Captain James Mansfield Revisted

I’ve always wondered how the Capt James Mansfield who was killed in the Highland Mutiny of 1779 might be related (see story below from The Old & New Edinburgh). He married Margaret who was the daughter of Peter Ramsay the Stabler and Innkeeper. Margaret was niece of my ancestors William Ramsay of Barnton, who’d married Janet Mansfield. Thanks to Hamish Bain it now turns out that Janet was the sister of Capt. James Mansfield (See Edinburgh Burgess Rolls below). Continue reading »

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