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Rosinish, a town in Germany is a possibility, especially as Regiment of Foot Guards were in Germany fighting at the time when Barnes would have signed up. The problem with Hainichen, however, is that it is in Saxony and that the Saxon troops - and Population - had no contact with the english troops. They were fighting a couple of hundred miles away so there would be nom reason for barnes to have joined the English guards. If you had said Hanua, or Frankfurt, Verden or Dettingen............... but they are all too far away - unfortunately.

@ Josey, I agree that we are most probably looking for a bigish town/City, be it in England, Scotland, Germany or Netherlands.

I will be in London end of March and I plan to visit the National Archives to look at the muster Rolls/Pay books of the 1st Foot Guards. As These documents haven't been digitised yet. I will have to wait until then before I possibly uncover a bit more Information. I will also visit the home of the old 1st Regiment of Foot Guards in Waterloo Baracks where the Grenedier Museum now is. Ask them a few questions.

Hi Annie,
Barnes served in the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards - the ones mainly based in London for the protection of the Monach. They later became the Grenider Guards, not to be confused with the 1st Regiment of Foot who later became the Scots Guards.
I was very confused by this at the begining until the difference was explained to me.
 If you look at the documents,  most were members of a Foot Regiment not a Foot Guard Regiment. Those who were Foot Guards were born in Barnet, Tunbridge and Kittering and it is now one of the reasons why I am not too certain regarding a scottish birthplace. I suspect or mayby I am just hoping for, a Home Counties birthplace

Even more sadly I think you are right. I let myself be led astray by the transcription and hope.
Ah well, back to the drawing board!

If we cannot agree on the first letter, what do you think the second one is?

Josey,
Looking at the page again I see that there are at least two handsr writing Inverness.
Looking at the one for Finlay McInzie I see that the writer definately starly at the bottom and not at the top as I originally suggested. However although both hands go anticlockwise initially, the "I" starts with a full circle whilst the (possible) "S" definitely starts with a half circle.

Whichever is correct, I still cannot come up with  place name if we discount Inch.
I suppose it might be German seeing as Duke of Cumberland was Commanding Officer and some battalions of the 1st Foot Guards were in Germany at times -
I hadn't thought of that! And there are a lot of Boot(e)s in the Netherlands. But Barnes is not a Christian Name in either of those countries.
Funny, someone else also came up with the Barnes-Mothers surname theory but the only Boot/Barnes marriage I came up with was in 1852.

Hi Venelow and Josey,
@ Josey, Venlow is correct and beat me to informing you. The WO116 complete series can be downloaded free of charge, you just need to register. I downloaded the WO116/6 document and it is of better quality that the copy I had before. However, not all of the WOs have been digitised and you will still need to go to the NA to look at some of them.

@ Venelow, many thanks for this and I agree with the flowery hand. As there are quite a number of scottish birth places on the page, it might well be Inch.
However if I compare the "I" from Inverness to my one, in Inverness the hand seems to start at the top, going to the right and then up before coming down and finishing with a loop. It might even start at the bottom but then it goes up and to the left to complete the loop before going up. I do not think that this is the case in my word.
If you compare the word Sickly just two lines up from Barnes, I believe that the "S" is identical to the starting letter of my word, both starting to go down in a half loop before going up.

However, my Problem with that is I cannot find any town starting with an S which could fit so maybe I am completly wrong. What do you think?

Whatever the word is, I think it must be a town as it doesn't make sense (to me at least) to be near India, near Essex, near Scotland etc. In such a case he would have written In india, Essex, Scotland etc as he has done for other entries.