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Thanks for that. George was one of the little mysteries in the family, & Rachel & I have had some discussions about him.

His father said to a court in 1820 or so that he'd become a soldier & died in Ireland, & that he'd died before an event which it was possible to date to 1803.

It seemed very likely that he was the George who married at Ramsbury, husband of the widow Sarah Washington who remarried in Buckinghamshire 1800, & father of the Charles Washington who kept appearing in Buckinghamshire censuses with a vague or unknown place of birth - but without the information you've kindly supplied from the PRs, it wasn't certain.

I reckon that now it's as sure as it can be. It's unlikely that there was more than  one George Washington in the Bucks Militia in 1795, & everything else fits.

PS. I'm descended from one of George's brothers. Four were in the army, Charles transferred from the militia 1799, William private in the 3rd Bn, 14th foot at Waterloo, Thomas in the militia from 1803, army 1807-1827: got a bullet in the left thigh at the battle of Corunna (1809), & served 9 years ;in the east'. Discharge signed & sealed at Meerut. He seems to have had a wife & at least one  child who died in India.

A nephew joined the army, & fought in the first Afghan war, later emigrating to New Zealand under a free passage scheme for old soldiers.

Married William Harris 12 Dec 1786 at Bradenham by licence. He of Ivinghoe.
Adult baptism 20 Apr 1788 at Princes Risborough, a week after her daughter Catherine.

Her daughter Lydia was baptised aged 26 at Chinnor, OXF, after marriage. "Stated that she was baptd as an infant at Presbyterian Meeting House at Princes Risborough (Bucks).".

I suspect the first Lydia also had a noncomformist baptism, & perhaps her husband William.

Does anyone know if the Princes Risborough meeting house records have survived?

I'd always wondered about the origin of the name. There were some URLWINs & URLWINGs in SE Bucks before 1700, but I couldn't find any connection to them, & they seemed to carry on after the IRVINGs (& variants) appeared elsewhere in the region. Searches of the IGI, & the local family history society databases, came up with the same conclusion, that there were no Irvings in the area before the 1690s, when several men with the name suddenly appeared.

I knew that IRVING was a common name in southern Scotland & the English border regions, but I didn't see why a bunch of Scots or northeners would all decide to come south at once. Then I heard, via Celia Renshaw, of Margaret Spufford's “The Great Reclothing of Rural England – Petty Chapmen and their Wares in the Seventeenth Century”, She took it so much for granted that many travelling chapmen were Scottish that she paid the fact little attention. I did a little digging, & the few scraps I found appeared to confirm it.

There was also a dissident connection, with Presbyterian Scots typically finding English dissenters more congenial than the Church of England. This fits quite well, as although they didn't leave any records I know of, we know there were noncomformist meetings in Bledlow in the late 17th century, & the names of some of the members - mostly from complaints by the church authorities. The family my William married into seems to have been involved. It all adds up.

I don't have any special records. I found the transcription of Bledlow PRs by Dexter Eustis useful (on May Lanchbury's website at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~lanchbury/, where she also hosts my 1841 census transcriptions), but be aware that it's not complete, because he didn't have access to complete records. I'm able to visit the archives in Aylesbury, Oxford (though they're shut for the next month) & Reading, which is an advantage many people don't, & buy searches & CDs from the local familiy history societies, which anybody can. Other researchers have been helpful.

Further to what Bucksgirl said:

The only certificates that can be purchased are for civil registration records, which began in 1837. For church records, you can look at microfilms of the registers (the original books are looked away) in the county archives.

You may be able to get a photocopy of the entry from Bucks Archives. Web page as given by bucksboy.  Telephone 01296 382587 (+44 1296 382587 from abroad) or email archives@buckscc.gov.uk

Mudgeemaind? From Mudgee? I once visited it, when I was working in Australia in 1999. Some nice local wine, I remember, & a restaurant with excellent food, mostly from local ingredients, which we washed down with several bottles we'd bought while touring vineyards.