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Darwin Correspondence Project

John Macbeth

1804/5–52

Scottish piper. Employed by the marchioness of Stafford, Anne Sutherland-Leveson-Gower (from 1861 the duchess of Sutherland). Born in Farr, Scotland. Married Flora Dolina Macbeth (or Macbeath) in Edinburgh in 1841. Licensee of the Haunch of Venison public house, New Bond Street, London, 1851.

Sources

Census returns of England and Wales 1851 (The National Archives: Public Record Office HO107/1475/44/5)

Myatt 2019

Scotland old parish registers marriages 685/1 660 408 Edinburgh (Scotlandspeople.gov.uk, accessed 17 June 2020)

Bibliography

Myatt, Alan. 2019. A–Z of Trentham: Places–People-History. Stroud: Amberley Publishing.

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