Some years ago I found an ancester of mine signed such a Roll at Alnwick, way out of your area. But it must have been nation wide My question is are such Rolls available in North Yorkshire and have they been Transcribed onto disc etc.? Would Richmondshire Rolls be at Chester or at Northallerton ? All my known ancesters are from the top 20 miles of Yorkshire, all of Co Durham, Northumberland, the Borders and Caithness. Wishing you all a fruitful 2008 in your research and hope that someone can give me a clue Jack

Jack, I would have thought that the Oath of Allegiance would have been signed at the point of enlistment into the Army, Militia, Yeomanry or whatever. Alnwick has a long association with the Army in Northumberland, the castle, today, being the home of the Northumberland Fusiliers Regimental Museum. The principal north Yorkshire recruiting centres at that time would probably have been Richmond, York and maybe Northallerton. For Durham I guess it would have been Durham city whilst for the borders it might have been Berwick-upon-Tweed. Typically you are looking for the garrison towns. And these, historically, seem to have been situated along the main cross-country routes: York, Richmond, Durham and Berwick all being on the old London-Edinburgh route. kindest regards, Peter Appleton -----Original Message----- From: eng-north-yorks-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-north-yorks-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of ZALAE@aol.com Sent: 28 December 2007 20:03 To: eng-north-yorks@rootsweb.com Subject: [ENG-NORTH-YORKS] 1723 Oath of Allegiance Roll Some years ago I found an ancester of mine signed such a Roll at Alnwick, way out of your area. But it must have been nation wide My question is are such Rolls available in North Yorkshire and have they been Transcribed onto disc etc.? Would Richmondshire Rolls be at Chester or at Northallerton ? All my known ancesters are from the top 20 miles of Yorkshire, all of Co Durham, Northumberland, the Borders and Caithness. Wishing you all a fruitful 2008 in your research and hope that someone can give me a clue Jack ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-NORTH-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message