Broad Street Wrington HISTORY
The 2nd Somerset Militia, 1803:
the Hundreds of Brent with Wrington, Bempstone and Winterstoke
by Adrian James Webb © 1999

The 2nd Somerset Militia was completed for service in 1759 and was disembodied on 30 December 1762. A rearrangement of the whole of the Somerset Militia took place in 1763 when the 2nd Somersets were disbanded and it wasn't until the outbreak of the French Revolutionary War in 1793 that they were again called into being1. The return of men transcribed below for the hundreds of Brent with Wrington, Bempstone and Winterstoke is a unique survival2.

1: W.J.W Kerr, Records'of the 1st Somerset Militia, Aldershot, 1930.
2:The original manuscript is in the possession of the author.
Brent cum Wrington Hundred

Return of Men serving in the 2d Somerset Militia Wells June 1803.
Parish
Principals
 Substitutes Remarks
Berrow
Burrington
do
do
Broadfield
East Brent
do
do
South Brent
Wrington
do

Wm Hix Jr.
Jas. Cockburn
Wm. Paines
John Parker
Wm. Chaard
Wm. Harden
Jas. Wilkins
John Bryant
Robt. Cates
John Whitely
Wm. Ashly

Chas Yeoman
John Ellis
John Weeks
John Millard
Wm. Edwards
Henry Reeves
Saml. Gosling
Wm. Tucker
Wm Russle
Saml. Stowell
Wm Philpot
Return of Men of the above Hundred wanting to complete the 2nd Somt. Militia
to the 1st Establishment
Berrow
Broadfield
do
East Brent
do
South Brent
do
do
Lympsham
do
Wrington
[written in margin] 		Saml. Hix
Thos. Hill
Thos. Ridley
Geo. Binner
Obeda. Lee
John Cox
Josh. Fisher
Jerh. Bagg
Robt. Petheram
Wm. Board
Danl. Hort
Thos. P. Cox [Principal]		 Henry Thompson
Richd. Ofter
Saml. Stevens
John Jacob
Wm. Kerton
John Keen
Heny. Taylor
David Rees
Thos. Best
Jno. Greenfield
Thos. Watts
Joseph Pyne [Substitute]		 Deserted
Not joined
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
Discharged
Bempstone Hundred

Return of Men serving in the 2nd Somerset Militia Wells 25th June 1803
Parish Principals Substitutes Remarks
Allerton
do
Huish juxta

do
do
Biddisham & Tarnock
do
Mark West
do
Blackford
do
do
Churchland
do
do
do
Upper Weare
Wedmore
do
do
do
do
do
do
do
East Mark

Robt. Evans
Jas. Harvey
Wm. Petheram
John Carde junr.
Jas. Daunton
Jas. Harden
Jno. Tutton
Geo Arney
Jno. Cook
Thos. Gilling
Heny. Hembury
Jno. Ridman
Geo. Durley
William Binnen
Jas. Tilley
JacobEvans
Thos. Stevens
Josh. Collins
Geo Kaseley
Jas. Tucker
Josh Coombs
Wm. Tucker
Jas. Twogood
Edwd. Edwards
Richd. Clark
John Banwell
Wm. Norris

 himself
John Buxton
Simon Vaughan
Thos. Saunders
Thos. Hannay
Benj. Reeves
Thos. Weeks
James Tutton
Geo. Reeves
Jno. Webb
Wm. Stock
Luke Smith
Wm. Tucker
Luke Buxton
Jno. Freestone
himself
Wm. Gale
Wm. Read
Jas. Cox
Jas. Kite
Saml. Tutton
Jno. Williams
Benjn. Major
Richd Randolph
James Waid
Willm Hurditch
himself















promoted
Return of Men of the above Hundred wanting to complete the 2nd Somerset Militia
to the 1st Establishment
Aston Morris
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Burnham & Moore
Mark West
Blackford
Lower Weare
East Mark
do
 Jas. Shobrook
Jas. Henbury
Robt. Culling
Geo. Salter
Geo. Champney
Wm. Tyther
Robt. Webber
Richard Wall

himself
Jas. Watts
himself
Francis Owen
Wm. Collier
Jas. Harse
himself
do

discharged3
notjoined4
do5
do
promoted
discharged6
not joined
promoted

3 Marginated Geo Halkins - sworn in 15 Novr. 1803.
4 Marginated George Wilking.
5 Marginated John Dunn - himself.
6 Marginated Thomas Major [Principal] Edwd. Morgan joined [Substitute].