Hi Paul and list and friends in the Brit Regiment list, I am no expert on all matters Jacobite or anything like it. However as I said, the one place they successfully recruited in England during the march to Derby, was in Lancashire, after they captured Carlisle. These recruits were assumed into the Manchester Regiment commanded by the brave, (but as history proved naive or foolish) Col. Francis Townley. It also "sucked up" the stragglers and deserters from the Regular army. Unfortunately Townley volunteered his regiment to hold Carlisle during the retreat and when he surrendered, he and his men were treated as traitors, rather than as prisoners-of-war. He and most of his Captains were among the last men in Britain to suffer the dreadful punishment of being hung, cut down just before they were dead, having their entrails removed while they were alive and then if they hadn't died with shock or loss of blood, watched as the axeman put them out of their misery. This was the execution William Wallace faced 450 years earlier. We weren't that terribly much more civilised almost half a millennium later!! Anyway I am not sure about all the sources of Muster Rolls in England and hopefully Iain Kerr will see this posting and give a far more eloquent answer than I ever can. Iain as you read this along with all the other Brit Regiment "troops", don't blush because you will probably forget more about British military history than most of the rest of us will ever learn. Regards to all from the Jacobite list. Mark Genealogist: Clan Sutherland Co-genealogist: Clan Mackenzie see my web-site: http://www.highland-family-heritage.co.uk ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Dwerryhouse <Paul.Dwerryhouse@tesco.net> To: <JACOBITES-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: 28 October 1999 19:51 Subject: Edgar > Dear all > > I have been searching steadily backwards in the Wrightington, Mawdesley and > Parbold area of Lancashire for my Edgar lineage. I am now in the second half > of the 1700s and looking for the parents of Thomas Edgar who was born 1774. > The only local candidates are John Edgar who married Mary Bennet in 1771. > The prime candidates for their parents are John Edgar who married Jane Woods > in 1749 in next door Standish. But then the name Edgar drops out the local > parish records for this area. I have checked back to the early 1600s with no > luck. > > One theory is the army of Charles Edward Stewart as it passed just a few > years before 1749. Does any information exist on the possible inclusion of > an Edgar presence in the army. However, I do realise that the family might > have migrated regardless of the army. > > Any views most welcome. > > Regards > > Paul Dwerryhouse > Hawarden, Flintshire, UK. > >