The Craven Muster Roll, 1803

( Data Extracted by Derek Wrathall from North Yorkshire Record Office Publications No. 9 )

The document transcribed on the following pages was compiled when the threat of invasion by Napoleon made it necessary to prepare the whole of the active male population of the country for military training. It is entitled:

[Divi]sions of Staincliffe and Ewcross [in the West Riding] of the County of York. The Enrolment
under an Act of Parliament made and passed in the forty-third year of the Reign of His Majesty
King George the third Intituled An Act to enable His Majesty more effectually to provide for the
Defence of the Realm during the present War and for indemnifying Persons who may suffer in their
Property by such Measure as may be necessary for that Purpose and to enable His Majesty more
effectually and speedily to exercise his ancient and undoubted Prerogative in requiring the Military
Service of His liege Subjects in case of Invasion of the Realm - And also of another Act passed the
same Session of Parliament to amend the said last mentioned Act.

The acts referred to in this title required the compilation of lists of all men between the ages of seventeen and fifty-five, arranged in four classes:

Class 1 : unmarried men under thirty with no child living under ten years of age.

Class 2 : unmarried men between thirty and forty-nine inclusive with no child living under ten years
of age

Class 3 : married men between seventeen and twenty-nine inclusive with no more than two
children living under ten years of age.

Class 4 : others not included in above classes.

Judges, infirm persons, clergymen, medical men, Quakers, persons serving in the army, navy, marines, militia
and volunteers, Lords Lieutenant, Deputy Lieutenants, constables and peace officers were to be distinguished in the lists because they were to be exempt from military service under this act. Those willing to serve as volunteers under the act were also to be distinguished.

Township of Burnsall-cum-Thorpe:
William Wrathall - Housekeeper - Class 4

Conistone cum Kilnsey Township:
Stephen Wrathall - Farmer - Class 4
William Wrathall - Farmer - Class 4

Hartlington Township:
William Wrathall - Farmer - Class 1
Stephen Wrathall - blank - Class 4 - infirm

Grassington Township:
John Wrathall - Farmer - Class 4
Anthony Wrathall - Yeoman - Class 4 - infirm

Parish of Thornton:
Thomas Wrathall junr. - Farmer - Class 3 - Voluntary Service
Stephen Wrathall - Farmer - Class4
Thomas Wrathall - Farmer - Class 4
William Wrathall - Farmer - Class 4
John Wrathall - Farmer - Class 4

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Parishes and Townships of Craven in 1803.
Addingham Barnoldswick Bracewell Broughton with Elslack Burnsall Appletreewick Conistone with Kilnsey Cracoe Rylstone Hetton with Bordley Carleton (Burnsall) Hartlington Gargrave Bank Newton Coniston Cold Eshton Flasby with Winterburn Keighley Bradleys Cowling Farnhill & Cononley Glusburn Silsden Steeton with Eastburn Sutton Kettlewell Linton Grassington Hebden Threshfield Marton	Skipton Barden Draughton Embsay with Eastby Halton East with Bolton Stirton with Thorlby Thornton Arncliffe Buckden Haltongill Litton Bolton by Bowland Giggleswick Langcliffe Rathmell Settle Stainforth Gisburn Gisburn Forest Horton near Gisburn Middop Nappa Newsholme Paythorne Rimimgton Swinden Kirkby Malhamdale Airton Calton Hanlith Malham Malham Moor Otterburn Scosthrop	Long Preston Halton West Hellifield Wigglesworth Mitton Bashall Bradford west Grindleton Waddington Slaidburn Easington Newton Forest of Bowland Sawley cum Tosside Bentham Ingleton Clapham Austwick Lawkland Newby Horton on Ribblesdale Sedbergh Dent Garsdale Thornton in Lonsdale Burton in Lonsdale

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