Barren

  • Taking the Shilling

    Three families find India through the army In the spring of 1823, a young man named Jonathan Chadwick walked into a recruiting office in Huddersfield and joined the army, as the saying goes, he chose to ‘take the shilling‘. The recruitment papers say he was…

  • William Barren

    William Barren was my 3x great grandfather. He went to India in 1805 as a private in the 1st Battalion of the the 69th Regiment of Foot, later rising to the rank of sergeant. When the regiment went back to England, William remained behind and…