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Scotland / Re: Scottish ancestors at Battle of Worcester 1651?
« on: Saturday 18 June 11 01:03 BST (UK)  »
Terrific.  I would like to see the pictures.  Thank you.  I think it's astounding how events like this battle reshape the world.  Very interesting indeed!

Alan

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Scotland / Re: Scottish ancestors at Battle of Worcester 1651?
« on: Friday 17 June 11 22:20 BST (UK)  »
Hi Sean,
James MacKreith's granddaughter described to her son who passed the conversation onto his son that two of their cousins had fallen at the battle of Culloden fighting for the Pretender Prince Charles.  She also said that her grandfather was from Scotland and fought against Cromwell at the battles of Dunbar where he escaped and at Worcester where he was captured.  The conversation was written down in a letter and an excerpt of the letter has been circulated throughout the family.

The letter also spells James' last name as 'Maceraithy' and my own surname is a derivative of this.

How do you figure into the Worcester story?

Alan

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Scotland / Re: Scottish ancestors at Battle of Worcester 1651?
« on: Friday 17 June 11 20:59 BST (UK)  »
Hi Roberta,
I would be absolutely thrilled with anything that you come back with from Massachusetts.  Even information on the Scottish prisoner group in general would be interesting.

I am unsure as to whether James was from the inner or outer Hebrides as his birthplace is only an ancestral note, but there is an Outer Hebrides.

Thank you.

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Scotland / Re: Scottish ancestors at Battle of Worcester 1651?
« on: Wednesday 18 May 11 19:14 BST (UK)  »
Would you have any information on a James MacKreith?

Only some information to go on:
 - fought in battle of Dunbar (age ~20, not captured)
 - fought in battle of Worcester (age ~21, caputred)
 - sent to New England on the ship John & Sara (departed London, 8 November 1651; arrived Boston, 1652)
 - served indentured servitude in New England until 1660, began paying taxes in the new world in 1661
 - Other possible surnames: Maceraithy
 - Possible family residence at the time: Hebrides?

...fabulous topic

Alan

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