Charles Allan

Charles Allan was born to Hary Allan, writer, a prominent member of Robert Forbes's Leith congregation, and Elizabeth Strachen. Charles and four of his siblings appear several times in Forbes's registers (Registers of the Episcopal Congregation in Leith). Before the Rising, Charles was a cooper's servant in Leith. He was taken prisoner at Perth on April 26, 1746. The French agent Monsieur Carpentier attempted and failed to liberate Charles as a member of the French Royal Scots, and Charles was transported March 31, 1747 (Prisoners vol. 2, pp. 8-9).