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Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page i s Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page ii Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page iii The Muster Roll of Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s Army, 1745-46 EDITORS Alastair Livingstone of Bachuil Christian W. H. Aikman and Betty Stuart Hart FOREWORD Sir Donald Cameronof Lochiel, .. INTRODUCTION Professor Bruce P. Lenman, St Andrews University NEIL WILSON PUBLISHING. GLASGOW Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page iv First published by Aberdeen University Press, 1984 This edition first published in 2001 by Neil WilsonPublishing Ltd G/2 19 Netherton Avenue GLASGOW G13 1BQ Tel: 0141 954 8007 Fax: 0560 150 4806 E-mail: [email protected] www.nwp.co.uk ©1745 Association, 2010 Reprinted 2009, 2010 The authorshaveestablished their moral right to be identified as the authors ofthis work. Acatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN: 978-1-903238-02-8 Typeset in Ehrhardt Designed byMark Blackadder Printed in Great Britain by Bell & Bain Ltd., Glasgow Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page v s Contents Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, K.T. vii ix xii xiii The Jacobite Army and its Achievements Bruce P. Lenman, University of St Andrews xvii 1 Appin (Stewarts of Appin) 11 Atholl Brigade 19 Bannerman of Elsick’s 32 Cameron of Lochiel’s 34 FitzJames’ Horse 40 Hussars 43 Kilmarnock’sHorse 46 The Lifeguards (Elcho’s Troop: Balmerino’s Troop) 50 Perthshire Horse (Strathallan’s) 55 Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page vi Pitsligo’s Horse 59 Chisholm of Strathglass’ 63 Duke of Perth’s 65 Earl of Cromartie’s 78 Ecossais Royale 88 Forfarshire (Ogilvy’s) 93 Frasers of Lovat 116 Gordon of Glenbucket’s 123 Lord Lewis Gordon’s 129 Grants of Glenmoriston (see MacDonell of Glengarry’s) Grante’s Artillery 136 Irish Piquets 139 MacDonald of Clanranald’s 145 MacDonald of Glencoe’s 152 MacDonell of Glengarry’s (including Grants of Glenmoriston) 155 MacDonell of Keppoch’s 168 MacGregor’s 174 MacKinnon’s 178 LadyMacKintosh’s 182 MacLachlan’s 189 MacLean’s 192 MacLeod of Raasay’s 194 MacPherson of Cluny’s 196 Manchester 205 Monaltrie’s and Balmoral 211 John Roy Stuart’s (Edinburgh) 215 Stoneywood’s(Aberdeen) 220 Members of the Prince’s Army who were Executed or Hanged after the Rising of 1745-46 225 Probable strength and compositionof the Prince’sArmy at the Battles of Prestonpans, Falkirk and Culloden 229 Those of Regiments Unknown 235 INDEX 237 Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page vii s Foreword Sir Donald Cameron of Lochiel, K.T. It was a mammoth task to compile the list of and criticism levelled at the leadership and names ofthose who were in the regiments which planning of the campaign, but all writers agree formed the army ofPrince Charles Edward in 1745 about the courage, loyalty and self-sacrifice shown and the full list can obviously never be complete. by those who so unquestioningly followed the Over the last few years an immense amount of Prince. The defeat at Culloden led to the end ofthe research has been undertaken by dedicated Clan system and to great devastation in the members of the 1745 Association, and now the Highlands, but to all Highlanders the year of the result of these years of research is being published rising was a chapter in their history which can thanks to a generous grant from the Glencoe never be forgotten. Foundation. I congratulate most warmly the compilers and This publication will certainly be of great researchers who have worked so hard to produce interest to historians and to many others desirous this publication, and I know that those of us whose of knowing more about the composition of the ancestors put loyalty to the Stuart cause before any Prince’s Army. More and more descendants of other consideration owe them a great debt of Highlanders, especially those now living overseas, gratitude for their work. I hope this book will get are searching for their roots and it may be that a the wide circulation and support that it deserves. name in this list might fit into their family tree or Since the above foreword was written in 1984, perhaps provide a link that has evaded their this book has proved so popular that another research till now. edition has become necessary. This includes a The references which are given alongside each substantial number of additional names and a few name could be invaluable for those who wish to corrections have also been made. The Muster Roll conduct further research into the background or is now more complete and accurate and I commend life of a particular person or wishs for further this latest edition to all those who are interested in information about the family to which their the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and who do not already forebears belonged. have a copy of the original edition. Much has been written about the ’45, argument has raged about the decision to turn back at Derby, Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page viii Text 11/3/09 16:23 Page ix s Acknowledgements The idea ofcompiling a muster roll ofthe army he had spent over thirty years amassing material for of Prince Charles Edward Stuart in the years an exhaustive work and had been eventually forced 1745-46 was first conceived by one of our to the decision that ‘it seemed better to write members, the late Dr. Kenneth Mackie. He was something now than everything never’. engaged on this task with a great deal of research On the basis of this philosophy the Association still to undertake when he died in a tragic drowning charged me as Chairman together with our accident in 1948. Subsequently his incomplete Honorary Secretary, Miss Christian W. H. Aikman manuscripts were kindly gifted to the 1745 and her predecessor, Mrs Betty S. Hart, to form an Association by his widow. Over the years various editorial committee and to find ways and means of members, notably Col. I. Cameron Taylor, Mr. C. preparing the work for publication. Dr Mackie had G. Warner and the Rev. J. Greig have worked on collated from the sources shown in this book names the manuscripts but much remained to be done. of persons who had taken part in the ’45 and had Two main obstacles stood in the way of arranged them as far as possible under their publication, firstly lack of funds and secondly lack appropriate regiment or unit. These terms are used of members both qualified and with sufficient loosely and interchangeably and it should be noted leisure to undertake the research necessary to that strengths varied from forty men upwards. produce a work worthy of the Association. Lists of names have been cursorily checked and In 1979 through the good offices of Mr. Ellice in certain cases have been augmented where MacDonald, the Glencoe Foundation Inc. of the additional information has been discovered during United States made us a generous grant towards research. If any readers can produce any fully the cost of publication. This handsome gesture documented additions or amendments to these gave us the catalyst we needed and some more work lists, the Association would be glad to have them. was done on the manuscripts. In 19s82 a decision No consistency in the spelling of place names or was made to publish the work ‘warts and all’. Very personal names has been attempted but where much in my mind at that time was a wise dictum of there is an accepted modern spelling this has been one of our patrons, Sir Iain Moncreiffe of that Ilk. used, e.g. ‘Ardsheal’ instead of the old ‘Ardshiel’. In his book, The Highland Clanshe describes how No significance should be attached to whether the
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