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<blockquote>"...a comprehensive means of establishing dates of enlistment, movements throughout the world, and of discharge or death. The first entry may show age on enlistment. An entry on the form "Men becoming non-effective", sometimes to be found at the end of each quarter's musters, shows the birthplace, trade, and date of enlistment of any soldier discharged or dead during the quarter. From about 1868, at the end of each muster, may be found a Marriage Roll, which enumerates wives and children for whom married quarters were provided." </blockquote>
From '''1878 to 1898''', all muster rolls are in [http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/SearchUI/details?Uri=C14227 '''WO 16''']. The majority of the records for the years 1878 to 1888 contain detailed pay lists with names. From 1888 onwards (WO 16/2917-3049) the series consists of company muster rolls only, and these do not contain pay lists.
An 1889 example of data from a Marriage Roll can be seen [http://web.archive.org/web/20040417222802/members.ozemail.com.au/~clday/married.htm here] on Cathy Day’s archived site.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/historyofscotlan08browiala#page/n15/mode/2up ''The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII''] by James Browne 1909 Archive.org. This volume includes the regiments.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ybk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA1 "East Indies"] page 1 ''The Regimental Companion: Containing the Pay, Allowances and Relative Duties of Every Officer in the British Service, Volume 3'' by Charles James 7th edition, considerably enlarged 1811 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Ro9aAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Calculation Tables of Pay and Indian Allowances ... of European Commissioned Officers of all arms, of Her Majesty’s and the Hon’ble Company’s Service in the Presidencies of Bengal, Madras and Bombay etc''] by R Alexander Kerr, Head Assistant Presidency and Queen’s Troops’ Pay Office. Calcutta 1847 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=n1ABAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_navlinks_s#v=onepage&q=&f=false ''Strength, Composition and Organization of the Army of Great Britain''] by Capt Martin Petrie (1864) Google Books
*[http://archive.org/stream/armybookforbrit00daltgoog#page/n8/mode/2up ''The Army Book for the British Empire: A Record of the Development and Present Composition of the Military Forces and their Duties in Peace and War''] by William Howley Goodenough and James Cecil Dalton. HMSO 1893 Archive.org. Includes [http://archive.org/stream/armybookforbrit00daltgoog#page/n472/mode/2up "The Army in India"] page 442
