Does "RA" indicate Royal Artillery?

[StevieSteve]

Doing a bit of preliminary work, I have 8th Coy, 5th Battallion stationed as

1846-47  Glasgow
1848       Fort Leith
1849-54  Canada ( though I have gaps at the moment between 1849- 1850)
1854 -55  passage from Canada
1855       Jersey

and then on to Gibraltar

which fits nicely into your timings

[Gene-ee-us]

Thanks for this. In Jim's day, Thornliebank was only about 3 miles or so from Glasgow, so it would be quite possible that a recruiter was in his neighbourhood. Perhaps he knew they would eventually be going to Canada, or some other foreign place, and looked upon it as a way to leave the calico factory? The dates you have so far, and the time he appears to have left the army might indicate such a scheme.

Thanks again.
Geneeeus

[StevieSteve]

Well, "time-consuming" was certainly accurate

Each item consists of the Pay Lists of about half a dozen battalions. Each contains 6 months of Payrolls and a copy that was sent back to London.

The paylists consist of an approx A3 sheet of card folded into 4 pages listing everybody's pay plus any deductions for sickness, ill discipline etc + details of what happened to deceased / deserters' effects

I'll list each batch I looked at in the next few posts

There's a daily rate of pay so all the months with 31 days etc have the same figure

[StevieSteve]

WO 10/2099 Halifax NS under command of Captain J McCoy

James Coubrough, Gunner & Driver 7th Class

Oct 1851     £ 1-19-4 3/4       Ordnance Works
Nov             £ 1-18- 1 1/2
Dec       
Jan 1852                               Docked 1s 5 1/2 for sick between 17/1 - 21/1
Feb             £ 1-16-10 1/4      Cook
Mar             

[StevieSteve]

WO 10/2103 Halifax NS under command of Captain J McCoy

James Coubrough, Gunner & Driver 7th Class

Apr 1852     £ 1-18- 1 1/2       Cook
May             £ 1-19- 4 3/4
Jun       
Jul                                         Ordnance Works             
Aug           
Sep           

[StevieSteve]

WO 10/2163 St John, NB under command of Captain HA Smyth

James Coubrough, Gunner & Driver 6th Class

Oct 1853     £ 2-1-11 3/4       
Nov             £ 2-0- 7 1/2
Dec       
Jan 1854                             
Feb             £ 1-17-11   
Mar             

[StevieSteve]

WO 10/2166 St John, NB under command of Captain HA Smyth

James Coubrough, Gunner & Driver 6th Class

Apr 1854     £ 2-0- 7 1/2       Carteton Tower
May             £ 2-1- 11 3/4     Carteton Tower
Jun                                      Carteton Tower
Jul                                       Carteton Tower
Aug                                     Carteton Tower
Sep           

[StevieSteve]

WO 10/2196 Battalion back at Woolwich

James Coubrough - transferred to 4 Company 10 Battalion from 1/10/1854


which is when time ran out

I'm perfectly happy to continue with this but looks like it could take several visits (I go once a month)

Steve

[km1971]

3.5d per day was deducted while in hospital as food was provided.

Ken