| 10. | James Blair was born on 16 Jun 1769 in Pitmedle, Kinnaird Parish, Perthshire, Scotland; was christened on 18 Jun 1769 in Kinnaird by Errol Parish, Perthshire, Scotland (son of George Blair and Margaret Greig); died before 1834 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Watson's Corners, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Other Events and Attributes:
- FamilySearch ID: LZGQ-PLN
- Name: Blain
- _UID: 4CEF6FC0C5C84A00A7892F5836AAE101BAAD
- Occupation: 1780, Scotland; weaver
- Location: 1820, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Concesssion 1 Lot 8E
- Immigration: 1820, Dalhousie Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Brig Brock - Lanark Society Settlers Anderson and Rutherglen Transatlantic Emigration Society
Notes:
?i?From Ted Miller 6 Jan 2018
?/i?I thought both of you might enjoy viewing the attached historical documents, part of the legacy of Gertrude May Miller (1890-1981), the youngest daughter of Stewart Miller (1842-1926) and his second wife, Janet Conroy (1853-1930).
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?/i?Purely by chance about 6 months ago, I met up with my long separated cousin, Beverly tenDen, the Grand Daughter of Aunt Gertie, and in the midst of our first conversations i asked if she had anything from her Father, Alexander Hurst (1878-1948), in the way of Miller Family History.
Beverly remembered that in the box of "stuff" her Father left her, were several of her Grandmother's Photo Albums,in addition to some Fox and Hurst Family History. Beverly kindly loaned some of Aunt Gertie's photos to me to scan.
I am still digesting what the photos revealed about the old Miller, Hurst and Conroy Families, but amongst the documentation were the two documents shown below. There were also several "tin-type photos", mostly of Stewart Miller and Janet Conroy. It certainly appears that Aunt Gertie was quite the gatherer of Family History, as you will see shortly.
Gertrude May Hurst (nee Miller) and her two daughters, Muriel Gertrude Shiels (1912-2001) and Maxine Oline Fox (1913-2006) were well known to Ernest Miller, Diane's Father, along with Gertie's Brother, Samuel (1888-1959). The four later Miller Family members took an active part in Ernie's search for Miller Family History, and were regular attendees at the Glen Tay Annual Miller Family gatherings.
The first document attached below, is a scan of the Discharge Papers of LCol James Blair (1769-1934) from the British Army, and are dated 1807. The document is extremely fragile. Beverly is offering the Discharge Papers to the British Army Museum for Historical value and Display. The Canadian War Museum were not interested as James was not a Canadian at that time and his military service did not include any time in Canada.
The second document shown below, also attached, is a copy of the advertisement for the Immigration Vessel "BROKE" leaving Greenock for Quebec City on 19th June, 1820; one might notice the difference from the "Broke" to the "Brock". Perhaps a difference in spelling between England and Canada??.
The 3rd reference is a page from the Book, "A Pioneer History of the County of Lanark", which mentions the arrival of James Blair in Canada aboard the Brock in the summer of 1820.
I have absolutely no idea how Aunt Gertie got her hands on these Blair Family documents; but the fact that these Blair Family documents ended up in the hands of Gertrude May Hurst (nee Miller) should prove beyond a doubt that Margaret Blair (1802-1871), the wife of John Miller (1806-1871), was the daughter of James Blair.
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From Charles McFadden 6 Jan 2018
?/i?John Lawson Senior would have known James Blair and well. On the list in the Colonial Office in the London National Archives James Blair is entry 5 and John Lawson Senior is entry 6.
1820 -The Brock, also called in early days the Broke at Ted points out.
On board: Part of his party of '96
James Blair Lanark Society Settler
5th Garrison/Veteran Battalion of Foot
26th Regiment of Foot; 3 years 4 months
The 26th being The Cameronians.
Witness to discharge '96 Daniel Drummond.
( My Drummonds in Ramsay at Almonte/Ramsayville were from Comrie, Perthshire, Scotland and the name Daniel is used by them )
?b?The Cameronians?/b?
Personal Regiment of the Earl Lord Douglas, Earl of Angus Colonel of the Cameronians.
The first Earl of Angus was married to Princess Mary of Scotland, the daughter of Robert III of Scotland. The Uncle of the second Earl of Angus was King James I of Scotland. Brought into Government service by the Earl Lord Douglas, Earl of Angus who supported the National Covenant and William of Orange for the throne. Militant Presbyterian wing of the British Army. Not just a fighting force but a "congregation." Carried bibles.
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?/i?And the personal regiment of the Earl Lord Dalhousie. As I said before '96.
?b?Dalhousie's movements :?/b?
1770 23rd Oct. Born at Dalhousie Castle, Midlothian
1788 Cornet in 3rd Dragoons
1791 Captain in 1st Foot (Royal Scots)
1792 June. Major in 2nd Foot
1793 Commanded 2nd in Martinique
1794 Aug. Lieutenant-Colonel
1795 Severely wounded at Martinique
1798 Irish Rebellion
1799 Flanders campaign
1800 Brevet Colonel
1801 Egypt
1803 Brigadier-General on the staff, in Scotland
1805 April. Major General
1813 Commanded 7th Division in Peninsula
1813 3rd and 7th Divisions at Battle of Vittoria
1813 Lieutenant-General
1813 21st May. Colonel of 26th Cameronians
1815 General at Battle of Waterloo
1815 Created Baron Dalhousie
1816 Governor of Nova Scotia
1820 Governor-General of British North America
1829 Commander-in-Chief of India up to 1832
1838 Died on 21st March
1847 His son James, 10th Earl of Dalhousie, became the youngest ever Governor-General of India.
Also part of John McLachlan's party '96 -
?b?John Lawson Senior.?/b?
1806 Soldier Army of the Reserve
1813 2nd Veteran/garrison Battalion of Foot
Service
British Army Regiment under the personal command of Earl Lord Dalhousie with James Blair.
Dalhousie Colonel of the Cameronians.
Rank. Colour Sergeant of the 26th Regiment of Foot .
9 years 200 days.
Ultimately fully discharged 24th June 1818.
Served 14 years 328 days in the British Army.?i?
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Notice just where James Blair is discharged - Dublin. Earl Lord Dalhousie's troops spent time in Ireland during the Napoleonic Wars as Ireland was strategically important to the British.
?i?From Charles McFadden 7 Jan 2018
?b??/i?James Blair's Commanding Officer in the 5th Garrison Battalion?/b??i?
?b??/i?Lt Col Robert Smythe?/b?
Lieutenant-Colonel in 5th Garrison Battalion 1807; Lieutenant-Colonel in 90th Foot 16 June 1808; commanded 2/90th Foot 1808 to 1810; retired March 1810.
( Commanding Officer of the 5th Garrison Battalion at the time, so James Blair's commanding officer in the 5th Garrison/veteran battalion )
The 90th Perthshire Light Infantry was a Scottish light infantry regiment of the British Army, raised in 1794. Under the Childers Reforms it amalgamated with the 26th (Cameronian) Regiment of Foot to form the Cameronian (Scottish Rifles) in 1881.
The regiment became the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) on absorbing the Perthshire Volunteers in 1802. A second battalion was raised in September 1804 but never left the United Kingdom. The 1st Battalion embarked for the West Indies in January 1805 and was garrisoned on Saint Vincent. It saw action at the invasion of Martinique in January 1809[ and at the invasion of Guadeloupe in January 1810. The battalion then sailed for Canada in May 1814 and was garrisoned in Quebec during the War of 1812. The regiment became the 90th Regiment of Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) (Light Infantry) in May 1815. The 1st Battalion arrived for Ostend in August 1815 for service as part of the Army of Occupation of France. It absorbed the 2nd Battalion in 1817.
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From Charles McFadden, 8 Jan 2018
?/i?John Lawson Senior would have known James Blair and well. On the list in the Colonial Office in the London National Archives James Blair is entry 5 and John Lawson Senior is entry 6.
?i?From Charles McFadden, 8 Jan 2018
?/i?James Blair and John Lawson knew each other very well and no doubt also after James Blair was discharged in 1807. They are in the same Emigration Society in Glasgow and they sail together on the Brock with their families.?i?
From Charles McFadden, 9 Jan 2018
?/i?James Blair enlists into the 26th Regiment of Foot based on the evidence we have looks to me to be '96 follow along -
1 August 1803, so August 1803 + 3 years and 4 months service in the 26th Cameronians Regiment of Foot equals December 1806 when he is transferred to the 5th Garrison battalion of Foot in Ireland. (Matches Regiment details we have that I sent) and he serves one year there in the 5th Garrison Battalion of Foot being discharged Dec 12 at Dublin, Ireland.
Here is why I am examining it '96 John Lawson enlists August 1, 1803 into the 26th Cameronian Regiment of Foot as a private. His discharge is more specific and lists exact service dates to the day and rank. He enlists as a private, then becomes a corporal, then a Sergeant and then the Colour Sergeant of the 26th Cameronian Regiment of Foot.
For instance he is a private upon enlistment for 3 years and 166 days. Thus James Blair and John Lawson served as privates together up until December of 1806 when James Blair moves to the 5th Garrison battalion of Foot and when John Lawson becomes a corporal and about a year after James Blair is discharged John Lawson becomes a Sergeant in 1808 and then the Colour Sergeant of the 26th Cameronian Regiment of Foot so 1808 is before the battles of Corruna and Walcheren.
This also matches in the following ways to name a few
'96 5 of John's children are born before he enlists 1 August 1803 and from then in 1803 until 1815 there are only 3 more births during a time period of 12 years which explains the gaps until more children are born after 1815.
- also he is an immense Presbyterian as we know as evidenced by his being Head of the Presbyterian Sessions of Lanark and Dalhousie Townships which one would expect a Cameronian to be.
I'd say that the evidence looks to me and it is solid like they enlisted together which indicates I believe that they knew each other before 1803 when they enlisted into the British Army.
Also, many of the emigration societies were named after the places in Glasgow, Lanarkshire from whence they lived and came and they are both in same spot as are in same Anderston and Rutherglen Transatlantic Emigration Society. Anderston is an area of Glasgow in Barony parish, Lanarkshire. It is on the north bank of the River Clyde. Rutherglen is a town in South Lanarkshire 21/2 miles from Glasgow. The drive from Anderston to Rutherglen is 4.4 miles.
Who would have ever thought. And here we are 215 years later after 1803 after they both enlisted, and James Blair belongs to Ted and John Lawson to me and James Baird is on the ship with them in 1820 he being Diane's 4 great grandpa and we now know it, have figured it out, and are talking to each other about it all.
?i?From Charles McFadden, 9 Jan 2018?/i?
James Blair and John Lawson enlisted into the 26th Cameronian Regiment of Foot as privates on same date 1 August 1803.
?b?26th Regiment of Foot.?/b?
James Blair private and John Lawson Colour Sergeant in the 26th ( The Cameronian ) Regiment of Foot. Brig Brock 1820, Lanark Society Settlers settled on their lots by Governor General Dalhousie.
?b?26th (The Cameronian) Regiment of Foot - (1786)?/b?
1795'961801: Lt-Gen. Hon. Sir Charles Stuart, KB
1801'961806: Lt. Gen. Andrew Gordon [also 59th Foot, 89th Foot]
1806'961813: Lt-Gen. John Elpinstone, 12th Lord Elphinstone
1813'961838: Gen. George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie, GCB
1838'961854: F.M. Sir John Colborne, 1st Baron Seaton, GCB, GCMG, GCH
1854'961862: Gen. Sir Philip Bainbrigge, KCB
1862'961881: Gen. George Henry MacKinnon, CB
?b?Regimental History of the 26th Regiment of Foot ( Cameronians )?/b?
1689: 19 April - raised in Douglas from Scots covenanters
1804: 28 April - 2nd battalion formed in Stirling
1814: 24 October - 2nd Battalion disbanded in Dumbarton
?b?Colonels?/b?
1762: 16 May, Sir William Erskine, Bart.
1795: 25 March, Hon. Sir Charles Stuart, C.B.
1801: 28 March, Andrew Gordon
1806: 24 April, John, Lord Elphinstone
1813: 21 May, George, Earl of Dalhousie, K.B.
?b?Stations and Combats '96 1st Battalion?/b?
1793: New Brunswick '96 St John; Isle-aux-Noix
1794: St John; August - Montreal
1795: Montreal; July '96 Quebec; November - Montreal
1796: Quebec
1797: Montreal; May '96 received draft of 350 men from 4th Foot; Quebec
1798: Quebec
1799: Quebec; May '96 Montreal; November - Quebec
1800: Quebec; May '96 Halifax; September - to England; Portsmouth
1801: Portsmouth; May '96 to Egypt; July '96 Aboukir; Alexandria; high number ophthalmia cases; October '96 to England
1802: February '96 Plymouth; received volunteers from Royal Irish Fencibles; November '96 to Leith; Stirling; December '96 Portpatrick
1803: Stirling Castle; February '96 Fort George; July '96 Leith; Stirling; December '96 Portpatrick; To Ireland '96 Belfast; Armagh
1804: May '96 Belfast; Ballinasloe; Curragh; October - Ballinasloe
1805: Ballinasloe; May '96 received 400 volunteers from Irish Militia; June - Athlone; August '96 Cork; November '96 to Hanover; Maria & Aurora transports wrecked, 488 men and 52 women/children lost; 4 companies reached Hanover
1806: Cuxhaven; February '96 to England; Ramsgate; Faversham; March '96 Ashford; October '96 Dover; December - Deal
1807: Deal; May '96 Ramsgate; to Ireland; Cork; received drafts from Scots militia regiments
1808: Curragh; Fermoy; June '96 received 477 drafts from 2/26th; October '96 to Spain; Corunna; Lugo; Astorga; Sahagun; Lugo
1809: CORUNNA; to England; Horsham '96 350 men left; received volunteers from Lanarkshire Militia; June '96 received 200 drafts from 2/26; July '96 Portsmouth; to Walcheren; Flushing; to England - Portsmouth
1810: Horsham; 90 fit men left (rest in hospital); April '96 Burdett Riots; June - Jersey
1811: Jersey; June '96 to Peninsula; July - Lisbon; Almeida
1812: Spain '96 high rate of fever sickness; March '96 Lisbon; June - Gibraltar
1813: Gibraltar; received 140 drafts from 2/26th; September '96 plague outbreak
1814: Gibraltar; December '96 received 275 men from 2/26th
1815: Gibraltar (until 1822)
?b?Stations and Combats '96 2nd Battalion?/b?
1804: 28 April '96formed in Stirling and Linlithgow; Borrowstowness; Portpatrick - to Ireland; Belfast; Athlone; June '96 Curragh; October - Athlone
1805: Athlone; June - Dublin
1806: Dublin; October '96 462 men into 5th Garrison Battalion
1807: Dublin; to Scotland; July - Glasgow
1808: Glasgow; June '96 477 drafts to 1/26th
1809: Glasgow; June '96 Haddington; 200 drafts to 1/26th
1810: Haddington
1811: Haddington; June - Glasgow
1812: Glasgow; May - Dumfries
1813: Dumfries; 140 drafts to 1/26th; September - Kilmarnock
1814: Kilmarnock; March '96 Glasgow; Dumbarton; 24 October '96 battalion disbanded '96 275 men to 1/26th in Gibraltar.
Look who replaces the Earl Lord Dalhousie as Lieutenant Colonel of the Cameronian Regiment, 26th Regiment of Foot.
John Colborne. British Field Marshal, Baron Lord Seaton who Wellington sends along with Maitland ,(the hero's of Waterloo), to support Dalhousie (one of Wellington's Generals at Waterloo), as Governor General Canada. So Colborne and Maitland who crushed the French Imperial Old Guard, pride of the French Nation at Waterloo.
John Colborne, 52nd Light Infantry Brigade Waterloo. Colborne also crushes the Canadian Rebellions in 1837, assuming personal command in the field of the British Army in North America, and in 1838 his forces rout the American Invaders at Prescott, His Majesty appoints Colborne in a time of great crisis as Governor General of the Province of Canada. Colborne was considered to be the best officer in the entire British Army other than the Iron Duke himself.
In 1838, the Lanark Militia, the Carleton County Militia ( called out by William Morris, Perth half pay officer, champion of the Church of Scotland, instrumental in the founding of Queen's college by Royal Charter ) and the other local militia's settled inland in the Old Bathurst District in 1820 and 1821 march southwards to the sound of the guns to join Governor General Colborne's forces and to repel the American invaders.
?b?The Visit 1836?/b?
There was excitement everywhere you went. Men buzzed, women fluttered and children just couldn't stay still. The whole of Lanark County was abuzz.
The Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, Sir John Colborne, hero of Waterloo , British Field Marshall, was coming to Perth .
Not since the 4th Duke of Richmond's visit in 1819, some sixteen years before, had such an exalted personage graced this small community with his presence.
Although it was the capital of the District and the judicial, administrative and social centre for the interior, Perth was remote and until the recent completion of the Rideau and Tay canals, difficult to reach, so you can imagine the stir the visit created. Not since the battle of Chrysler's farm had many of these men been challenged to devise such delicate strategies. Tactical placement of militia officers, magistrates, merchants, men of the cloth, their wives, and daughters, at the courthouse took on the importance of a full scale campaign, and the Lanark Militia was present some 900 strong. They even fired the cannon at the courthouse for the Field Marshall.
The Perth Guns at the Perth Court House were given to the Town of Perth by Earl Lord Dalhousie in 1820. They had been used by General John Burgoyne & the British Army in 1777 when Burgoyne headed south to invade the 13 Colonies. The guns were lost at Saratoga where Burgoyne was defeated but recaptured by the British at the Battle of Chrysler's Farm in the War of 1812.
The guns are an important part of Perth's symbolism and setting. They evoke the military origins of pioneer settlement and the role of the militia in defending the country, and they serve as a landmark in the collective memory of the community.
Rebellion may be brewing elsewhere but it is most certainly not in the Old Bathurst District.
If you examine the 26th information you will see that James Blair is in the 5th Garrison Battalion in Ireland in 1806 and that he is discharged in Dublin in 1807 and it also tells us that he moves from the 26th Regiment of Foot to the 5th Garrison battalion in 1806 and thus he is in the 26th Regiment of Foot for the time stated in his discharge papers before 1806. In other words he would have been at Stirling Castle and Fort George for instance. So James Blair is discharged before the 26th Regiment of Foot fights at Corruna with the Iron Duke and then at Walcheren with the Duke of York Commander in Chief of the British Army. The 20th Regiment of Foot also fights at Corruna and Walcheren and I mention it Ted and Diane as Elizabeth Campbell's father served in the 20th Regiment of Foot and Elizabeth is mother in law of James Robinson son of Arthur Robinson and Ann Miller '96 the file that Diane sent to me.
I can place John Lawson in the 1805 time period in Althone with both the First and the Second Battalion of the 26th Regiment of Foot. ( See above )
What confused me originally but I now get is that as Dalhousie, Sir George Ramsay's Colour Sergeant John Lawson would have moved back and forth between the First and Second Battalions of the 26th Regiment of Foot for training purposes etc as just an example. I was trying to determine exactly which battalion of the 26th that James Blair and John Lawson were in and it is the First Battalion which not right word but 'fights" the major battles as you can see for instance the second battalion troops being moved to the first battalion to reinforce it say after training as an example.
Anyways, it all fits John Lawson being with both of the battalions of the 26th Regiment of Foot at one time or another and he is discharged in 1818 at you got it - Gibraltar.
And hence as you can see would on that date and time be with the First Battalion of the 26th Regiment of Foot..
So whether at any given time he is with the 1st or 2nd battalion I do not think matters much as he is after all with the 26th Regiment of Foot in any case.
Also interesting - you can see that Dalhousie's Regiment the 26th is not with him at Waterloo as it is in Gibraltar in 1815.
Also '96 The First Jacobite Rebellion. Lord Mar's revolt where he fights at Sheriffmuir.
On the same day the other Jacobite Army is defeated at Preston where it is the 26th Regiment of Foot, the Cameronians that lead the frontal assault on the town of Preston.
?b?Place Names in Ireland?/b?
?b?Barry Beg?/b? commonly called 'The Berries' is area North of Athlone, in the County of Roscommon, where William & Janet Ramsay lived, Kiltoom is a mile or so north again, where the Church baptisms and marriages were recorded.
?b?Clan Ramsay?/b?
One of the numerous descendants of Scots extraction was a William Ramsay who was born 1779 into a family living a short distance from Edinburgh but the exact location is uncertain. It was from this branch that all of the branches of the Ramsay line became established in Australia in the early nineteenth century.
Information received from various sources indicates that William joined the army in 1794 in the 100th Foot Regiment. Later this Regiment changed its name to the 92nd Highland Regiment and William was serving at Athlone at the turn of the 19th century, where the Regiment had been sent to put down the Irish Rebellion of 1798.
William did not elect to return to Scotland, instead he settled at Roscommon near Athlone, on the Shannon River, which was one of the major centres of Ireland at that time. Here property fronting Lough Ree, part of the Shannon River system, was granted in lieu of payment as a soldier. Athlone was a military town with farmers supplying produce to the barracks.
Kiltoom which is frequently mentioned is a Townland in the Parish of Kiltoom. Barony of Athlone, County Roscommon, Ireland.
In c 1802, William married Janet White, born in 1777 and whose father, William was a weaver. Apart from that, no further information on her family has been located. It is known that these two lived at Barry Beg (The Berries) from 1805 as the children were baptised at the Church at Kiltoom, a few miles north of The Berries. This house was lived in by the family until approximately 1973 when it was left vacant and the beautiful thatched roof subsequently caved in. The Berries are to this day still owned by the Ramsay family remaining in Ireland.
?b?Careers of Senior Officers?/b? (shown as highest rank attained in regiment in the period).
?b?Lt Col Andrew Gordon?/b?
Born Scotland; Major in 26th Foot 25 March 1777; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 13 June 1782; Lieutenant-Colonel 29 July 1784; brevet Colonel 18 November 1790; Lieutenant-General 3 October 1794; Colonel of 54th Foot 2 March 1797; Lieutenant-Governor or Jersey 1797; Lieutenant-General 14 December 1799; Colonel of 26th Foot 28 March 1801; died Jersey 1806.
?b?Major William Duff?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 14 February 1786; retired March 1793.
?b?Lt Col Hildebrand Oakes?/b?
Born Exeter 1754; served in North America; Major in 66th Foot 13 September 1791; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 1 March 1794; Deputy Quarter-Master General in Mediterranean 1794 to 1796; Lieutenant-Colonel in 66th Foot 1 September 1795; Lieutenant-Colonel in 26th Foot 22 September 1795; brevet Colonel 1 January 1798; sub Brigadier-General 29 August 1798; served in Egypt 1801; on half-pay 1805; subsequently Major-General 1 January 1805; Quarter-Master General in Mediterranean 1806; Colonel of 3rd West India Regiment 24 April 1806; Commander-in-Chief Malta 1808; Colonel of 52nd Foot 25 January 1809; Lieutenant-General 4 June 1811; died London 1822.
?b?Lt Col George Duke?/b?
Born Yorkshire 1755; served in North America 1775 to 1779; served in Canada 1788 to 1798; Major in 26th Foot 11 July 1793; Lieutenant-Colonel 20 December 1795; retired on half-pay of 65th Foot; Inspecting Field Officer of Yeomanry 1803; died Hampshire 1834.
?b?Lt Col William Blakeney Borough?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 1 September 1795; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 1 January 1798; Lieutenant-Colonel 9 July 1803; retired May 1805.
?b?Lt Col Erskine Hope?/b?
Born Edinburgh c1750; Major in 26th Foot 30 December 1795; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 1 January 1798; Lieutenant-Colonel 28 September 1804; retired December 1805.
?b?Lt Col John, Lord Elphinstone?/b?
Born Scotland 1764; Major in 60th Foot 14 September 1792; Lieutenant-Colonel in 60th Foot 20 July 1794; Lieutenant-Colonel in 26th Foot 11 July 1798; brevet Colonel 1 January 1800; subsequently Major-General 30 October 1805; Lieutenant-General 1 January 1812; 12th Lord Elphinstone 1813; died May 1813.
?b?Lt Col William Maxwell?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 9 July 1803 (from 23rd Light Dragoons); Lieutenant-Colonel 9 May 1805; commanded 1/26th Foot in Peninsula October 1808 to January 1809; lost arm at Corunna; served in Walcheren 1809; again in Peninsula July 1811 to December 1811; retired September 1812.
?b?Major William-George Dacres?/b?
Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 11 May 1802; Major in 26th Foot 9 July 1803; exchanged to half-pay of Somerset Fencibles 23 November 1804; brevet Colonel 4 June 1811; subsequently Major-General 4 June 1814; died February 1824.
?b?Major James Green?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 9 July 1803; retired March 1804.
?b?Lt Col Hugh Henry Mitchell?/b?
Served in Canada 1786 to 1796; served in Egypt 1801; Major in 26th Foot 17 March 1804; Lieutenant-Colonel in 26th Foot 12 December 1805; commanded 2/26th Foot 1805 to 1811; on half-pay 1811; exchanged to 51st Foot 13 June 1811; brevet Colonel 4 June 1813; commanded brigade in 4th Division at Waterloo; died London April 1817.
?b?Major Christopher Davidson?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 28 September 1804; drowned on way to Hanover November 1805.
?b?Major Hugh Antrobus?/b?
Born Shropshire 1770; Major in Somerset Fencibles 30 October 1794; on half-pay 1802; exchanged to Major 26th Foot 23 November 1804; retired April 1807.
?b?Lt Col Fountain Hogg?/b?
Born Ireland c1783; Major in 26th Foot 20 June 1805; served in Peninsula October 1808 to January 1809; served in Walcheren 1809; again in Peninsula August 1811 to February 1812; commanded 1/26th Foot December 1811 to February 1812; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 30 December 1811; Lieutenant-Colonel 2 January 1812; retired December 1812.
?b?Major John Otto Beyer?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 30 May 1805; to 10th Foot 20 June 1805.
?b?Major Patrick Ross?/b?
Major in 26th Foot c.1805; exchanged to Lieutenant-Colonel in 23rd Light Dragoons 9 April 1807; subsequently brevet Colonel 4 June 1814.
?b?Major Patrick-Nugent Savage?/b?
Born Ireland c1772; Major in 26th Foot 20 February 1806; superseded February 1810.
?b?Major Sampson Freeth?/b?
Born Birmingham 1774; Major in 26th Foot 27 March 1806 (on transfer from 23rd Light Dragoons); exchanged to 99th Foot 29 October 1807; subsequently brevet Colonel 4 June 1814; Major-General 1825; died Bath 1835.
?b?Major Hon. Sir Henry Murray?/b?
Born London 1784; Major in 26th Foot 26 March 1807 (on transfer from 20th Light Dragoons); served in Walcheren 1809; exchanged to 18th Light Dragoons 2 August 1810; subsequently brevet Colonel 1830; Major-General 1838; Lieutenant-General 1851; died London 1860.
?b?Major Alexander Francis Taylor?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 29 October 1807 (exchanged from 99th Foot); retired January 1810.
?b?Major Edward Shearman?/b?
Served in Peninsula October 1808 to January 1809; Major in 2/26th Foot 11 January 1810; again in Peninsula July 1811 to June 1812; died February 1820.
?b?Major Frederick Jones?/b?
Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General in Peninsula October 1808 to January 1809; Major in 26th Foot 15 February 1810; served with 2/26th 1811 to 1814; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 12 August 1819.
?b?Lt Col Loftus William Otway?/b?
Born Ireland 1775; served in Ireland 1798; Major in 5th Dragoon Guards 24 February 1803; Major in 81st Foot 23 June 1804; Major in 8th Light Dragoons 12 July 1804; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 28 March 1805; Deputy Adjutant-General in Canada 1805 to 1807; on half-pay 24th Light Dragoons 1 May 1805; Major in 18th Light Dragoons 12 February 1807; served in Peninsula December 1808 to July 1810; exchanged to 26th Foot 4 August 1810; this was a paper appointment only as was attached to Portuguese Army August 1810 to July 1813; subsequently brevet Colonel 4 June 1813; Major-General 12 August 1819; Lieutenant-General 10 January 1837; died 1854.
?b?Lt Col John Montagu Mainwaring?/b?
Served in West Indies 1793 to 1794; Deputy Adjutant-General in Plymouth 1795; Major in 67th Foot 14 August 1801; Lieutenant-Colonel in 90th Foot 23 November 1804 (on transfer from 67th Foot); Lieutenant-Colonel in 51st Foot 21 April 1808; to Lieutenant-Colonel 26th Foot 13 June 1811; brevet Colonel 4 June 1813; on half-pay 1815; subsequently Major-General 12 August 1819; Lieutenant-General 10 January 1837; died January 1842.
?b?Lt Col Hon. Hercules Robert Pakenham?/b?
Born Ireland 1781, younger brother of Edward; served in Peninsula with 95th Rifles August 1808 to January 1809, and July 1809 to June 1812; Major in 7th West India Regiment 30 August 1810; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 27 April 1812; Lieutenant-Colonel in 26th Foot 3 September 1812 (on transfer from 7th West India Regiment); Captain & Lieutenant-Colonel in Coldstream Foot Guards 25 July 1814; subsequently brevet Colonel 27 May 1825; Major-General 10 January 1837; Lieutenant-General 9 November 1846; died Ireland 1850.
?b?Lt Col George Guy Carleton l'Estrange?/b?
Born Ireland c1780; Major in 31st Foot 22 May 1804; served in Peninsula with 31st Foot November 1808 to May 1812; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 30 May 1811; Lieutenant-Colonel in 26th Foot 10 December 1812 (on transfer from 31st Foot); commanded 1/26th Foot December 1812 to 1815; commanded troops at Peterloo massacre 1819; brevet Colonel 19 July 1821; Major-General 22 July 1830; Lieutenant-General 23 November 1841; died York 1848.
?b?Major Edward Warner?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 30 January 1813 (on transfer from 1st West India Regiment); on half-pay 1815; brevet Lieutenant-Colonel 27 May 1825.
?b?Major James Connolly?/b?
Major in 26th Foot 2 January 1814; on half-pay October 1814.
?b?The Origin of the Cameronians?/b?
The origin of the Cameronians is absolutely unique because it is the only regiment in the British Army which has a religious foundation. The name 'Cameronian' was given to the most militant of the Presbyterian sects which sought to prevent any dilution of the Presbyterian faith, and who upheld the principles of the National Covenant, signed at Greyfriars Church Yard in Edinburgh on 28th Feb 1638. Richard Cameron was leader of the sect and on 22nd June 1680 he made the Declaration of Sanquhar which denied King Charles civil and religious authority. This meant that membership of the Cameronians was a treasonable offence. They resorted to holding their religious worship in secret locations on hillsides, known as conventicles.
After numerous trials, endless debate, and frequent battles, and with the arrival of the protestant William of Orange to the throne in Nov 1688, the Covenanters were brought into government service as the Cameronian Regiment, commanded by Colonel James Douglas, Earl of Angus. The heraldic arms of the Douglas family has a Mullet (star) device which became the badge of the regiment.
The first muster of this unit took place at Douglas Parish Kirk, Lanarkshire on 12th May 1689. Here, a declaration was read out and explained to the assembled men:
"All shall be well affected, of approved fidelity and of a sober conversation. The cause they are called to appear for, is the service of the King's Majesty and the defence of the nation, recovery and preservation of the Protestant Religion; and in particular the work of reformation in Scotland, in opposition to Popery, prelacy and arbitrary power in all its branches and steps, until the Government of Church and State be brought back to that lustre and integrity which it had in the best times."
This extraordinary regiment was, therefore, as much a congregation as a military force. Each company had its elder and every man carried a Bible. Traditionally, the regiment posted sentinels at church parades and the sermon did not commence until an officer notified the minister with a shout of 'All clear!'
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Should be two more children
Birth:
Name:?tab?James Blair
Gender:?tab?Male
Birth Date:?tab?16 Jun 1769
Baptism Date:?tab?18 Jun 1769
Baptism Place:?tab?Kinnaird By Errol,Perth,Scotland
Father:?tab?George Blair
FHL Film Number:?tab?1040119
Ancestry.com. Scotland, Select Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.
Original data: Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013.
Other parents are:
WILLIAM BLAIR/JANET CHALMERS 6 Jul 1766
JOHN BLAIR/JEAN MCLAUCHLAN 17/09/1769
Christened:
BLAIR
JAMES
GEORGE BLAIR/
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18/06/1769
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Kinnaird
FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZGQ-PLN
Location:
Listed in 1820 location Report,
1834 Report, James dead; George on farm; good lot, some stones
Immigration:
James, wife, 2 sons +12, 2 dau. -12
James married Isabella "Bella" Kid on 27 Aug 1796 in Dysart, Fife, Scotland. Isabella (daughter of Robert Kid and Magdalene Tarras) was born on 11 Nov 1772 in Largo, Fifeshire, Scotland; was christened on 15 Nov 1772 in Largo, Fifeshire, Scotland; died before 1861 in Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1864 - 1931 (67 years)
