captain william cosh crommwels army

[davecosh]

there appear two be 2 coshes involved in the war parlimentry house of lords journalvol 7 16 july 1645

massing berd & mr cosh with sam booth shall have a pass to france with 3 horses [why i can not find a reason and it would of been dangerous for parlimentry men to go there]

house of commons journal vol 7 20 january wm cosh captain this was his commision he also got married at st james palace chapel

a john cosh was exchanged for another prisoner

how can i find any more information about this family

william also fought in ireland and was given land there;

[Geoffers]

Start with what TNA holds on army records for this period:
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/researchguidesindex.asp#b

As your chap was a Captain, hunt out E Peacock's book 'The Army List of Roundheads and Cavaliers'.

Warrants for commission are in State Papers SP44 at TNA
Licences to pass beyond the seas are in E157 at TNA

Soldiers owed pay after 1649 were given certificates known as debentures. These comfirmed what was owed and they were secured on lands confiscated by Parliament. Soldiers often took the land secured and sold it to recoup their owed pay. Certificates of sale of Crown Lands are recorded in E121 but they are difficult to search.

A similar scheme existed for soldiers who served in Ireland. Many debentures were sold on - unfortunately the documents have not survived. Some records have survived but they take a lot of hunting to track them down.

You might try the record of the Committee for Indemity (set up to indemnify parliamentary soldiers from legal action) these are at TNA in SP24.

how can i find any more information about this family
That to an extent, depends on what you want to find out.

Geoffers

[davecosh]

thanks for the information have sent for the book you recomended


dave cosh

[IvorCarr]

You might get somewhere by checking on his travelling companion, presuming that is they were travelling as a party. Drayner Massingberd (later Sir) was the youngest son of Thomas of Bratoft Lincolnshire. He had an estate at Ormsby and later added another at Ingoldmell. He was an active parliamentarian serving on a number of committees in his native county and also serving as a captain in the cavalry regiment of Lord Willoughby of Parnham. He left a fairly extensive archive, now in Lincoln Record Office, but it seems to have little on the civil war and there is no mention of Cosh in the on-line catalogue.