Hello Adrian Thanks for this but can you please give me a link to the record collection on Ancestry. No way can I get it to come up. Mike __________________________________________________ On 20/03/2017 13:26, Adrian Bruce wrote: > On 20 March 2017 at 10:30, Michael J Hulme <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... Lets hope the Muster Rolls get onto the Internet in due course >> otherwise a trip to >> London might be called for. >> ... >> > > But they are! Sort of.... > > Ancestry has a collection "UK, British Army Muster Books and Pay Lists, > 1812-1817" and if you search in there for Charles Manning, you will find 2 > entries for the guy in the 14th Dragoons, specifically it gives you the > rolls for 25 Dec 1813 - 24 Mar 1814 and 24 Jan 1815 - 24 Jan 1815. > > **However** if it's anything like the rolls for the Veterans that I looked > at, the intervening rolls *are* on the film strip that you can see - they > simply haven't been indexed (the 2 heads icon next to the "image X of Y" is > greyed out). For my guy they'd indexed the first and last books on the > film. > > In this case, it looks like there is just one piece for the 14th Dragoons, > which is Piece 1151 for 1814-1815 (roughly..., bearing in mind that the > quarter dates are still driven from the old calendar starting on Lady Day, > which is why one quarter starts 25 Dec.) Which books Ancestry have indexed, > I don't know. The important thing with a Muster Roll is to check *all* the > pages for ancillary data such as expenses forms. Yes, expenses forms - I > found in the main body that my chap was involved in expenses references X > and Y. Looking later on, X and Y were actually documented as journeys from > A to B, then C to D, so I actually knew that this chap was walking between > these 2 places in Ireland on one of just two routes between them on a > specific date. And you can even Google Streetview those roads! > > Best of luck and I hope I interpreted your requirements correctly. > > Adrian > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/DEV/ > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=devon > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus