George GREIG

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: Weaver, Bef 1799, Barry, Forfar, Fife, Scotland.

• Physical Description, 4 Apr 1799, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. Height 5 feet 10 inches, complexion fresh, hair brown, eyes light.

• Enlistment: 2nd Battalion Royal Artillery, 4 Apr 1799, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.

• Military Discharge: medically unfit (lost a leg), 13 Jun 1802, Woolwich, England.

• Occupation: Reedmaker, After 1802, Cupar, Fife, Scotland.

• Pension: was awarded a pension of one shiilling a day for life, as a result of medical discharge from the army, 1802.

George married Janet BRAND, daughter of Thomas BRAND and Isabella JERVIS, on 11 Nov 1835 in Cupar, Fife, Scotland. (Janet BRAND was born on 24 Mar 1792, christened on 25 Mar 1792 in Ceres, Fife, Scotland and died in 1878.)