Fate of the recruits

       

SHS  List of persons concerned in the rebellion 1745-46  Earl of Roseberry (Edinbough, 1890)

PRO  Public record office, London

   .CO  Colonial Papers

MR  The muster roll of prince Charles Edward Stuart’s army 1745-1746  A. Livingstone (Aberdeen, 1984)

 

Andrew Wood

Captain

 

Glasgow

   

William Grant

Private

 

Inverness

   

David Crab

Private

 

Mid-Lothian

   

William Roy

Private

 

Lanark

   

Duncan Wright

 

Farmer in Appin.  Imprisoned Inverness, June 1746 prison ships Alexander & James, Liberty, Medway.  Transported 31.3.1747 from London to Jamaica

Argyllshire

SHS.3.410, PRO.CO137.58,

MR207

 

Angus Thomson

Soldier

Imprisoned 4.11.1745 Bruntsfield Links; 25.11.1746 Edinburgh Jail.  Released under general pardon, 1747.  “Late of Col Lee’s Regiment.  Confesses he was forced to join the rebels after having been confined and ill-used by them, but deserted so soon as he got an opportunity.”

Argyll

SHS.3.370

 

Duncan Stewart

 

Aged 21, Cattle herder, Breadalbane.  Imprisoned Inverness, prison ship James& Mary.  Transported 1747

Argyllshire

SHS.3.340

 

Donald Ross

Servant to Joseph Stewart of Cromar

Aged 24.  Imprisoned Inverness Sept 1746, prison ship James & Mary, Tilbury.  Transported 20.3.1747 from Tilbury.

Inverness-shire

SHS.3.288, MR207

 

Daniel Ross

 

Aged 26.  Imprisoned Inverness, June 1746 prison ship Margaret & Mary.  May have died.

Inverness-shire

SHS.3.286

 

Simon McKenzie

 

Aged 26.  Imprisoned Carlisle, Lancaster Castle, York Castle.  Executed York 8.11.1746.  He pleaded guilty at his trial at York on 2 October and was sentenced to death.

Inverness

SHS.3.134

 

John McFarlane

 

Drowned, Liverpool, 1 May 1747

 

SHS.1.187

 

Thomas Laing

 

Lead Miner, Taken, transported

Aberdeenshire