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Irish Military Migration to France
Director: Professor Louis Cullen
Researcher: Dr Colm O Conaill
• Introduction • Database Details • Further Database Information•
• Notes On Reading Database • Publications • The Irish In Europe Project (NUIM) •
 Reasons For Leaving
• Death
• Desertion
• Discharge
• Promotion
• Transfer
• Courtmarshal (for those sent to the galleys, sentenced for crimes).
• Reform (of company or regiment, meaning that soldiers are released from service or transferred)
• Invalides (sent, retired to the Invalides hospital in Paris)
• Prisoner (See Berwick, Cullen 1756. One soldier said to have left as he was a prisoner of the English).
• Dismissal (renvoyé, chassé, rayé)
• Absent
• Resignation (retiré)
• Leave (congé de six/douze ans)
Rank/designation for NCOs.
| Private |
Bugler |
| Corporal |
Quartermaster |
| Sergeant |
Anspassade (nco grade below corporal) |
| Sergeant-Major |
Flute player (fifre) |
| Drummer (kettledrumer) |
Child (enfant) |
| Trumpeter |
Clarinet player |
| First Brigadier |
Cadet |
| Second Brigadier |
Gentleman Cadet |
| Volunteer |
Standard bearer |
Height Measurements
For infantry: 5 pieds 2 pouces = 1.678 metres or 5 foot 6 six inches in today's measurements.
For cavalry: 5 pieds 4 pouces = 1.732 metres or 5 foot 8 inches in today's measurements.
Place Names
Place names are often difficult to read or were misspelt when originally recorded in the registers. Efforts have been made to correctly interpret the names and locate the county for townlands but this has not always been possible. For more information on townlands/place names, see the following:
E. Hogan, Onomasticom Goedelicum locorum et tribuum Hiberniae et Scotiae: an index, with identifications, to the Gaelic names of places and tribes (Dublin, London; Hodges Figgis/William and Norgate, 1910).
William Petty/Y.M. Goblet/Irish Manuscripts Commission, A Topographical index of the parishes and townlands of Ireland in Sir William Petty's Mss barony maps (c.1655-9), (Bibliothèque nationale de Paris, Fonds anglais, Nos.1 & 2 and Hiberniae Delineatio (c.1672) / collected and edited by Y.M. Goblet.), (Dublin : Stationery Office, 1932).
Ireland . Registrar-General, General alphabetical index to the townlands and towns, parishes, and baronies of Ireland : based on the census of Ireland for the year 1851 , ( Baltimore : Genealogical Pub. Co, 1984).
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