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Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay...
Catalogue reference: WO 12
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WO 12
This series comprises muster books and pay lists of the Household troops, the cavalry, Guards and the regular infantry regiments of the line. Also special regiments or corps, colonial troops, various foreign legions and troops, general states and...
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WO 12
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Title (The name of the record)
- Commissary General of Musters Office and successors: General Muster Books and Pay Lists
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Date (When the record was created)
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1732-1878
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series comprises muster books and pay lists of the Household troops, the cavalry, Guards and the regular infantry regiments of the line. Also special regiments or corps, colonial troops, various foreign legions and troops, general states and musters of regimental and other depots, etc.
It provides a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on the form 'Men becoming non-effective', sometimes found at the end of each quarter's musters, shows the birthplace, trade, and date of enlistment of any soldier discharged or dead during the quarter.
Some muster books may include lists of men transferred from one battalion to another.
From about 1868, at the end of each muster, may be found a Marriage Roll, which enumerates wives and children for whom married quarters were provided.
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Related material (A cross-reference to other related records)
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See also Armed Forces Service Records in
For the continuation of the series see WO 16
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Separated material (A cross-reference between records that are related by provenance but now kept separately)
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For musters of various companies and detachments (including cadets) from 1721 to 1760 see British Library. Add. MSS. 9913 and 9914; these two volumes having been transferred by the Master General and the Board of Ordnance in 1835.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
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English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Commissary General of Musters, 1660-1817
- Secretary-at-War, 1660-1855
- War Department, 1855-1857
- War Office, 1857-1964
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
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13308 volume(s)
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C14223/
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