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John MacIntosh was born at Cambusavie, Dornoch c. 1775 and guessing from a protracted court action, 1776-1778 which went to the House of Lords, (involving Wm. Sutherland v. the Countess of Sutherland,) I imagine his parents were moved from this farm.
He signed up c. 1795/6, joining William Wemyss' 93rd Regiment of Foot.  (He may in fact have been in the earlier Sutherland Fencibles but his discharge papers of 1815 say the 93rd. and were signed by Wm. Wemyss.)
John fought at the Battle of New Orleans and lost a leg there.  He returned to Cork, Ireland with the remaining men and presumably made his way home from there. This endurance test is unimaginable!  I do not know whether he was obliged to return to Fort George or disbanded elsewhere.
He married, in 1817, Jean/Jane Fraser who, judging by records, hailed from Dores, by Loch Ness.
(Perhaps he met her as he staggered, somehow or other, up the Great Glen towards Inverness.)
They settled at Balvraid.  One census document gives the address Balvraid muir, so that would be on poor land. Prior to enlistment he was a shoemaker (stated on his army papers). He may have been able to continue this occupation despite his disability. Remarkably he raised a family of two there;
Ann, b. 1818 (who married a John Matheson and who emigrated to Australia,, with children, some time between 1851 and 1861)
and John b. 1823, also at Balvraid (who married Barbara Sutherland in 1846.) More of his family in another post.
Brave John, the Chelsea pensioner, lived on for around thirty eight years with only one leg. He died at Balvraid in 1852 while his wife, Jean/Jane died in 1863 there.
I have tried to find John in the first Census of 1841. It looks as if he might have been in Fodderty, at Bottacks. (Perhaps displaced there, as the returning men were cheated out of their previous tenancy.) However his wife is listed as Ann and there is a so far unidentified Christian, aged eight, living with them. Balancing those facts are John's age (correct) and his description (Army P.)
I have identified his neighbour there, Duncan/Donald McIntosh also a shoemaker.  He was younger and also at new Orleans where he was wounded in the thigh.
If anyone can add to these facts or correct me, I would be delighted.
Thanking you in anticipation,
MairiD
 

The Lownie family, four generations connected with weaving in and around Forfar,  had Auchterlonie
 and Auchterlownie on some documents, Lownie on others.  They were known locally as the Lownies. 

They illustrate this  '........upon the lands of Lownie ( the original property of the old Forfarshire family of Auchterlony) and in King's Muir adjoining....'

I traced them back to David Lownie, a wheelwright of Burnside Toll-bar and Agnes Shepherd who had sons John, 1796, Mains and Strathmartine and George, 1805, Forfar.  They may also have had an Agnes b.c. 1801.

 As mentioned in another post no MC can be found for this couple.  The IGI gives a David Lounie marrying an Agnes Shepard in Abdie in 1790.  SP have no fully matching document unfortunately.

If they are the same couple then there is a probable link to the Auchterlonies of Fife who can be traced back to the early 1600s, if not earlier, in Ceres.

A connection to George Lownie, vintner, of Dundee and his wife Mgt. Morison/Murison would, if proved, appear to lead to a link with Fife as well.

Given that there were Auchterlonies/Ochterlonies in Angus and neighbouring counties for generations back to the early 1600s too, the earlier Lownies of this family are proving hard to trace.  (I am also cross-eyed studying the various spellings of Auchterlonie. )

Some people state the Fife and Angus Auchterlonie families were not connected, others say they were.

Has anyone here tracked an Auchterlonie/lownie family with roots solely north of the Tay?

MairiD.

 For Ostler,

 Margaret Dudgeon married Thomas Downie (gardener) in 1810 at Torphichen, West Lothian. Three children, the middle one Janet b. 1813, Mid-Calder, Midlothian.
 MairiD.

  My family line is through a son of Peter Ness (1828-1912) who was a postman in Aberlady and his wife Helen Walker.
 
  Peter was a son of William Ness (1794-1877) a tailor in Aberlady.  His wife was a Mary Robertson---named on the birth certificates/death certificates though I have yet to find their marriage certificate.

  William was the son of Joseph Ness, (1760-?) of Dirleton, a master tailor and a Margaret Paterson.

  Joseph Ness was the eldest son (of five) born to William Ness and Marion Ponton/Punton who married in 1759 in North Berwick.

  That is as far as I have got.

  The earliest Ness couples in East Lothian are listed as

   Patrick/Peter Ness and Ann Paterson, at Yester,   
   James Ness and Elizabeth Knox in North Berwick, 
   William Ness and Marion Ponton, North Berwick and Dirleton and
   Thomas Ness and Agnes Acheson in Dirleton.
                                                               
  It would appear that the Nesses came across from Fife, perhaps Kettle.

  Is anyone researching/interested in this name and has anyone positively identified the link with Fife?

  'My' family Christian names are Peter, (presumably Patrick earlier) Joseph, William, Thomas, James.

   MairiD.