PRESTON, MICHAEL [SSNE 533]

Surname

PRESTON

First name

MICHAEL

Title/rank

SIR

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

NOBILITY

Text source

Sir Michael Preston was married to Dame Marion Hay. He had "misbehaved" to John Hay of Easter Kennet and his son Alexander Hay and was ordered to leave Scotland for three years with any of the companies of Nithsdales's [SSNE 531] regiment

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.133 Register of the Privy Council of Scotland, 2nd Series, II, pp. 272-3, 18/3/1628.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, NITHSDALE'S

Arrived 1628-01-01

Departed 1628-10-04

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY