{"id":528,"date":"2018-10-02T13:09:57","date_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/?p=528"},"modified":"2018-10-02T13:10:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-02T20:10:54","slug":"why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Need for a Jacobite Database? (Part 3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_488\" style=\"width: 911px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-488\" class=\"wp-image-488\" style=\"border: 4px solid #b2b2a8;\" src=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"901\" height=\"319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart.jpeg 1616w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart-300x106.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart-768x272.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart-1024x362.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/AngusChart-676x239.jpeg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 901px) 100vw, 901px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Some of the demographic results of organizing the regiment by parish of origin.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">In our previous two posts, we <a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">introduced a case study model<\/a> to demonstrate the utility of JDB1745 and we <a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussed a possible methodology<\/a> that will give us more accurate results than what has hitherto been published. Now that we have examined the data&#8217;s lineage, established as much objectivity as possible, and implemented authority records in our model of Lord Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment, we are ready to take a look at the information and organize it in a way that facilitates the most useful analysis for our needs.<span id='easy-footnote-1-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-528' title='This is known in the Library &amp;amp; Information Sciences (and the Sciences, in general) as establishing a &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/books.infotoday.com\/books\/The-Accidental-Taxonomist\/At-SampleChapter.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;taxonomical structure&lt;\/a&gt;. For further reading, &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/accidental-taxonomist.blogspot.com\/2013\/04\/taxonomies-vs-classification.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;this&lt;\/a&gt; is an excellent blog post that compares classification and taxonomy.'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> We know that our assessment will not be comprehensive, as more sources are revealed and further biographical information is entered into the database. Yet we can take a &#8216;snapshot&#8217; based upon the data that we do currently have. Here is what the numbers look like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Mackintosh&#8217;s Muster Roll: 628\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Rosebery&#8217;s List: 41<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>Prisoners of the &#8217;45<\/em>: 276<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>No <span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Quarter Given<\/span><\/em>: 761<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">To these, a few further sources can be consulted to add yet more names to the overall collection. A document at the National Library of Scotland, for example, contains another twenty two from Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment, and 362 more with no particular regimental attribution.<span id='easy-footnote-2-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-528' title='&amp;#8216;An Authentick Account of Culloden&amp;#8217; (in &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/manuscripts.nls.uk\/repositories\/2\/resources\/18046&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;Jacobite Relics&amp;#8217;,\u00a0NLS MS 2960 ff. 121-122&lt;\/a&gt;), including a\u00a0return of those who were made prisoners in Inverness by 19 April 1746, a list of known recruits and deserters also captured and brought to Inverness, a list of those were not in the Jacobite army but nonetheless aided or abetted Charles Edward Stuart, and a roster of those known to have been killed at Culloden.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span> A broadsheet distributed by\u00a0the Deputy Queen\u2019s Remembrancer from 24 September 1747 furnishes a list of 243 gentlemen who had been attainted and judged guilty of high treason, some of whom had likely marched with the Forfarshire men.<span id='easy-footnote-3-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-3-528' title='&amp;#8216;A List of Noblemen, Gentlemen, and others, who have been attainted, and adjudged to be guilty of High Treason, for levying War against His Majesty within this Realm, since the 24th Day of June 1745, viz.&amp;#8217; (in\u00a0&lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/manuscripts.nls.uk\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/36342&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;Miscellaneous Papers and Letters Chiefly Connected with the Two Jacobite Risings&amp;#8217;, NLS MS 3142 ff. 150-151&lt;\/a&gt;).'><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Various other documents from NLS and in the Secretary of State Papers (Scotland, Domestic, and Entry Books) at the National Archives in Kew contribute thousands more, as do those from the British Library, Perth &amp; Kinross Archives, Aberdeen City &amp; Aberdeenshire Archives, and dozens of other publicly accessible collections.<span id='easy-footnote-4-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-4-528' title='In the interest of streamlining this model, many hundreds of lists of suspected and captured Jacobites are individually excepted from this particular analysis, though we can be confident that persona entries for each person are covered by an included source. The entry of these persons remains an ongoing process and will continue to do so for some time.'><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> With a baseline collation of the major published sources regarding Lord Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment, buttressed by a few other useful manuscript sources, we have a solid corpus of data to examine.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">At this point, the switch from objective data to subjective analysis must be made. The data itself remains clean, but the way in which it is used by the individual researcher has a great breadth of flexibility based on what information is accessed and what questions are asked. In this case study, I, as the test researcher, am presenting one particular set of queries using one possible organizational methodology. This may be easily done on a per-source basis, and while significantly more complex, it may also be done on an all-inclusive basis. No matter the scenario, we have already acknowledged that the included sources have many overlapping names, so it is first important to compare the entries to weed out duplications to the best of our ability.<span id='easy-footnote-5-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-5-528' title='A powerful feature in the next version of JDB1745 will be what we call &amp;#8216;person records&amp;#8217;, which are essentially nested authority records that contain assigned personae records. The difference between &lt;em&gt;person&lt;\/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;personae&lt;\/em&gt; here is that each individual occurrence of a name in any single source is considered to be a &lt;em&gt;personae&lt;\/em&gt;. Numerous instances of that name contribute to make up the biographical record of a single, unique &lt;em&gt;person&lt;\/em&gt;. As the latter are subjectively assigned by curators of the database, they are meant only to provide authority references and may be turned off or hidden.'><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The importance of this is illustrated by a comparative statistical analysis of all known ages of the Ogilvy men.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">According to <em>No Quarter Given<\/em> (NQG), the average age of these soldiers is 31, but less than 10% of the entries have age data assigned. All of the other sources combined, however, show an average age of 28 with nearly 12% of this data known. Displaying a much greater divergence, NQG provides only 15.51% of its entries with information on rank (out of 761 records), while the other sources combined show rank data for 69.78% of their entries (out of 1016 records).<span id='easy-footnote-6-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-6-528' title='The 643 private men shown in the assessment of &lt;em&gt;No Quarter Given&lt;\/em&gt; is wholly assumed, as these are all of the entries the book lists with no rank information at all (and no entries denote the rank of private). Based upon Mackintosh&amp;#8217;s muster roll, however, the ratio of private men to total numbers listed is similar (8.4% versus 11.9%).'><sup>6<\/sup><\/a><\/span> The isolated rank data across the sources show similar ratios, especially when we consider that the entries from <em>The Prisoners of the &#8217;45<\/em> (P45) only include those who were captured and subsequently confined and\/or tried. Getting back to the idea of data lineage, however, this does not mean we can take for granted that 276 (P45) private men of Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment were imprisoned out of a total of 527 listed in Mackintosh&#8217;s muster roll (MRF). To do so would be a gross generalization based upon transcribed, non-normalized, non-compiled data, but it does give us a rough idea of the numbers that may have been involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_569\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyrank-2-e1538115557175.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-image-569 \" style=\"border: 4px solid #b2b2a8;\" src=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyrank-2-e1538115557175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-569\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simple comparison of rank data listed in prominent published secondary sources.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Moving on to name and place-name frequencies, some simple charts are illustrative of the family and origin of men from Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment. By grouping location and surname data, we can easily describe the most populous occurrences of both variables. In this particular study, we have obviously chosen to calculate the spread of locations in Angus, in which county most of the soldiers resided, but other inclusive areas could also easily be mapped. Likewise, by comparing the appearances of common surnames across different secondary sources, we are able to assess not only the numbers of different families involved in the regiment, but also which sources display both common and disparate persons in their rosters.<span id='easy-footnote-7-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-7-528' title='The location chart below includes 798 of 1018 (78.39) recorded places in all included sources with the exception of NQG. The surname chart measures all included sources with most (if not all) duplications resolved. The chart of most populous surnames contains all groupings with a minimum total of nine as depicted in MRF.'><sup>7<\/sup><\/a><\/span> In this example, it is noteworthy that MRF only records twelve men with the surname of Duncan (eight of which are also listed in P45), while NQG lists fourteen. It is not known how the authors of NQG assigned the five additional Duncans to Ogilvy&#8217;s \u2013 or even where they came from \u2013 as all of the NQG citations only include the selfsame sources in this case study.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_575\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-575\" class=\"wp-image-575\" style=\"border: 4px solid #b2b2a8;\" src=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1-768x546.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1-1024x728.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames-1-676x481.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grouped analysis of place-name of origin and most populous surnames in Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment.<\/p><\/div> <div id=\"attachment_579\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-579\" class=\"wp-image-579\" style=\"border: 4px solid #b2b2a8;\" src=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2-768x460.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvynames2-676x405.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Comparison of most populous surnames in Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment across published secondary sources.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Using a similar process of grouping data with the assistance of authority records, we are also able to gain a better idea of what types of occupations these soldiers held while not on the march. As expected, the most common vocations are those in the agricultural and servitude sectors, which mirrors the larger constituency of the Jacobite army.<span id='easy-footnote-8-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-8-528' title=' See Layne, &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk\/handle\/10023\/8868&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;Spines of the Thistle&amp;#8217;&lt;\/a&gt;, pp. 103-107, and especially note #113 on p. 105: &amp;#8216;It is difficult to confidently separate the term \u2018servant\u2019 as used in the eighteenth-century from persons under contract of tenancy to those of superior social rank. For the purposes of charting occupational sectors in this thesis, they are kept separate, but there is most certainly some overlap between \u2018farmer\u2019 and \u2018servant\u2019 regardless of what is transcribed in government lists. However, there is no obvious overlap between the two terms as they pertain to a unique person between multiple sources used in this study. For instance, there is no evidence that an alleged Jacobite is recorded as being a farmer in one list and a servant in another. Tom Devine equates farm workers with farm servitude rather than labour, T.M. Devine, \u2018Scottish Farm Service in the Agricultural Revolution\u2019 in T.M. Devine, ed., &lt;em&gt;Farm Servants and Labour in Lowland Scotland 1770-1914&lt;\/em&gt; (Edinburgh: 1984), p. 1. The occupational data for this case study represents a fill rate of 71.32% of the total persona entries (1018) included across all sources (excluding NQG).'><sup>8<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Manual labour, whether industrial or agrarian, dominates the output, but the manufacturing sector is also well represented by a strong textile and shoemaking presence. As much of Forfarshire\/Angus was rural, it makes sense that the professional building and provisioning trades are less common, though they are still denoted here by a significant turnout of masons and general merchants, respectively.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_581\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"wp-image-581\" style=\"border: 4px solid #b2b2a8;\" src=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations-1024x428.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/ogilvyoccupations-676x283.jpg 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Breakdown of occupations assigned to the Ogilvy men by job and sector.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">From these larger, data-driven assessments, we may also narrow down on the specific cases of individuals that are revealed after a careful look through the collated information. When comparing the occurrences of Duncans in Lord Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment, we have demonstrated that the published sources offer differing results. A soldier named Robert Duncan, a farmer from Lochlee, is listed in Mackintosh&#8217;s muster roll (and copied into NQG) with the note that he apparently was able to return home after the hostilities had ended. This seems to be corroborated by the absence of his record in P45, a useful publication that focuses on captured Jacobite prisoners. Furthermore, there is a record in Rosebery&#8217;s List (taken from the original excise officers&#8217; lists of alleged rebels) for Robert Duncan, a farmer from Lochlee, that does not show any regimental affiliation. Thus, our &#8216;person authority&#8217; for this Robert Duncan will contain these three disparate records, each of which can be viewed on its own or under the compiled authority. When analyzing this data, however, another Robert Duncan from Ogilvy&#8217;s made an appearance, one who is absent from the common published sources. This Duncan is described in detail in the papers of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle, which state that this man was a gardener in Brechin parish who enlisted in the second battalion of Lord Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment on Christmas 1745. He is recorded to have delivered his arms to the minister of Edzell on 24 April 1746, and had further surrendered to the authorities on 23 June 1746.<span id='easy-footnote-9-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-9-528' title='NLS MS 3730 ff. 62-65, 101-102 (in &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/manuscripts.nls.uk\/repositories\/2\/resources\/18346&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;Papers and Correspondence of the 2nd Earl of Albemarle, Relating to His Command-in-Chief in Scotland After the Rising of 1745&amp;#8217;&lt;\/a&gt;). Note that this information is not included in the 1902 publication of selected items within the same collection,\u00a0Terry, Charles Sanford, ed., &lt;a href=&quot;https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/albemarle-papers\/oclc\/1038759475&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Albemarle Papers: Being the Correspondence of William Anne, Second Earl of\u00a0&lt;\/em&gt;&lt;\/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;Albemarle, Commander-in-Chief in Scotland, 1746-1747&lt;\/em&gt;\u00a0(2 vols., Aberdeen: 1902).'><sup>9<\/sup><\/a><\/span> No evidence is currently available to determine the ultimate fate of this &#8216;phantom&#8217; Robert Duncan, but we may now add him with confidence to any future studies of the Jacobite constituency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A second example in the same vein is that of James McCudy, whose path is a bit more difficult to discern due to a likely case of mistaken identity. This soldier&#8217;s name does not make an appearance in any of the published sources, despite being found in numerous archival documents listed as an ensign in Lord Ogilvy&#8217;s regiment.<span id='easy-footnote-10-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-10-528' title='See, for example,\u00a0TNA TS 11\/179\/776; TS 20\/54\/1-3; TS 20\/60\/1; TS 20\/86\/10; TNA\u00a0SPD 36\/84\/1 ff. 132-133.'><sup>10<\/sup><\/a><\/span> It is very clear that this man&#8217;s surname is spelled &#8216;McCudy&#8217; across the primary source documents regardless of hand, yet the only similar entry in the published lists refers to a James Moudie. This entry for Moudie is present in all three of MRF, P45, and NQG (but not in Rosebery&#8217;s List), which likely means that it was mistranscribed by Mackintosh or possibly from the Montrose jail returns by Seton and Arnot, and that error was carried on down the line through successive published sources. We can be confident that this is the same man because they are both listed as ensigns from Arbroath in Ogilvy&#8217;s, and this biographical information does not accurately relate to any other men of similar character or name in any primary sources that have yet been consulted. We can also be satisfied that this information does not relate to another man who is present in these lists with the name of James Moodie, also in Ogilvy&#8217;s, but instead hailing from Auchmithie in St Vigeans parish. Indeed, that Moodie was a private who voluntarily enlisted in the Jacobite army before the march into England.<span id='easy-footnote-11-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-11-528' title='See MRF, p. 40; P45 (3), pp. 206-7; Rosebery&amp;#8217;s List, p. 178. Rosebery&amp;#8217;s does not note this James Moodie as being connected to Ogilvy&amp;#8217;s regiment, which must have been determined after its publication.'><sup>11<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_590\" style=\"width: 611px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-image-590\" src=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie.png 1250w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie-300x43.png 300w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie-768x110.png 768w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie-1024x147.png 1024w, https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mccudie-676x97.png 676w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">James McCudy, 19, Aberbroath, Ensign in Ld Ogilvie&#8217;s, TNA SPD 36\/84\/1 ff. 132-133.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">Getting back to our man McCudy \u2013 ostensibly the same person as James Moudie from Arbroath \u2013 none of the published sources display his age of nineteen years, as shown in an archival list of officers committed to the New Gaol in June 1746 after being captured in Scotland.<span id='easy-footnote-12-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-12-528' title='&amp;#8216;Officers Committed to the New Goal in Southwark, 17 June 1746&amp;#8217;, TNA\u00a0SPD 36\/84\/1 ff. 132-133.'><sup>12<\/sup><\/a><\/span> There is a note next to McCudy&#8217;s name that states he was not actually present at Southwark, despite appearing on the list. A similar roster duplicates this information but has the entry subsequently crossed out, also containing a note that he was never brought to prison in the first place.<span id='easy-footnote-13-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-13-528' title='&amp;#8216;List of Rebel Officers in the New Goal Brought from Scotland&amp;#8217;, TNA\u00a0TS 20\/54\/1.'><sup>13<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Though we cannot yet trace James McCudy&#8217;s movements after his processing through Montrose gaol on 25 April 1746, Seton and Arnot believe that he (&#8216;James Moudie&#8217;, actually) was ultimately released under the General Pardon of 1747 (20 Geo. II., c. 52). And in one more tempting thread to follow, yet another James Mudie from Arbroath was discovered while sorting the archival data; this man was evidently a writer or solicitor who was &#8216;Said to have served the Rebels in quality of an Officer, now a Prisoner&#8217;.<span id='easy-footnote-14-528' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/jdb1745.net\/littlerebellions\/why-the-need-for-a-jacobite-database-part-3\/#easy-footnote-bottom-14-528' title='NLS MS 17522 f. 35 (in &lt;a href=&quot;http:\/\/manuscripts.nls.uk\/repositories\/2\/archival_objects\/40275&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; rel=&quot;noopener&quot;&gt;&amp;#8216;Lists of Persons Suspected of Complicity in the Jacobite Rising of 1745, and of Those Who Did Not Take Part&amp;#8217;&lt;\/a&gt;).'><sup>14<\/sup><\/a><\/span> While there is no evidence that he joined up with Lord Ogilvy, it is a distinct possibility\u00a0considering his place of origin. This Mudie does not appear in any of the published sources surveyed in this study, and of all the men mentioned here, only the Auchmithie Moodie appears in <em>No Quarter Given<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">A great deal of information has been presented here about the soldiers of the Forfarshire regiment during the last Jacobite rising. In summation, it is but a limited demonstration of what may be efficiently discerned using a purpose-built database like JDB1745, together with a sound methodology to analyze the data itself. In this three-part series about why researchers might find such a tool useful, we have provided relevant information about age, rank, location of origin, and surname frequency from the published sources used by many scholars of Jacobitism. We have also discovered at least two additional persons not present in these publications, and have assessed the values and deficiencies of those sources. It must be stressed that any system used to present prosopographical information about historical subjects should be strongly based upon a logical data lineage, objective representation, and a sound taxonomy. It is our belief that until now, there has never been a modern, accurate assessment of the Jacobite constituency \u2013 either small- or large-scale \u2013 undertaken by any scholar or institution, and this highlights the usefulness and necessity for a research tool like JDB1745 to be considered essential in the field of Jacobite studies.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; font-family: Cabin;\"><em>Darren S. Layne received his PhD from the University of St Andrews and is creator and curator of the Jacobite Database of 1745, a wide-ranging prosopographical study of people concerned in the last rising. His historical interests are focused on the mutable nature of popular Jacobitism and how the movement was expressed through its plebeian adherents. He is a passionate advocate of the digital humanities, data and metadata organization, and Open Access.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In our previous two posts, we introduced a case study model to demonstrate the utility of JDB1745 and we discussed a possible methodology that will give us more accurate results than what has hitherto been published. 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