| Edwulf | 08 Dec 2010 7:55 p.m. PST |
In my spare time at work, I like to look and research members of the British army during the napoleonic wars. mostly over the net. Just to pass the free time I have with nowt to do. These are some cracking Georgian British names ive come across. Thought they might be usuefall to some skirmish gamers, roleplayers or just for a smile. All are real soldiers who fought in and lived through the Peninsula, most of them made it to 1847 to claim their MGS Medal. The only ones I have much extra info on are Private Croome, born in Berkely, Gloucestershire in 1781, Discharged 1814 age. Hiram Toy was from Kinsale in Ireland, and served from 1802 to 1815. Jepson Vickers was the only one of the 45th boys here to claim his medal, born in 1789 or 1791, in Derbyshire. He seemed to live to a rip old age beeing present on the 1841 census and the 1851 census.
William Ace, Sgt 10th Hussars
John Grubb 10th Hussars
Camp Revett 10th Hussars
Elijah Croome 45th Foot
Hiram Toy 45th Foot, (Irish)
Jepson Vickers 45th
Bill Hogbin 5th
Rudolphus Preece 5th
John Sparrow 5th
Abraham Sillick 5th
Thomas Tubbs 5th
Abel Jackson 14th Light Dragoons
Bernard Salonia 14th Light Dragoons
Cornelius Crummin 88th
Tully Dignum 88th
Moses Wiggins 88th
Gustavus McKenzie 74th
Vizor Trench 74th
Absalom Croker 83rd (Englishman, Somerset)
Major Dimond 83rd (Lucky he never got promoted to Sgt)
Reid Lang 77th
Patrick Gubbins Sgt 6th Foot
Elisha Glenister 12th Light Dragoons
Silvester Sheen 12th Light Dragoons
Shadrach Dunkley 20th Foot(survived being bayonetted)
William Liquorish Sgt 20th Foot
Jeremiah Shatwell 20th Foot
Monk Smith 20th Foot
Edward Splatt 20th Foot
William Tell 59th Foot
Christopher Oldknow 59th Foot
Valesius Skipton 38th Foot Paymaster
Fletcher Wilkie Captain, 38th Foot |
| NoLongerAMember2 | 08 Dec 2010 8:09 p.m. PST |
Well, at least Jeremiah did something well… |
 Flashman14  | 08 Dec 2010 8:44 p.m. PST |
It's like a Dickens novel … |
| Edwulf | 08 Dec 2010 8:53 p.m. PST |
should point out that almost everyone else is rather boring conventional, English, Scottish or Irish surname preceded by Thomas, William, James, John or Edward. These are the more… original. I agree. Jeremiah Shatwell, must have had it rough. Sgt Ace on the other hand.. what a guy. |
| John the OFM | 08 Dec 2010 8:55 p.m. PST |
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| apathostic | 08 Dec 2010 11:05 p.m. PST |
It makes the guy who plays Sherlock Holmes in the new tv series sound almost respectable (Benedict Cumberbatch). Maybe not . . . |
| forrester | 09 Dec 2010 6:50 a.m. PST |
I'm guessing a lot of these unusual names have simply died out,through lack of a male line. |
| ComradeCommissar | 09 Dec 2010 8:23 a.m. PST |
John Sparrow wasn't a Captain was he? |
 ColCampbell | 09 Dec 2010 9:18 a.m. PST |
No, that was his grand-father. Jim |
| Frederick | 09 Dec 2010 10:07 a.m. PST |
Not all – we had a chap running one of our units whose ancestry was from the UK and had the magnificent last name of Younghusband |
| spontoon | 09 Dec 2010 9:52 p.m. PST |
Check out a phone book from Newfoundland! Lot's of archaic names there. My favourite surname: Bosomworthy! |
| Andrew May1 | 11 Dec 2010 2:33 p.m. PST |
In the village of Sherston in Wiltshire, there is still a family who have the fantastic surname of Outlaw… |
| DHautpol | 07 Jan 2011 7:19 a.m. PST |
Wonder if Younghusband and Bosomworthy are pronounced as they look? Some English names have very unlikely pronunciations, for example: Beauchamp = Beecham, Cholmondeley = Chumly and Marjoribanks = Marchbanks. Bosomworthy would be quite splendid if it was as it looks. |
| tuscaloosa | 15 Jan 2011 4:43 p.m. PST |
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explores the Master & Commander starter set for Black Seas.