“Salmon fisher at Spey”, lived at Coble-pot of Airndilly on the River Spey opposite Rothes.

James Dunbrack was born about 1727 in Scotland, the son of Charles Dunbrack and Isobel Mitchell. He was christened in the Parish of Rothes, Morayshire, Scotland in 1727. He married Ann Sharp (1726-1781) and together with his wife and at least two of his children
migrated to Halifax, Nova Scotia prior to the Revolutionary War. An older son William apparently remained in Scotland, as there was a record of children born to him there. There could well have been a first-born son Charles, named for his paternal grandfather, who died before 1771, thus repeating the name. Nothing is known of the younger children who may have died of illness before the family sailed or died on the voyage.

James died August 9, 1776 at the age of 48, and was buried in St. Paul's Cemetery, Halifax. His wife, Ann Sharp was "murdered by persons unknown" in Halifax five years later and is buried beside her husband [source: History of Halifax, reprint by Nova Scotia Historical Society, 1892-1894].

According to research furnished by Hazel Dunbrack Wilkins of Somerset, MA (1991) the earliest date of record of the Dunbrack family in Nova Scotia is on a gravestone in St. Paul's Cemetery, Halifax: 16

"James DUNBERACK [sic], died August 9, 1776, aged 48 years with his wife, "Ann DUNBERACK [sic], died June 5, 1781, aged 55 years".