Very Interesting, Blair ! I originally "saved" this article because of the HUTCHINSON, Penryth a Tayler, age 40 entry, since this is where many of my HUTCHINSONs were. Would you know the meaning of the title IMPRESS'D MEN ? Barb, Ontario, Canada.

Hi Barb, Impressed men were men who had been forced into joining the Army or Navy. A soldier was paid a shilling a day and in order to become a soldier/sailor had to accept the King's shilling. Unscrupulous recruitment parties would tour the inns and taverns and slip the shilling into ale glasses thus the unsuspecting man would finish his ale and fish out the shilling - and that was it. He was manhandled off to barracks. This created a trend for glass bottomed ale tankards in which a man could see if anything unwanted had been deposited in his beer. Small wonder there were so many deserters. Cheers Shirley in Dent where we have sunshine for the first time in ages ! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Baker" <bbaker48@sympatico.ca> To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] GENERAL EVENING POST, Saturday September 14,1745 / DESERTERS > Very Interesting, Blair ! I originally "saved" this article because of > the > HUTCHINSON, Penryth a Tayler, age 40 entry, since this is where many of my > HUTCHINSONs were. > > Would you know the meaning of the title IMPRESS'D MEN ? > > Barb, Ontario, Canada. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thank you, Shirley. HAHAHAHA.....I can see why the men would not be ' impressed ' with this method. Barb.

If you take things a bit further and go from 'impressed' to 'press' as in Press Gang, what you get in Shirley's account is awfully civilised, as the Press Gangs in port towns would routinely bash the unsuspecting on the head before hauling him aboard one of HM vessels without so much as a 'by your leave' Liz Owen ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shirley Tebay" <shirley.tebay@btinternet.com> To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] GENERAL EVENING POST, Saturday September 14,1745 / DESERTERS > Hi Barb, > Impressed men were men who had been forced into joining the Army or Navy. > A > soldier was paid a shilling a day and in order to become a soldier/sailor > had to accept the King's shilling. Unscrupulous recruitment parties would > tour the inns and taverns and slip the shilling into ale glasses thus the > unsuspecting man would finish his ale and fish out the shilling - and that > was it. He was manhandled off to barracks. This created a trend for > glass > bottomed ale tankards in which a man could see if anything unwanted had > been > deposited in his beer. Small wonder there were so many deserters. > Cheers > Shirley in Dent where we have sunshine for the first time in ages ! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Barb Baker" <bbaker48@sympatico.ca> > To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:38 PM > Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] GENERAL EVENING POST, Saturday September > 14,1745 / DESERTERS > > >> Very Interesting, Blair ! I originally "saved" this article because of >> the >> HUTCHINSON, Penryth a Tayler, age 40 entry, since this is where many of >> my >> HUTCHINSONs were. >> >> Would you know the meaning of the title IMPRESS'D MEN ? >> >> Barb, Ontario, Canada. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ENG-WESTMORLAND-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 > ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

"Impressed" means conscripted - especially into the navy (often done unfairly and many men were tricked in one way or another). Heather Law ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barb Baker" <bbaker48@sympatico.ca> To: <eng-westmorland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:38 PM Subject: Re: [ENG-WESTMORLAND] GENERAL EVENING POST, Saturday September 14,1745 / DESERTERS > Very Interesting, Blair ! I originally "saved" this article because of > the > HUTCHINSON, Penryth a Tayler, age 40 entry, since this is where many of my > HUTCHINSONs were. > > Would you know the meaning of the title IMPRESS'D MEN ? > > Barb, Ontario, Canada. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ENG-WESTMORLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter for home users. SPAMfighter has removed 2114 spam emails to date. Paying users do not have this message in their emails. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len