Which Inverness parish is this?

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I could not find any regiment for Caithness H - so a bit flummoxed there too! 

[isobelw]

Could be Caithness Highlanders. Just had a look on the British Newspaper Archive and there are lots of references to them around 1800.
Isobel

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Thanks to everyone for their input.

I am still thinking this is my Donald but just have to think more laterally!

Donald served in the Caithness Highlanders, however his birth place listed is Inverness,  with the parish Leon which does not make sense.  So if it is Latheron as suggested by Gadget, this being where Donald was born - could the Inverness be where he is already living (with a wife and child) ?

Though as witnesses are in the main McIntosh names that does not really add up either.  Presumably they be a brother and father??

Any suggestions of possible scenarios?

[jcmac]

If this a military document from 1800 can you explain why the heading in the first column refers to 1806 ?
Does that compromise his birth date ?

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I never noticed that !

 Any date on this page relating to a soldier is in July 1800.  Its part of a bigger collection - so perhaps a book updated after the event. 

This page contains only Soldiers named McIntosh started with Alexander at the top and alphabetically down to two Williams but the last name is a David McIntosh!   I think ages are correct as they can be for the time when discharged.

Searching more - I have seen there is another Donald Mcintosh, also a weaver, from  - Devoy, Inverness (another unknown place) in records from the Chelsea Hospital.  This is a slightly younger man - at 26 would he have recovered  to marry and have family (in Inverness)  whilst recovering from a wound to the head, received in Egypt in the Chelsea Hospital ? Leaving their care in 1802.   Possible but doubtful, the dates don't fit as easily, as first child born in 1799, though the others 1804 and 06.

The joys of my Mcintosh and Frasers from Inverness - just so many of the same.

[isobelw]

If this a military document from 1800 can you explain why the heading in the first column refers to 1806 ?
Does that compromise his birth date ?

I'm struggling to see where you are seeing 1806!
This record can be viewed on Ancestry in a record set entitled Canada - British Regimental Registers of Service 1756- 1900. The heading on the page is Record of Non-Commissioned Officers, Trumpeters or Drummers and Privates of his Majesty. It is in alphabetical order. The entry continues to the following page, the first column of which can be seen on the extreme right of the image. This indicates Donald attested on 7/7/1800 at Cork and died 25/4/1810.
The index entry on Ancestry mentions 79th foot, Ist battalion but I can't immediately see where that info come from on the record.
Isobel

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Its under the main heading as in the wee snip I posted earlier - I didn't spot it either! I will attach it again

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Oh!!!!

 

Just spotted that the page goes over - so this soldier was from Leon,  Inverness- born 1771 attestation  in Cork and died in 1810 but was also in Caithness Highlanders in 1897 - 1800 .  Oh well it does not matter - bang goes that theory. 

Well thats they way it should be - trying to disprove a theory rather than trying to make it fit!