THIRTEENTH GENERATION

7544. Sir James TODD ⁽⁹⁸⁵⁾ was born about 1630 in Scotland. ⁽¹⁰⁰⁸⁾ He died in 1669 or 1679 in Scotland. ⁽¹⁰⁰⁹⁾ James Todd of Dunbar [the father or the son?] and Robert Todd of Fenwick died in a shipwreck in 1669 according to an unknown source or in 1679 according to Green. -- Esvelt
"James Todd: Laird [Lord] of Dunbar. Captured in the Battle of Bothwell Bridge (near Glasgow on the River Clyde). Marched to Edinburgh and held prisioner with others in an open pen into the winter. Loaded on a ship (the Crown) with about 250 others to be shipped to the West Indies and sold as slaves. Sank in a storm off the Orkney Islands. Could not escape, as the hold remained locked when the ship went down. Son John captured by Graham, but escaped to Northern Ireland." -- Esvelt.

"Battle of Bothwel Bridge 1679 , http://www.scotclans.com/clans/1679.htm: Following success against the military at the recent Battle of Drumclog, the Conventiclers’support had swollen to six thousand when they came together at Hamilton in June 1679. Differences between covenanters which had undermined them through the 1650s, again created factions among their numbers. While some argued that their direction should be decided by a General Assembly which acknowledged the established powers, others denounced the governing bodies and their ‘Indulgences’. Meanwhile, with ten thousand men and discipline, the Duke of Monmouth, the Earl of Linlithgow and the vengeful Graham of Claverhouse mustered by the Clyde Bridge at Bothwell. On 22 June they attacked the disorganised Covenanters and won easily. Although deaths on the field were few, two hundred were killed later. Of the fourteen hundred who were captured or surrendered, another two hundred and fifty eight were shipwrecked while being transported in The Crown of London." -- Esvelt.

"Todd, Sir James from Ellerslie Posted by: Donna Dexter July 15, 1998. Sir James Todd, Laird of Dunbar who drowned off Orkney after being captured by Graham of Claverhouse at the Battle of Bothwell Bridge. I have found nothing except that his son John was captured and taken prisoner after his father's death...I would also like to know if anyone knows anything of their ancestral home in Ellerslie." -- Esvelt.
He was married to Unknown UNKNOWN.

7545. Unknown UNKNOWN. Children were:

3708 i. John TODD.
ii. Robert TODD died in 1669 in Off the Orkneys. ^(648)(1010) James Todd of Dunbar and Robert Todd of Fenwick, brothers of John Todd born about 1650 in Ireland, were captured and sentenced to be transported to America. They drowned in a shipwreck along with 200 or the 250 passengers. -- Edney.

James Todd of Dunbar [the father or the son?] and Robert Todd of Fenwick died in a shipwreck in 1669 according to an unknown source or in 1679 according to Green. -- Esvelt

iii. James TODD died in 1669 in Off the Orkneys. ^(648)(1011) James Todd of Dunbar and Robert Todd of Fenwick, brothers of John Todd born about 1650 in Ireland, were captured and sentenced to be transported to America. They drowned in a shipwreck in 1669 off the Orkeys along with 200 or the 250 passengers. -- Edney.

James Todd of Dunbar [the father or the son?] and Robert Todd of Fenwick died in a shipwreck in 1669 according to an unknown source or in 1679 according to Green. -- Esvelt