RIPERTZE, MARGARET [SSNE 8285]
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Margaret Ripertze was a Dutch woman and widow of Alexander Pargill, a soldier in Captain Alexander Lammy’s company of Major-General Hugh Mackay of Scourie’s [SSNE 5005] regiment of the Scots-Dutch Brigade. Pargill was killed at the battle of Killiecrankie, 27th July 1689, a major engagement of the Scottish Highland War (1689-92). After Pargill’s death, Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Graham, of the same regiment, petitioned the Scottish Privy Council on Margaret’s behalf. He requested that she be offered financial assistance so she could return to the Dutch Republic. On 1st October 1689, the Council ordered that she be paid five Rijksdaalders to facilitate this.
Sources:
Henry Paton (ed.), Records of the Privy Council of Scotland, Volume 14, 3rd Series (Edinburgh, 1933), Act in favour of Margaret Ripertze, 26th September 1689, p. 351.
National Records of Scotland, E7/5, Treasury Register, 1688-1689, 1st October 1689, f. 223.
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 1689-10-01, as REPATRIATED
- Capacity PETITIONER, purpose WIDOW