Did you know that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s ancestors were Ulster Scots? Scots who had moved to Ulster and may have been there for as long as two hundred years before coming back to settle on Ayrshire soil around 1847. Robert Sturgeon was the son of weaver William Sturgeon and his wife Mary Stevenson who […]
Category: Dumfries
Canonbie Militia List – 1802
Following on from my last post regarding the militia lists for Roxburghshire in 1802, I have found the following information which was transcribed by R.A.Shannon and made available in the Covenant and Hearth series Vol VIII in 1973 available in the Ewart Library in Dumfries. The original data was taken from the Lieutenancy minutes for […]