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Cambridgeshire: Militia Lists and Musters 1757-1876
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CAMBRIDGESHIRE:
Militia Lists and Musters 1757-1876
Cambridgeshire Record Office
Militia Ballot Lists
1757 . Linton (170)[L95/28]
1792 . Sawston (50)[334/056]
1802-3, 1805-9, 1811-26, 1828, 1831 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/55-83]Army of Reserve Ballot Lists
1803 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/124-5]
Levee en Masse Lists
1803-4 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds: men, 17-55, and men, 15-60 [Evans & Sons 283/0/117] (3,000); special constables and miscellaneous [Evans & Sons 283/0/1116-122]
Posse Comitatus Lists, 1798
Gamlingay [P76/7/2], Landbeach [P104/1/4] (both of men, 15-60, in households with population census, copies held by Cambridge Group for Population Studies). Trumpington (pionerrs and miscellaneous) [P158/28/5].
Miltia Enrolment Lists
1780-1831 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [L79/16-17, 19-20].
Militia Muster Rolls
1797-99, 1803-4 . Whole County [Evans & Sons 283/0/55-83]
1803, 1817 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/96/1, 3]Supplementary Miltia Muster Lists
1796-99, 1803-4 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/111, 114].
Army Reserve Enrolment Lists
1803 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/124-5, 129, 133].
Local Miltia Enrolment Lists
1808-13, 1815 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/137, 147, 152].
Local Miltia Muster Rolls
1811, 1814 . Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/148].
Other Units
1797-8 . Provisional Cavalry enrolment lists and musters. Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/165].
1804-5 . Permanent Addiotional Force enrolment lists. Ely and South Witchford Hundreds [Evans & Sons 283/0/137].
1806-7 . Ely United Volunteer Infantry muster rolls. [Evans & Sons 283/0/163-4].
Wisbech and Fenland Museum
Posse Comitatus Lists
1798 . Leverington (men, 15-60) [Parish Records 2/5].
Public Records Office
Militia Enrolment Lists
1788, 1803-31, 1852-94 . Cambridgeshire Militia [WO 68/150-154].
County Regimental Returns ( names listed without location in county )
Militia 1780-1876 . [WO 13/205-232].
Supplementary Militia 1798-1815 . [WO 13/22479].
Local Militia Cambridgeshire 1780-1876 . [WO 13/3421] and Isle of Ely 1808-16 [WO 13/3422].
Cambridgeshire - Tudor and Stuart Muster Rolls
Public Record Office
Muster Rolls
1548 . Hundreds of Radfield (50), Chevely (70), Chilford and Whittlesford (60). [SP 10/3/12]; Wetherley (45), Armingford (70), Stow (35), Thriplow (55) [SP 10/3/13]; Staine (35), Staploe (50), Flendish (20) [SP 10/3/14]; Isle of Ely (70) [SP 10/3/15]. Note: Quite difficult
1598-1600 . Five hundred indenture rolls by name and parish (from 50 to 100 per roll).
1624 . Count Mansfield's expedition (200, by parish) [SP 14/179].
1626-7 . Indenture roll (100, names and parishes) [SP16/46].The British Library Manuscripts Collection
Muster Rolls
1626-40 . Volume headed Cambridgeshire Militia 1626-1640 [Harl. MSS 4014]. Mostly copies of letters and general instructions from the Earl of Suffolk, Lord Lieutenant, on behalf of the KIng to his deputies but at F.52: Copies of Indenture of 250 soldiers by parishes in 1639 . Same for 50 soldiers in 1640
Cambridgeshire Record Office
Muster Certificates
1597-1601 . For the county [TR 711/1-5, photocopies of P.R.O. E. 101/65/16].
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