Discover your 18th century military ancestor in this index of half-pay officers from 1714. Officers named in the index would have fought during the War of Spanish Succession, a major European conflict from 1701 to 1714. Trace your family tree back centuries and reveal your ancestor’s rank and regiment.
Discover your 18th century military ancestor in this index of half-pay officers from 1714. Officers named in the index would have fought during the War of Spanish Succession, a major European conflict from 1701 to 1714. Trace your family tree back centuries and reveal your ancestor’s rank and regiment.
Each record includes a transcript which will include:
Name
Rank
Regiment
Establishment – either English or Irish
The index was created by Wienand Drenth, who published the 1714 list presented to Parliament in his 2012 A Regimental list of the Half-pay officers for the year 1714 on the English and Irish Establishments.
In 1714, after the Treaty of Utrecht and the end of the War of Spanish Succession, Parliament reduced the size of the British Army by almost 50 regiments. With the reductions in place, there were a high number of officers displaced. These officers were eligible for half-pay. Retirement for an officer was not available until 1871; instead, an officer could go on half-pay, which meant that he retained his commission and was available for future service but no longer active.
The names on the list of Half-pay officers represent 116 regiments.
Abraham Creighton's Foot
Alexander Grant's Foot
Andrews Windsor's Foot
Baron Ashburnham's Horse
Bouchetiere's Dragoons
Carrol's Dragoons
Charles Churchill's Foot
Charles Dubourgay's Foot
Charles Sybourg's Horse
Charles Wills' Marines
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards
Conyngham's Dragoons
Count Nassau's Foot
David Creighton's Foot
de Borle's Dragoons
Desbordes's Dragoons
Earl of Barrymore's Foot
Earl of Deloraine's Foot
Earl of Hertford's Foot
Earl of Hyndford's Dragoons
Earl of Wharton's Dragoons
Echlin's Dragoons
Edmund Fielding's Foot
Edward Jones' Foot
Edward Pearce's Dragoons
First Regiment of Foot Guards
Flanders Train
Foissac's Dragoons
Francis Alexander's Foot
Frederick Hamilton's Foot
George Hamilton's Foot
George Preston's Foot
George Villiers' Foot
George Wade's Foot
Gilbert Primrose's Foot
Gually's Dragoons
Hans Hamilton's Foot
Henry Disney's Foot
Henry Goring's Foot
Henry Holt's Marines
Henry Mordaunt's Foot
Heyman Rooke's Foot
Humphrey Gore's Foot
Jacob Borr's Marines
James Dormer's Foot
James Leigh's Foot
James Stanhope's Dragoons
James Tyrrell's Foot
Jamse Butler's Foot
Jasper Clayton's Foot
John Corbett's Foot
John Hill's Foot
John Michelburne's Foot
John Pepper's Dragoons
John Pocock's Foot
John Richmond Webb's Foot
Joseph Wightman's Foot
Leigh Backwel's Horse
Lord Charlemon's Foot
Lord Forfar's Foot
Lord Mark Kerr's Foot
Lord Mountjoy's Foot
Lord North & Grey's Foot
Lord Shannon's Marines
Lord Slane's Foot
Magny's Dragoons
Marquis d'Assa's Dragoons
Marquis de Montandre's Foot
Maurice Nassau's Foot
Nicholas Lepell's Dragoons
Nicholas Price's Foot
Owen Wynne's Foot
Phineas Bowles' Foot
Piercy Kirke's Foot
Richard Frank's Foot
Richard Gorges Foot
Richard Kane's Foot
Richard Lucs' Foot
Richard Molesworth's Foot
Richard Morris's Dragoons
Richard Munder's Foot
Richard Phillips' Foot
Richard Sutton's Foot
Robert Dalzell's Foot
Robert Echlin's Dragoon's
Roger Elliot's Foot
Roger Handasyde's Foot
Royal Fuziliers
Royal North British Fuziliers
Royal Regiment of Foot
Royal Regiment of Ireland
Royal Welsh Fuziliers
Sarlande's Dragoons
Scots Regiment of Foot Guards
Sir Charles Hotham's Foot
Sir John Wittewrong's Foot
Sir Robert Rich's Foot
Spanish Train
Theodore Vezey's Foot
Thomas Chudleigh's Foot
Thomas Harrison's Foot
Thomas Meredith's Foot
Thomas St. John's Foot
Thomas Stanwix's Foot
Viscount Windsor's Horse
Willam Evans' Foot
William Breton's Foot
William Kerr's Dragoons
William Newton's Foot
William Seymour's Foot
William Stanhope's Foot
William Steuart's Foot
William Windress' Foot
William Wolseley's Horse
Withers's Dragoons
Zachariah Tiffin's Foot