Thank you Donald. re your question : "My question for the historians amongst us what was Stair's family regiment? The Enniskillens from Northern Ireland? Why would a Northern Irish regiment winter in Wigtown rather that at home in Enniskillen? " In the PRONI, T3019/512. Sir Robert Wilmot Papers. 30 March 1744. Letter from Lt. Col. Cuthbert Ellison, (Adjutant General to the Earl of Stair), Hanover Square, (London), to Wilmot. Encloses a letter from John Dalrymple, Earl of Stair, Col. of the Enniskillen Dragoons, to (Lord or Duke of ?) Devonshire on the plan for replacing the horses lost by Stair's Regiment in their passage from Ireland. Sounds like the horses also went from Ireland to the Stair estate in 1744. Would this be a property at Dunragget ? >From a hot South Australia. Shirley