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Fife / Re: 71st Regiment of Foot Scotland
« on: Friday 04 January 13 22:16 GMT (UK) »
Thank you , Margow. This is really helpful.
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Fife / Re: 71st Regiment of Foot Scotland
« on: Thursday 03 January 13 21:03 GMT (UK) »
My 5th Great Grandfather was John Dibbs. His father was Thomas Dibbs and mother, Margaret Eadie. General Fraser raised the 71st Regiment of Foot in 1776. The Regiment embarked for Boston to join British Forces under Lord Howe. At the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781, the Regiment became prisoners of war. The Americans were unable to make the Fraser Highlanders desert. At the end of the war they were shipped back to Scotland and were disbanded. It is possible that John was part of this group.
He married Elizabeth Simpson in New North Kirk in Edinburgh (not sure where that was) in 1783. By December he was a shoemaker in Dundee, where his first child was born. All the rest of his six children and perhaps a seventh, were born in St Andrews and St Leonard parish where the family settled for the next 20 years. I have details of all the children but do not have a birth or death date for John.
He married Elizabeth Simpson in New North Kirk in Edinburgh (not sure where that was) in 1783. By December he was a shoemaker in Dundee, where his first child was born. All the rest of his six children and perhaps a seventh, were born in St Andrews and St Leonard parish where the family settled for the next 20 years. I have details of all the children but do not have a birth or death date for John.
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