WALKER, MARY [SSNE 8275]
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Mary Walker was a Dutch woman whose husband, unnamed, was a soldier in the Scots-Dutch Brigade during the Scottish Highland War (1689-1692). After her husband’s death at the battle of Killiecrankie, 27th July 1689, she was part of a group of five Dutch widows (Cathrine Laflour [SSNE 8272], Issobell Greenlands [SSNE 8273], Catherine Stivensone [SSNE 8274] and Magdallen Addeross [SSNE 8276]) who petitioned the Scottish Privy Council for charitable funds. On 24th August 1689, it was ordered that the widows were to be paid £6 Sterling in total from the Treasury to be divided equally amongst them which was to facilitate their return to the Dutch Republic.
Sources:
Henry Paton (ed.), Records of the Privy Council of Scotland, Volume 14, 3rd Series (Edinburgh, 1933), Warrant for a precept to some Dutchwomen, 24th August 1689, p. 98.
National Records of Scotland, E7/5, Treasury Register, 1688-1689, 24th August 1689, f. 178.
This entry written by Mr Graeme Millen.
Keywords: Widow, female
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- SCOTLAND, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC,
- Arrived 1689-07-27, as WIDOW
- Departed 1689-08-24, as REPATRIATED
- Capacity PETITIONER, purpose WIDOW