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Hi
I am in Australia and hoping someone may be able to tell me how to search records of the Forfarshire Militia around 1804.
My 3rd gr grandparents married in Brechin in 1804 and their marriage registration states John Sinclair was a private in the Forfarshire Militia. I am hoping I can find some enlistment details with birth date and place and/or parents names, as I have not otherwise been able to find his birth, nor death. He married Isabel Millar and the marriage registration states her father was David Millar, shoemaker of Brechin, deceased. I have not been able to find her death either, nor her birth as there appears to be a few choices with David as being fathers.
They appear to have had 4 children, Isabel 1805, John 1809 and Anne 1823. A 4th - Margaret - I cannot find her birth, but can only go on the fact that in 1838 she married Donald McDonald in Brechin as Margaret Sinclair, and in the 1841 census (aged 25 so born approximately 1816), Isabel Snr and young Ann are living with Donald and Margaret in Brechin. Isabel snr notes her age as 55 so born approx. 1786.
By the 1851 census, Donald is shown as a widow and Isabel Snr is no longer living with the household. Ann however is - and Donald and Ann start having children together.
If anyone can help me pin down John Sinclair and Isabel Millar's births deaths and hopefully parentage I would be grateful.
Thank you
Anne
Scotland: Stewart, Smith, Edward, Barron, Macdonald, Sinclair, Millar/Miller, Ross, Salmon(d), Cuthel, Cuthill, Macalister, McAlaster, McAllister, Forsyth, Haddow, Todd, Aitken, Gartshore, Mackie, Strang
England: Lucas, Parkinson, Nicholls
Ireland: Keys, McAuliffe, Achilles, Fenner/Fannin, Halpin
Germany: Achilles, Bartels, Barthold, Pralow, Schreiber, Kloth, Cords