Hopetoun or Southern Fencibles

[hdw]

Sorry, no, but I do know that the Durham family were associated with Largo in Fife.

Harry

[Chilliwack]

Hi, no worries; thanks so much for getting back to me so quickly anyway
Best wishes
Claire

[Baztac]

I then did some research on that regiment, e.g. I sat in the Scottish Room of the Central Library in Edinburgh for days on end and copied out every reference to that regiment that I could find in the pages of the Edinburgh Evening Courant from 1795 to 1799, when the regiment was disbanded at Hopetoun House, Linlithgow. By coincidence, I was then living in Linlithgow. My notes run to five pages of A4. I'll be glad to share them with anyone who is interested, but I will need your email or snail-mail addresses to send them to, as there's too much to summarise. I also have a photocopy of the picture of the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun in Kay's Edinburgh Portraits, in the uniform of the regiment.

Hi Harry,
Would it be possible to get a copy of your notes for the 7th Fencibles, I am researching a Thomas Donaldson who was with them at least 1793-1797.
Thanks
Barry

[hdw]

I've just checked and I don't seem to have those notes on the computer. I'm in the rather peculiar position that I had a bad fall earlier this year which put me in hospital for three months with broken bones in my back and since getting home I've been confined to the ground floor of my house getting round with a zimmer. Of course, all my genealogical files and notes are upstairs in my study! I don't make New Year resolutions as such but I am determined to get up those stairs this year and access my notes again, and if I do I will remember your request.

Harry

[Baztac]

I've just checked and I don't seem to have those notes on the computer. I'm in the rather peculiar position that I had a bad fall earlier this year which put me in hospital for three months with broken bones in my back and since getting home I've been confined to the ground floor of my house getting round with a zimmer. Of course, all my genealogical files and notes are upstairs in my study! I don't make New Year resolutions as such but I am determined to get up those stairs this year and access my notes again, and if I do I will remember your request.

Harry

Harry, Thanks for replying. Sorry to hear of your accident. I hope 2025 is a better year for you and wish you a successful recovery.