WELSH MILITIA AND VOLUNTEER CORPS, 1757-1908

1: ANGLESEY & CAERNARFONSHIRE

BRYN OWEN

PALACE BOOKS: CAERNAFON
1989

First Edition.

Llanerchymedd, Llandegai, Llanberis and Tremadoc are unlikely in any present day conversation to conjour up thoughts of military activity other than the sacrifices made during the two great Wars of this century or of recollections of troops stationed in, or moving through the districts during those eventful wartime years. Yet, Llanerchymedd was at one period during the 18th century the Headquarters of the Anglesey Regiment of Militia, whilst each of the three named Caernarfonshire communities supported a Corps of Rifle Volunteers during the 1860s. Great Great Grandmothers of long established Anglesey or Caernarfonshire families are often found by research to have originated in Dublin, Deal, Bristol or Berwick. Not so strange when one takes into account that each of those places was garrisoned by one, and sometimes both Regiments of County Militia, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Who then were the local Militia? Was there a reluctance to serve or were Volunteers always volunteers in the true sense of the word? Why were they formed, was it patriotism or compulsion?

Who were the Fencibles, and was there ever a Corps or Regiment who sported the title 'Snowdon Rangers'? Where are the records and rolls to be found for further research? The answer to these questions and reference to all source materials consulted will be found in the following pages.

21 x 15 cm. 245 pp.

Good condition, dust jacket faded on the spine and along the edges. Small stain to the top edge of the preliminary pages, otherwise clean and tidy.