Ancestry.co.uk includes trade directories and copies of The Times newspaper to 1835. ..." Hoping this helps. Oh, and don’t forget that there is a Ballina in NSW, Oz. ray in oz On 26 Aug 2015, at 8:17 pm, Kerrie Alexander via <cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com> wrote: Hi Could anyone tell me how I would find information on Excise Officers? I have a Thomas Rutledge born c1828 in Tyrone that I am trying to prove was married in Fermanagh in 1861 to Jane Palmer. His occupation at the time was Excise Officer. I have found him in 1861 in Argyll, Scotland as an officer of the Inland revenue, he then returned to Ireland to marry and then went back to Argyll where his first child was born, his second child was born in Londonderry in 1864 and I found in an Irish newspapers where he may have been transferred to Glasgow in 1867. From there I lose track of him but on an Ancstry.com tree it states he died in 1872 in Ballina which I believe is in Mayo.