Jean Durbin of Perth, Western Australia has extracted the Derbyshire
entries from the list of deserters 1828-1840. These names were posted
to the Police Gazette as the numbers were increasing alarmingly.
Some of the men went AWOL more than once! Desertion often occurred
when a Regiment was about to be posted abroad. The baptisms of some of
the men can be traced in the Wirksworth parish Registers.
Thanks Jean for permission to publish
Source details for "Deserters":
A microfiche index was compiled by the Manchester &
Lancs FHS, copyright date 1999. The index is in 3 parts.
Part 1, 17,455 deserters born in England, 703 Wales, 115 overseas.
Part 2, 12,747 Irish born.
Part 3, 5414, Scots, also 144 entries with no birthplace or one which could
not be positively identified.
Other sources:
LDS films
1828/1829 - 0951965.
1829 some of it missing.
1830/1832 - 0951966.
1833/1835 - 0951967.
1836/1838 - 0951968.
1839/1840 - 0951969.
Also a full set of bound copies at PRO, Kew, covering 1828-1840 and some
beyond to 1845. Class HO75.
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