Militia Officers in the County of Tyrone, Northern Ireland 1745, 1746, 1761 & 1791

Extracted from FHL Film 0258514

Transcribed, Compiled and Submitted by
Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia
len_swindley[at]hotmail.com

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***ORIGINAL SPELLING HAS BEEN RETAINED***

A List of Officers in the Several Regiments & Independent Troops and Companies

of Militia in Ireland taken from the Books of the Secretaries Offices

Dublin: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LXI

Contractions:

C = Captain or Cavalry

I = Infantry

L.1 = 1st Lieutenant

L. 2 = 2nd Lieutenant

A REGIMENT OF DRAGOONS ARRAYED IN 1745

Colonel Right Hon. Earl of Blessington

Lt. Col. Wm. Stewart of Killemoon

Major Charles Eccles

 

CAPTAINS

James Moutray

Alexander MacCausland

Charles Usher

 

CAPTAIN LT.

Thos. Gledstanes

No appointment made of Subalterns

 

INDEPENDENT TROOPS OF DRAGOONS ARRAYED IN 1756

CAPTAIN Robert Lowry

Lt. Robert Ellis

Cornet Wm. Swan

Qr. Mr. Hamilton Pringle

 

CAPTAIN Charles Eccles

Lt. James Lowry Eccles

Cornet Wm. Buchanan

 

CAPTAIN Claude Hamilton

Lts. Wm. York

Claude York

Cornet Thomas Moffet

 

CAPTAIN James Hamilton of Woodbrook

CAPTAIN Thos. Knox

Lt. George Henyngton

Cornet Charles Worman?

CAPTAIN John McCausland of Strabane

Captain Charles O’Hara of Five-mile-town

Captain Thos. Knox, junior

Lts. Henry Ray

Clement Winnett

Cornet James Williams

Captain John Story

Captain John Hamilton of Dunimana

Captain ….. Nelson

Captain Andrew Thos. Stewart

Captain Alexander Stewart

Captain John Cairns

Captain Robert Barclay

Captain James Gledstanes of Fardross

Captain John Perry of Perrymount

Captain John Moore of Drumon

Captain John Manwell of Omagh

Captain Charles Hamilton

Arrayed in 1756 but no subalterns appointed except to two

 

Captain Galbraith Lowry of Aghenis

Acheson Moore of Aughnacloy

William Colhoun of Strabane

John Ferguson of Strabane

These four arrayed in 1745, but no subalterns appointed

 

INDEPENDENT COMPANIES ARRAYED IN 1745. NO SUBALTERNS APPOINTED TO THE FIRST

Captain Wm. Hamilton of Strabane: Captain Provost of Coagh for the time being

Lt. David Woods

Ensign John Johnston

 

INDEPENDENT COMPANIES ARRAYED IN 1756 BUT NO SUBALTERNS APPOINTED

Captain Francis Crawford

Captain Francis Houston

Captain John Perry

Captain Robert McClintock

Captain William Auchinleck

Captain James Stevenson, junior

Captain John Richardson

Captain Samuel Bell

 

YEOMANRY 1791 TYRONE

AUGHLARG & CLONOE CAVALRY

C= Anthony McReynold

L=1 Edward Butler

L= 2 John Weir

 

AUGHNAHOE INFANTRY

C=John Crossle

L=1 -

L=2 -

 

AHALOE [AGHALOO] CAVALRY

C= The Hon. Dupre Alexander

L=1 John Pringle

L= 2 John Crozier

 

ARDSTRAW CAVALRY

C= John Chambers

L= 1 --

L= 2 --

 

AUGHER & CLOGHER CAVALRY

C= Sir Wm. Richardson, Bt.

L= 1 James Taylor

L= 2 George Cairnes

 

BALNASAGGART CAVALRY

C= John Corry Moutray

L= 1 Stewart Milligan

L= 2 Leslie Moutray

 

BENBURB CAVALRY

C= Viscount Powerscourt

L= 1 Edward Eyre

L= 2 John Ryan

 

BENBURB CALVARY (sic)

C= Thomas Campbell

L= 1 Wm. Richardson

L= 2 Edward Harper

 

CASTLECAULFIELD CAVALRY

C= Edward Evans

L= 1 James Moore Irwin

L= 2 Alexander Stewart

L= 3 J. E. Evans

 

CASTLEGORE INFANTRY

C= John Bateman

L= 1 Wm. Caldwell

L= 2 Robert Whyte

 

CLARE INFANTRY

First Company

C= John Johnston

L= 1 James Nethery

 

COOKSTOWN CAVALRY

C= James Stewart

L= 1 -

L= 2 -

 

DUNGANNON INFANTRY

C= The Hon. Thos. Knox

L= 1 Wm. Murray

L= 2 James Anderson

L= 3 Robert Hall

 

FIVEMILETOWN INFANTRY

C= Charles King

L= 1 Oliver Bourke

L= 2 John King Irwin

 

FORT EDWARD (DONAGHMORE) CAVALRY

C= Waterh? Crymble Lindsay

L= 1 Thos. Moore

L= 2 John Falls

 

KILLYMAN INFANTRY

C= The Hon. Thos. Knox

L= 1 Jackson Lloyd

L= 2 Wm. Hazelton

L= 3 Abraham Dawson, sen.

L= 4 Thos. Trueman

 

LANGFIELD CORPS

C= James Galbraith

L= 1 Robert Sproul

L= 2 John Sproul

 

LOYAL GORTIN INFANTRY

C= Hon. A. Cole Hamilton

L= 1 Claudius W. Cole Hamilton

L= 2 Charles McLaughlin

L= 3 Armar McFarland

 

MOY INFANTRY

C= Benjamin Greer

L= 1 Richard Bryans

L= 2 Wm. Hunter

 

OMAGH INFANTRY

C= John Stewart

L= 1 Thos. Wann

L= 2 Dean Mann

 

POMROY INFANTRY

C= Robert Lowry

L= 1 -

L= 2 -

 

STEWARTSTOWN INFANTRY

C= John M. Staples

L= 1 Wm. Richardson

L= 2 Henry Bell

 

STRABANE INFANTRY

C= James Hamilton, jun.

L= 1 Matthew Edwards

L =2 Wm. Edie

 

URNEY INFANTRY

C= Wm. Stewart

L= 1 Edward Munns

L= 2 James Conyngham

 

Dublin Castle 23rd January 1797

By permission of his Excellency the Lord Lieutenant

 

A List of the Officers of the Several Districts of Ireland.

Together with the Dates of their Respective Commissions

And an Alphabetical Index

All commissions dated 31 October 1796

Dublin: Published by T. and A.B. King, No. 72 Dame Street, 1797

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