Catalogue description Settlement examination of Thomas Batchelor, private in the Royal Staff Corps in Captain Collerton's Company quartered in Winchelsea

he is twenty five years of age; was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire, where his father, Thomas Batchelor, lived and kept a public house by the name of the white lion on Amersham Common in Amersham and is buried in Amersham churchyard; when he was fourteen was bound apprentice for seven years to Henry Morton of Amersham, farmer, with whom he lived and served for four years; left his master between six and seven years ago and enlisted as a private soldier in His Majesty's fifty seventh Regiment of Foot; after remaining a few weeks in the regiment he volunteered at Chatham, Kent, into the Royal Staff Corps and has remained in the Corps ever since; on 18 Aug last he was married at Winchelsea to Mary Burwash, spinster, of Winchelsea

Formerly listed as PAR511/32/4/137