GUNN, GEORGE [SSNE 504]

Surname

GUNN

First name

GEORGE

Title/rank

OFFICER

Nationality

SCOT

Region

DIRLOT, HALKIRK PARISH CAITHNESS

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

George Gunn was the son of Alexander Robson Gunn in Dirlot (Halkirk parish in Caithness). George Gunn was an officer in the Danish-Norwegian army in 1627. He was in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment. He might well be the captain of that name who was made a burgess of Aberdeen on 26 June 1639. According to the clan oral tradition, once he retired from service, George settled in county Kerry in Ireland after receiving land as a reward for his military service. Mackay makes him a colonel in the army of King Charles I at a later stage.

Sources:
T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p. 130; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 188; R. Gordon, A Genealogical History of the Earldom of Sutherland (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 402; M. R. Gunn, History of the Clan Gunn (Glasgow, 1969), pp. 123, 130; Gunn Herald, I, no. 42 (June 1998), p. 12; J. Mackay, An Old Scots Brigade (Edinburgh, 1885), p. 208; Miscellany of the New Spalding Club, II, 1908, p. 383.

This entry was kindly updated by Dr Thomas Brochard

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1627-01-01, as OFFICER

Departed 1627-12-31, as OFFICER

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY