An un-placed member of the family (until 1999) was WILLIAM, whose service record shows him b. Edinburgh 1790. He joined the Royal Navy 1802, serving in H.M.S. Defence at the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), and H.M.S. Victory at Corunna, invalided 1814. He joined the Excise service in 1824 and was posted to the care of ëCollector Dumbreckí at Perth and transferred to Glasgow in 1825 when qualified. He married his first wife Jane Inglis of Lasswade in 1816 and his second wife Margaret McNicol of Glenarchy in 1820 having a son by each wife. In 1825 he lived at the address in Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh of Robert the Hatter.