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Title: Help please
Post by: maisie76 on Sunday 03 May 20 00:32 BST (UK)
Hi
Could someone please help decipher the regiment for Alexander Martin.

Many thanks

Maisie
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 03 May 20 00:52 BST (UK)
The writing is lovely and neat, but some of the letters/words are not clear possibly due to the copying process.

Is this viewable online anywhere, so we can have a look to see if it is any clearer?

Can you tell us date, place and what document this is from, so we have a context, which might help in interpretation?

See how you go here first, but if no one can solve the puzzle, the experts in the armed forces boards might be able to work this out.

Added: I love your name. My beautiful golden retriever is called Maisie.  ;)
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: horselydown86 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:15 BST (UK)
Best I can do:

...private Majors Company ^7th [E?]^ N.B.M. [?] Janet Harley...
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:21 BST (UK)
Looks like it was from Scotlands People - Enlargement attached

Looks like 7 Reg N B M
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 03 May 20 06:26 BST (UK)
That is a lot clearer Kay.  :) I agree with 7th Regt

Can you work out what the bit after Janet Farley says?
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: horselydown86 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:27 BST (UK)
Quote from: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:21 BST (UK)
Looks like 7 Reg N B M

I agree, Kay.  The interlineation is probably 7th Regt
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:30 BST (UK)
Hopefully this is the later bit
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:31 BST (UK)
Could the last be - in this parish??
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 03 May 20 06:32 BST (UK)
Sorry Horsley, I was fiddling around with superscripts on the iPad (which takes some time), and noticed you had posted while I was fiddling.  :)
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 03 May 20 06:34 BST (UK)
Quote from: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:31 BST (UK)
Could the last be - in this parish??

Looks like parish, and makes sense.

I didn’t even know this was a marriage.  :-[ If you need help with the abbreviations you could ask on the armed forces board.

Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:34 BST (UK)
A bit that includes adjoining records
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: horselydown86 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:39 BST (UK)
Quote from: Ruskie on Sunday 03 May 20 06:32 BST (UK)
Sorry Horsley, I was fiddling around with superscripts on the iPad (which takes some time), and noticed you had posted while I was fiddling.  :)

No problem Ruskie.

I agree with your and Kay's subsequent posts.
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:49 BST (UK)
Could N B M be North British Militia  :-\   https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/142/scottish-militia
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Crumblie on Sunday 03 May 20 08:49 BST (UK)
Quote from: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 06:49 BST (UK)
Could N B M be North British Militia  :-\   https://www.forces-war-records.co.uk/collections/142/scottish-militia

I think it would have to be militia because it says "Major's Company" and you would not get that in the regualr army.
Title: Re: Help please
Post by: Kay99 on Sunday 03 May 20 09:50 BST (UK)
This site indicates the Ayr & Renfrewshire Militia was known as the 7th Regt of North British Militia
https://asahelena.wixsite.com/militarybuttons/volunteer-militia-buttons-a-b