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     William Bayard was the son of Stephen Bayard and Alida Vetch.¹ William Bayard married Catherine McEvers.¹

     Catherine McEvers married William Bayard, son of Stephen Bayard and Alida Vetch.¹

     William Bayard was the son of William Bayard and Catherine McEvers.¹ William Bayard married Elizabeth Cornell.¹

     Elizabeth Cornell married William Bayard, son of William Bayard and Catherine McEvers.¹

     Harriet Elizabeth Bayard was born in 1799.² She was the daughter of William Bayard and Elizabeth Cornell.¹ Harriet Elizabeth Bayard married General Stephen Van Rensselaer, son of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Margarita Schuyler, on 2 January 1817 in New York City.³ Harriet Elizabeth Bayard died in 1875.²

     General Stephen Van Rensselaer was born on 29 March 1789 in Albany, New York.¹ He was the son of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Margarita Schuyler.¹ General Stephen Van Rensselaer married Harriet Elizabeth Bayard, daughter of William Bayard and Elizabeth Cornell, on 2 January 1817 in New York City.¹ General Stephen Van Rensselaer died on 25 May 1868 in the Manor House, Albany, New York, at the age of 79.¹

     Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer was born in 1823.² She was the daughter of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Harriet Elizabeth Bayard.¹ Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer married Nathaniel Thayer.¹ Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer died in 1897.²

     Nathaniel Thayer was born in 1808.² He married Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer, daughter of General Stephen Van Rensselaer and Harriet Elizabeth Bayard.¹ Nathaniel Thayer died in 1883.²

     Nathaniel Thayer was the son of Nathaniel Thayer and Cornelia Paterson Van Rensselaer.¹

     Carl Gustav von Moltke was born in 1869.¹ He died in 1935.¹

     John W. Livingston was the son of John Livingston and Catherine de Peyster.¹

     John W. Livingston was the son of John W. Livingston.¹

     Adele Livingston was the daughter of John W. Livingston.¹

     Count Charles de Gallifet died in 1905.¹

     Micislas Orlowski was born in 1865.¹ He died in 1929.¹

     Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord was born in 1843.¹ He died in 1917.¹

     Lucy Winthrop was born in 1601.² She married Emanuel Downing on 10 April 1622 in England.^1,2 Lucy Winthrop died in 1679?²

     Major William Minto RMA was born in Ruletownhead, Roxburgh, Scotland.² He was christened on 9 December 1756 at Southdean, Roxburgshire.¹ He was the son of George Minto and Barbara Chisholm.¹ He served in the Royal Marine Artillery. He was wounded. at the battle of Aboukir, Egypt, on 13 March 1801. James' Naval History describes the action thus ..... Aboukir on their right flank maintained a constant and harassing discharge of large shots and shells; but the ardour of the British officers and men was not to be damped. No moment of hesitation intervened. The beach was arrived at, and a footing obtained ; the troops advanced, and the enemy was forced to relinquish all the advantageous positions he had held. The boats returned without delay for the second division ; and, before the evening of the 9th, the whole army, with a proportion of stores and provisions, was landed.

A detachment of 1000 seamen, placed under the orders of Captain Sir William Sidney Smith, formed part of the landed force. The duty of these was to drag the cannon up the heights; a service they performed with their usual alacrity and perseverance, and in which, and in disembarking the army, they sustained a loss of 22 seamen killed, three lieutenants (John Bray, George Thomas, and Francis Collins), one master's mate (Richard Ogleby), three midshipmen (John Finchley, John Donellan, and Edward Robinson, the latter mortally), and 63 seamen wounded, and three seamen missing. The loss sustained by the army, on the same occasion, amounted to four officers, four sergeants, 94 rank and file killed, 26 officers, 34 sergeants, five drummers, 450 rank and file wounded, and one officer, one sergeant, one drummer, 32 rank and file missing; making a grand total of 124 killed, 585 wounded, and 38 missing. The loss sustained by the French, when they were driven from the hill, is stated by them at 400 in killed and badly wounded; but it was believed to have exceeded that amount: they left behind them eight pieces of artillery, one of which was a 24-pounder besides a great number of horses.

On the 12th the British army moved forward, and came in sight of the French army; which, having been reinforced by a body of 4400 troops under General Lanusse, including upwards of 1000 cavalry commanded by General Bron, now amounted to about 7000 men. The French were formed upon an advantageous ridge, having their right on the canal of Alexandria, and their left towards the sea. On the following day, the 13th, a battle was fought, in which the detachment of seamen under Sir Sidney Smith, and of marines under Lieutenant-colonel Walter Smith, emulated the brave troops with whom they were associated. The British gun-boats on the lake of Aboukir, commanded by Captains Frederick Lewis Maitland and James Hillyar, were also particularly useful in annoying the right flank of the French army. At length, after a sharp struggle, the French were repulsed at all quarters, with the loss, as admitted by themselves of 750 killed and badly wounded; and the British took up a position at the village of Bedah, distant about a league from the town of Alexandria, having on their right the sea, on their left the canal of Alexandria (then dry) and Lake Madieh, and in front a sandy plain.

The loss sustained by the British in this last encounter was, on the part of the navy, one midshipman (Mr. Wright) and five seamen killed, and 19 seamen wounded; on the part of the marines, two lieutenants (Paul Hussey and John Linzee Spea), and 22 rank and file killed, one major (William Minto), one captain (Robert Torkington), two lieutenants (Richard Parry and George Peebles), two sergeants, two drummers, 27 rank and file wounded ; and on the part of the army, six officers, six sergeants, one drummer, 143 rank and file, 21 horses killed, 66 officers, one quartermaster, 61 sergeants, seven drummers, 946 rank and file, five horses wounded, and one rank and file missing; grand total, 186 killed, 1135 wounded, and one missing.

On the 18th of March the castle of Aboukir, mounted with ten guns and two heavy mortars, and garrisoned, the French say, with 300 men under chef de bataillon Vinache, after a bombardment of two days, surrendered on honourable terms to a detachment of the army under Colonel Dalhousie. Whatever may have become of the rest of the garrison, the prisoners taken did not amount to more than 150 officers and men.


Major William Minto RMA married Grace Little on 25 November 1812 in St. Giles, Camberwell, Surrey.³ Major William Minto RMA made a will on 2 May 1813 leaving everything to his wife. On 17 November 1826, in a codicil he appoints his wife and Archibald Little (possibly his brother-in-law) as trustees over the sum of a thousand pounds, the income of which was to go to his wife during her life and then the principal to his nephew William Bell.⁴

      Of Grove Hill, Camberwell.² Grace Little married Major William Minto RMA, son of George Minto and Barbara Chisholm, on 25 November 1812 in St. Giles, Camberwell, Surrey.³

     Elspeth Bell was born circa 1759. She died in January 1759 in Menslaws, Jedburgh.¹ She was the daughter of Robert Bell Senr. and Margaret Black.¹ Elspeth Bell was buried on 19 January 1759 in the Churchyard, Ancrum.¹

     (unknown) Bell was born in 1760.¹ (unknown) Bell was the child of Robert Bell Senr. and Margaret Black.¹ (unknown) Bell died in September 1760.¹ (unknown) Bell was buried on 22 September 1760 in the Churchyard, Ancrum, where the burial is simply recorded as a child of Robert Bell. Menslaws.¹

     Barbara Chisholm was the daughter of Mark Chisholm and Barbara Bennet.^2,3 Barbara Chisholm married George Minto on 17 April 1752 in the Parish Church, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland.^1,4

     Elizabeth Fairbairn was born on 13 May 1817 in Scotland.¹ She married William Bell Grieve, son of George Grieve and Minto Bell. Elizabeth Fairbairn died circa 1878 in Grieves Corner, Lennox, Ontario, Canada.¹

     (Georg)Ina Grieve was born on 12 August 1852 in Grieves Corner, Lennox, Ontario.^1,2 She was the daughter of William Bell Grieve and Elizabeth Fairbairn.¹ (Georg)Ina Grieve married Charles G. Bradshaw on 8 September 1875 in Richmond Township, Ontario, Canada.³ (Georg)Ina Grieve died on 25 March 1929 in Deseronto, Hastings, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 76.¹

      Of Merton, County Wexford. Thomas Annesley Whitney married Julia Gaven on 16 March 1825.¹

      Rector of Mohill, Co. Leitrim. Rev. Frederick Fitzpatrick married Lady Olivia Taylour.

     Lady Olivia Taylour married Rev. Frederick Fitzpatrick.

     George Walter Haultain was born on 21 May 1854 on the SS Charity.² He died on 22 May 1854 at sea in the Straits of Belle Isle, between Labrador and Newfoundland.² He was the son of Lt. Col. Frederick William Haultain and Lucinde Helen Gordon.¹

     Alexander Gordon Haultain was born on 21 October 1872 in Montreal, Canada.² He was the son of Lt. Col. Frederick William Haultain and Lucinde Helen Gordon.¹ Alexander Gordon Haultain died on 22 April 1873 in a train near Peterborough, Canada.²

     Phillipa Gordon Azzopardi died on 3 December 1994 in Victoria.¹ She was born on 3 December 1994 in Echuca Hospital, Victoria.¹