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The Pay List for the Rotherham Volunteers
Source=h:/!Genuki/RecordTranscriptions/WRY/RotherhamMisc_JP.txt The following account is taken from the "Pay List and Return of the Field and Staff Officers of the Rotherham Corps of Volunteer Infantry", from 15th August to 17th August 1805, both days inclusive. The total pay they received for the three days named was £12. 10s. The Captains received 2s 7d a day as allowance. Swinton, or the 2nd Company of Wath Wood Volunteers Infantry assembled on the signal of alarm from the firing of the neighbouring Beacons, and marched according to general rders towards the place or Rendezvous on the lighting of Beacons, as directed by the 36thSection of the late Act of Parliament. They marched the 15th and 16th August 1805.
The Field Officers were,
Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Walker
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Walker
Major Samuel Oliver
Paymaster Philip Hunt
Adjutant William Thatcher
Surgeon Jo. Turner
QuarterMaster William Dyson
Lieutenant Colonel Joshua Walker
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Walker
Major Samuel Oliver
Paymaster Philip Hunt
Adjutant William Thatcher
Surgeon Jo. Turner
QuarterMaster William Dyson
Major Samuel Oliver's Company
Captain John Roodhouse | Lieutenant Robert Beatson |
Sergeant James Price | Sergeant Samuel Hattersley |
Sergeant Benjamin Flockton | Corporal John Smith |
Corporal Thomas Bradbury | Corporal Francis Goodall |
Drummers or Fifers | |
Thomas Dobb | Samuel Skelton |
Gunners or Privates | |
Samuel Athron | Thomas Aukland |
Robert Bellamy | William Burgan |
William Booth | Joseph Birks |
Samuel Braithwaite | George Clayton |
William Carr | Andrew Crawshaw |
Charles Crawshaw | Joseph Cavill |
Thomas Cawthorne | Richard Cardwell |
Micah Cutt | John Daltry |
Thomas Fretwell | Robert Gothard |
Joseph Goldsbro' | John Holmes |
James Herring | John Hague |
John Holdsworth | John Handley |
John Jackson | George Kent |
John Lambert | Thomas Law |
Thomas May | William Morley |
John Martin | Thomas Martin |
George Moore | Benjamin Moody |
George Oxley | Charles Price |
Joseph Ratcliffe | Samuel Skelton |
Thomas Smith | Thomas Stainrod |
Matthew Scorah | Thomas White |
George Wagstaff | Joseph Wakeman |
Samuel Whitaker | William Walker |
John Moore |
Captain Butler's Company
Lieutenant George Halley | Ensign Richard Hill |
Sergeants | |
Charles Parkin | William Hawley |
Richard Robinson | |
Corporals | |
Joseph Yelland | William Webster |
Thomas Lister | |
Drummer or Fifer | |
Robert Elliott | |
Gunners or Privates | |
John Andrew | Thomas Arundell |
Thomas Ashley | George Bagnall |
John Bagnall | William Bagnall |
Thomas Bagshaw | Thomas Bower |
Titus Burkhead | John Carnelley |
George Cawthorn | Matthew Cook |
Thomas Cutt | Robert Dawson |
Robert Elliott | George Grafton |
William Grant | John Hague |
Benjamin Hattersley | William Hickman |
George James | George Jarvis |
George Kemp | John Kitchinman |
Thomas Grafton | Lionel Keyworth |
James Leesley | John Midgley |
Joseph Mirfin | James Needham |
Joseph Pashley | David Pattrick |
Jacob Robinson | Thomas Thompson |
Willoughby Utley | Thomas Wainwright |
George Ward | Robert Warris |
William Watson | Samuel Webster |
Jonathan White | Thomas Whiteley |
William Wigfield | William Wood |
Captain Wheatley's Company
Captain Joseph Wheatley | Lieutenant Philip Hunt |
Sergeants | |
Thomas Downes | William Ashley |
Thomas Dobb | |
Corporals | |
Richard Goodier | George Carmichael |
John Wortley | |
Drummers or Fifers | |
William Layland | Isaac Watson |
Gunners or Privates | |
Jonathan Badger | Thomas Bagshaw |
John Butler | John Cooper |
John Crowther | John Clark |
William Earnshaw | Thomas Earnshaw |
Thomas England | Daniel Firth |
Thomas Fletcher | William Grafton |
John Goodison | James Heathcote |
Benjamin Harper | John Holinshaw |
John Hobson | John Hudson |
Thomas Hutchinson | William Jenkinson |
William Jessop | Thomas Ingle |
William Jenkinson | Samuel Jenkinson |
John Jarvis | James Johnson |
Joseph Jackson, Junior | Joseph Jackson |
Robert Kent | Joseph Lambert |
Thomas Lee | Robert Needham |
Samuel Needham | Matthew Nayler |
William Ostliffe | William Parker |
John Rylands | Thomas Robinson |
Samuel Robinson | Thomas Shaw |
Martin Simonett | Cornelius Stewart |
Benjamin Twilby | James Taylor |
William Thornsby | John Tye |
Joseph Watson | George Watson |
Joseph Woodhead | George Walker |
John Webster |
Captain Oxley's Company
Captain John Oxley | Lieutenant James Calton |
Ensign Thomas Lee | |
Sergeants | |
Charles Adams | Edward Hawke |
Richard Woodhead | |
Corporals | |
John Woofinden | Thomas Revell |
John Buntin | |
Drummers and Fifers | |
John Walker | Richard Ingle |
Gunners or Privates | |
George Abson | Joseph Broadhead |
Edward Brailsford | James Cundell |
Thomas Cundell | John Coe |
John Copley | John Clarke |
William Cooper | John Cundell |
George Dalphin | John Dobb |
John Dobson | William Downes |
Thomas Earnshaw | John Farr |
Martin Furniss | Isaac Firth |
William Gray | Hugh Gosling |
John Hewitt | Joshua Hollingworth |
John Hicks | John Haslehurst |
John Jessop | Joseph Jephcock |
John Jackson | John Jarvis |
Robert Kirby | John Lee |
John Law | John Lillecar |
Joseph Langton | John Matthewman |
Joseph Maleham | Joshua Mills |
John Needham | John Parkin |
John Revell | William Reckless |
Thomas Rhodes | William Shirtcliffe |
Edward Swift | George Silvester |
Thomas Stringer | James Shepherd |
Thomas Sorsby | John Staniforth |
William Thompson | James Whitehead |
George Wilkinson | William Whitely |
John Woodyeare | Jeremiah Woodcock |
Captain Wright's Company
Captain Thomas Wright | Lieutenant George Harvey |
Ensign William Dyson | |
Sergeants | |
Abraham Walton | Edmund Beeley |
John Earnshaw | |
Corporals | |
Abraham Scarlett | Thomas Gillatt |
William Swan | |
Drummers of Fifers | |
Thomas Revell | John Kirk |
Gunners or Privates | |
James Atkinson | Joseph Cundell |
John Charlesworth | William Cooke |
George Cox | Joseph Cox |
Samuel Dixon | William Deakin |
William Foers | John Green |
William Goodison | Joseph Gilbert |
Matthew Goodall | Matthew Hinchcliffe |
Joseph Hague | Richard Hepinstall |
John Jarvis | Samuel Johnson |
Thomas Jenkinson | William Law |
William Metham | John Moore |
John Martin | John Mower |
John Nayler | Joseph Nayler |
George Roddis | Joseph Roebuck |
John Robinson | John Reckless |
George Smith | Francis Smith |
Thomas Scoles | Joseph Staniforth |
Jonathan Strother | Thomas Swallow |
Major Sellars | William Smith |
George Satterfitt | Jacob Thompson |
John Taylor | John Tyas |
Samuel Hudson |
Lieutenant Whitehead's Company
Lieutenant Robert Whitehead | Second Lieutenant John Wainwright |
Sergeants | |
James Shillito | William Kesteven |
Corporals | |
John Wragg | John Mason |
John Leedham | |
Drummers or Fifers | |
Valentine Earnshaw | George Taylor |
Gunners or Privates | |
Job Athey | Luke Aldam |
William Ainley | John Adams |
John Ashforth | William Brammer |
William Broadbent | John Braithwaite |
Peter Booker | Thomas Brammer |
Samuel Barlow | James Coe |
James England | Joseph Foster |
John Firth | Thomas Gillatt |
Joseph Grayson | William Goulding |
James Hirst | John Harrison |
Thomas Harrison | Joseph Hague |
Joseph Hobson | John Heaton |
Thomas Jackson | George Johnson |
John Jackson | Thomas Jubb |
George Kent | George Kirk |
William Makin | John Makin |
Thomas Middleton | William Mortimer |
George Morley | John Oxley |
Joshua Oxley | Edward Pagden |
Robert Pashley | Thomas Roger |
Thomas Saxton | Richard Sykes |
Benjamin Salmon | Christopher Swetton |
William Taylor | Joseph Thompson |
Joseph Taylor | John Thompson |
David Utley | William Wright |
Samuel Woodhouse | Edward Wilkinson |
George Read |
Captain Tancred's Company
Captain William Tancred | Lieutenant Joseph Johnson |
Ensign John Lambert | |
Sergeants | |
Joseph Swann | William Swann |
Thomas Wildsmith | |
Corporals | |
Joseph Calway | William Emerson |
Joshua Nicholson | |
Drummers or Fifers | |
William Revell | William White |
Gunners or Privates | |
Thomas Bingley | Henry Buxton |
William Coates | William Cardwell |
James Cowcome | Thomas Dawson |
George Earnshaw | George Ellis |
John Fishburn | George Goodall |
Mark Gregory | William Greenwood |
Matthew Greaves | William Hague |
Thomas Hinchcliffe | Jonathan Hirst |
William Hague, Junior | Jarvis Harris |
James Higgins | Mark Hattersley |
George Hill | Joseph Harper |
George James | Joseph Machin |
Charles Machin | William Mellard |
Nathaniel Robinson | William Revill |
William Swindall | John Silvester |
Abraham Smith | John Slack |
John Siddons | Benjamin Shepherd |
William Simmonite | John Thompson |
Charles Tissington | John Utley |
Matthew Wright | Isaac Whitely |
Thomas Wood |
Captain Walker's Company
Captain Jonathan Walker, Junior | Lieutenant William Glossop |
Sergeants | |
John Batty | Ewen Maclaurin |
William Woodyeare | |
Corporals | |
John Butler | Thomas Raby |
Joseph Wilkinson | |
Drummers or Fifers | |
Robert Cundell | John Sayles |
Gunners or Privates | |
Ely Ainley | Joseph Boaler |
William Barker | William Barton |
Samuel Berwick | Richard Booth |
George Brooke | Henry Bennett |
Joseph Butterworth | Joseph Burgin |
Isaac Cutt | Richard Cutt |
Isaac Chadwick | Joseph Cartledge |
William Cooper | George Cooke |
John Darwin | William Dobson |
Henry Dixon | John Golding |
John Gledhill | John Gregory |
William Gee | Thomas Globe |
Joseph Hattersley | John Harrison |
George Hammond | William Lawson |
Benjamin Marshall | Edward Myers |
William Myers | William Martin |
John Maleham | Eben. Pattrick |
William Palfray | John Richardson |
William Robinson | Joseph Ward |
Isaac Ward | John Woodcock |
Wath Wood, the Second Company
Received of Messrs Fields & Co, Dy Recrs of Taxes, and paid to the Officers and Privates of the Swinton or Second Company of this Corps, the sum of one hundred and forty guineas, being the marching allowance granted by Government on the signal of alarm being made, [each received £2. 2s.].
Captain William Brameld | Lieutenant Thomas Brameld |
Ensign William Stenton | |
Sergeants [Colour] | |
Henry Bennet | Thomas Taylor |
Pay Clerk | |
Thomas Besby | |
Sergeants | |
Joseph Cox | John Hargreave |
Corporals | |
Joshua Sykes, Junior | John Alsebrook |
Thomas Dunhill | |
Drummers | |
William Hargreaves | Thomas Adams |
Privates | |
Joseph Sheldon | David Button |
William Shaw | William Speight |
Francis Barlow | Joseph Alsebrook |
Charles Askin | Thomas Acaster |
Thomas Barlow | William Barraclough |
Thomas Barraclough | William Cliffe |
Benjamin Copley | John Chapple |
William Earnshaw | John Froggatt |
Francis Garfitt | Samuel Harrison |
William Harrison | James Hutchinson |
John Hill | William Hawke |
John Hobson | William Holden |
William Lancashire | Luke Ledger |
William Morton | James Middleton |
James Mann | Nicholas Nott |
John Newton | William Oldfield |
Abraham Peaker | William Pearson |
William Rhodes | George Roberts |
Thomas Simpson | Robert Smith |
George Sailes | William Sheppard |
Francis Shillito | Thomas Shaw |
Samuel Steel | Thomas Steel |
Abraham Smith | John Schroeder |
Joseph Shaw | Joseph Smith |
Richard Smith | John Stanley |
Joseph Taylor | George Taylor |
William Turner | Joseph Turner |
David Whitehead | John Wood |
Transcribed by Jack Parry © 2010
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