Descendants to honour Scots taken prisoner at Dunbar.

Started by Westmarcher, 01 August 2019, 09:55:33 PM

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Westmarcher

01 August 2019, 09:55:33 PM
I just completed a 17th century (Royalist ECW) unit tonight, turned on the computer and came across this.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/relatives-of-scots-soldiers-shipped-abroad-in-17th-century-to-come-home-and-honour-ancestors/ar-AAFbnde?ocid=mailsignout
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

d_Guy

01 August 2019, 10:09:54 PM #1
Interesting find,Westie, thanks!

Encumbered by Idjits, we pressed on

Westmarcher

01 August 2019, 10:11:39 PM #2
Thought you might like it. Cheers, Bill.  :)
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

pierre the shy

01 August 2019, 11:34:18 PM #3
Thanks for posting that Westie...very timely given we are playing a game based on Cromwells advance on Edinburgh  in July 1650 this weekend.

There is a fairly recent episode of a US series of "Who do you think you are" that traces the ancestor of the person (sorry his name escapes me) from Dunbar to Durham to the new world as an indentured servant.

From what l have seen anyone being taken prisoner during the C17 could expect pretty harsh treatment from their captors no matter who they might be.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
we are not now that strength which in old days
moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are.
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