Marilyn Sorry - not us. But if you know anything of an Alexander STEWART who was described as a soldier at the baptism of his 4th child Ann STEWART at Kilmarnock in 1799 .... Kind regards -----Original Message----- From: angus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:angus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Marilyn Threlkeld Sent: Wednesday, 25 March 2009 8:21 AM To: angus@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ANGUS] North British Militia Are you the Stewarts who wanted to find 38 Market St in Brechin & to whom I sent the info? Computer troubles lost the letter. mjmt@camalott.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen & Ed Stewart" <estewart@alphalink.com.au> To: <angus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:58 PM Subject: Re: [ANGUS] North British Militia > Coming in late to this thread so this may have already been mentioned, but > ... > > There is a digitised copy of "Territorial Soldiering in the North-East of > Scotland during 1759-1814" by John Malcolm Bulloch available at > http://www.archive.org/details/territorialsoldi00bulluoft > which you may care to have a look at. > > Kind regards > Ed > > -----Original Message----- > From: angus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:angus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Nivard Ovington > Sent: Tuesday, 24 March 2009 11:05 AM > To: angus@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ANGUS] North British Militia > > Hi Gordon > > Thanks for that (I think <vbg>) > > No, really much appreciated, as your mail came in I was searching the Army > & > > Militia lists but nothing early enough > > I did find a reference to an 1813 Army and Militia list thus :- > "The Army list includes lists of officers, a list of the North Britain > militia and a list of the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers" although these > listings usually only contained officers, the description is ambiguous, > most > > Militia were disbanded in 1802 but were raised again soon after > > Apart from that I have found little on them, quite a few individuals who > served with them on the National Archives but annoyingly no David COOK > > I will look into it further and come back to you if I find any more on the > 5th > > Thanks again > > Best wishes Nivard Ovington, in Cornwall (UK) > > PS it would be ironic if it were the Shetlands and my family were there > during WW2 three of my siblings were born there > > >> Nivard: had a relative in the 5th North British Militia. According to an >> army website, the 5th was: >> 5th Ross, Sutherland, Shetland and Cromarty Militia >> and so you have a wide choice of where he may have been recruited!! >> Gordon Johnson. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in > the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message