| Militia List for Canada West (1847) |
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(Preface by the transcribers...)
The six battalions of Durham, as listed in Major Joshua Thompson's compilation of the Militia Lists of Upper Canada for the year 1847, published in 1851. |
| | 1st Battalion | | 2nd Battalion | | 3rd Battalion | | 4th Battalion | | 5th Battalion | | 6th Battalion |
| Lieut. Colonel: | | William Wallis | | Allen Wilmot | | HS Reid | | John Thompson | | Alexander Preston | | George H. Grierson |
| Major(s): | | Charles S. Ruttan | | George A. Jacobs | | John C. Trull | | Patrick McGuire | | | | James Ceasar |
| | | | William Brock |
| Captains: | | W. Kirkpatrick | | Alexander Coulter | | Richard Jones | | John Knowlson | | Thomas Benson | | Francis W. Howe |
| | Eli W. Ward | | Hiram Hodge | | John Smart | | William Armstrong | | William Graham | | Matthew Emmerson |
| | George C. Ward | | George Winslow | | Fleetwood Cubitt | | Thomas M. Sowden | | Richard Staples | | Matthew Devitt |
| | Henry H. Meredith | | Elijah Z. Walbridge | | Frederick Cubitt | | James Magill | | Robert Magill | | James Hyland |
| | Joseph Green | | John J. Robson | | William Webster | | William Wallace | | | | William Taylor |
| | Walter Weller | | John Beavis | | John Brown | | Robert McCamus | | | | William Vance |
| | James J. Ward | | Noble Smith | | James Mann | | John Farr |
| | William Mitchell | | Samuel Wilmot | | Matthew Jones | | John Walsh, Jr. |
| | Alexander Fisher | | James P. Lovekin | | | | John W. Sootheran |
| | Robert Maxwell |
| Lieutenants: | | Frances H. Burton | | William Henderson | | Charles C. Neville | | Joseph Armstrong | | Porter Preston | | William H. Gerrow |
| | Lachlin McCallum | | Henry Munro | | David Fisher | | Joseph Thompson | | James Vance | | John Hooey |
| | Augustus Roche | | William Renwick | | John C. Holmes | | Thomas Syer | | William H. Jones | | Samuel Fergusson |
| | Robert N. Waddel | | William H. Rowe | | Nathaniel Wilson | | John Thorn | | William Hunter | | David Beacon |
| | Francis Beamish | | Horace Foster | | Charles Bates | | David Lough | | Joseph Magill | | Edward Willan |
| | William Furby | | John Kerr | | Boyd Sylvester | | William Myres | | | | William Lucas |
| | Peter Robinson | | George Smart | | Charles Fisher | | James Fitzgerald |
| | Thomas Henderson | | George E. Shaw | | Daniel Sutton |
| | William Allen |
| | Robert Wallace |
| | Robert Lang |
| Ensigns: | | John Reid | | Andrew Milligan | | Charles Bird | | Adam Scott | | Hamilton Kennedy | | James Emmerson |
| | John Smart | | Joseph Jacobs | | Richard Welsh | | William Reynolds | | Michael McAllister | | Robert Spinks, Sr. |
| | Robert Smart | | Andrew McNaughton | | David Buck | | David Walsh | | Thomas Staples, Sr. | | Robert McQuade |
| | Frederick Pearkes | | Robert Hodge | | James S. Bates | | Alexander Waddell | | James Johnston | | William Bruce |
| | Schuyler Marsh | | John McPherson | | | | Thomas Swain | | Archibald Wilson | | William Crozier |
| | Robert Fortune | | James Blackburn | | | | George Cain | | Robert Touchbourne | | John Hay |
| | William J. Joplin | | George Hunter | | | | Robert Staples | | Thomas Foster | | Wright Devitt |
| | George Lyall | | Thomas Tamblyn |
| | Thomas Turner | | William McIntosh |
| | Alexander Broadfoot |
| Adjutant: | | Lt. Augustus Roche | | Lt. GE Shaw | | | | | | Ensg. H. Kennedy | | Capt. FW Howe |
| Quarter Master: | | John Might | | Samuel McCoy | | Thomas C. Sutton | | William Walsh | | Robert Porteus | | John Hay |
| Surgeon: | | Samuel Gilchrist | | | | GH Low | | RW Brodie, M.D. | | James Brown |
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Peter and Barbara Bolton - Port Hope, Ontario
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