Does anyone out there have any ancestors in the Fencibles?
My 3xGreat Grandfather (John HARDIE 1773-1823) was a sergeant in the regiment and I am looking for any documentation on them I can find. It's not at the NAS and I have contacted Hopetoun House to no avail.
Can anyone make any suggestion as to where the documents (if they still exist) might be?
Thanks
Fiona
Hopetoun Fencibles
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bejantine78
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Hopetoun Fencibles
JOHNSTON, FOULIS, KIRK, BATHGATE - Fife
BATHGATE, HARDIE - Midlothian
BATHGATE, MURRAY, SIBBALD, MUIRHOUSE, DODD - East Lothian
HARDIE, LOVE - West Lothian
CAMPBELL, ROBERTSON, STEWART, MENZIES, CAMPBELL, McFARLANE, DYSART - Perthshire
KIDD - Angus
BATHGATE, HARDIE - Midlothian
BATHGATE, MURRAY, SIBBALD, MUIRHOUSE, DODD - East Lothian
HARDIE, LOVE - West Lothian
CAMPBELL, ROBERTSON, STEWART, MENZIES, CAMPBELL, McFARLANE, DYSART - Perthshire
KIDD - Angus
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Alan SHARP
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Re: Hopetoun Fencibles
Greetings Fiona.
While I can not answer your question, if you type the word fencible, in the search box at the very top of the page and then hit the SEARCH button, it will take you to the 28 forum posts on this site that mention fencibles. It will give you some back ground into the fencible units.
A larger site like RootsChat will have more posts but the way for a non registered user of the site to see them is to do an advance GOOGLE search. Type fencible in the first box and www.RootsChat.com in the last box and search.
Alan SHARP.
While I can not answer your question, if you type the word fencible, in the search box at the very top of the page and then hit the SEARCH button, it will take you to the 28 forum posts on this site that mention fencibles. It will give you some back ground into the fencible units.
A larger site like RootsChat will have more posts but the way for a non registered user of the site to see them is to do an advance GOOGLE search. Type fencible in the first box and www.RootsChat.com in the last box and search.
Alan SHARP.
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Currie
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Re: Hopetoun Fencibles
Hello Fiona,
The goings-on of the Hopetoun Fencibles has been fairly extensively covered in the thread you initiated on RootsChat. They seem to be saying that there are records at Kew but they’re in the name of the 7th or Southern Regiment of Fencibles. http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... c=394673.0
A separate search for Hopetoun Fencibles in Google Books and selecting full view may bring up some additional material. Cobbett’s Collection of State Trials, 1817, has a reference to Sergeant Hardy of the Hopetoun Fencibles in connection with the 1794 Treason trial of Robert Watt. Walker’s Hibernian Magazine of 1794 has the Hardie spelling.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mhZ ... 22&f=false
There are references to the Hopetoun Fencibles, including the Watt trial, in British Newspapers 1600-1900. If you don’t have access it is temporarily available down this track. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15443
Hope that helps,
Alan
The goings-on of the Hopetoun Fencibles has been fairly extensively covered in the thread you initiated on RootsChat. They seem to be saying that there are records at Kew but they’re in the name of the 7th or Southern Regiment of Fencibles. http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.ph ... c=394673.0
A separate search for Hopetoun Fencibles in Google Books and selecting full view may bring up some additional material. Cobbett’s Collection of State Trials, 1817, has a reference to Sergeant Hardy of the Hopetoun Fencibles in connection with the 1794 Treason trial of Robert Watt. Walker’s Hibernian Magazine of 1794 has the Hardie spelling.
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=mhZ ... 22&f=false
There are references to the Hopetoun Fencibles, including the Watt trial, in British Newspapers 1600-1900. If you don’t have access it is temporarily available down this track. viewtopic.php?f=1&t=15443
Hope that helps,
Alan
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Montrose Budie
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Re: Hopetoun Fencibles
Hi Fiona
The 7th regiment of fencibles, the Southern Regiment, or Hopetoun Fencibles; colonel James Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, existed from 2nd February 1793 to 1799.
The National Archives at Kew, holds the muster rolls of the Southern or 7th Fencibles for the period March 1793 - April 1799 under the reference WO 13/3942 and 3943.
Your ancestor must have transferred to another regiment when this regiment of fencibles was disbanded in 1799.
mb
The 7th regiment of fencibles, the Southern Regiment, or Hopetoun Fencibles; colonel James Hope, Earl of Hopetoun, existed from 2nd February 1793 to 1799.
The National Archives at Kew, holds the muster rolls of the Southern or 7th Fencibles for the period March 1793 - April 1799 under the reference WO 13/3942 and 3943.
Your ancestor must have transferred to another regiment when this regiment of fencibles was disbanded in 1799.
mb