Captain Hugh Clerk

Probably the "wine-merchant in Edinburgh" mentioned in Forbes's Registers of the Episcopal Congregation in Leith, 1733-1775 (p. 57), in later years referred to as Captain Hugh Clerk. Possibly a cousin to John Clerk of Penicuik (1676-1755), if he is the Captain Hugh Clerk referred to in GD18/5473 (the Captain's children share several family names with the Clerks of Penicuik). With Magdalen Drummond, had at least ten children: Anne (1720), Magdalen (1721), Robert (1722), Margaret (1723), Janet (1726), Mary (1727), Alice (1729), George (1731), John (1732), and Helen (1733).

Name

forename	Hugh
surname	Clerk
reg	Captain Hugh Clerk

sex

Male

residence

faith

Episcopalian

Languages Known

English, Scots

Links

https://catalogue.nrscotland.gov.uk

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

Variant Names

Captain Hugh Clerk (3)
- Remarkable Saying of President Forbes on his Death-bed to one of his own Relations (v05.0963.01)
Mr Clerk (2)
- Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings Leith (v01.0077.01)
- Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings at Leith (v01.0070.01)
Capn Hugh Clerk (1)
- Copy of a Letter from Tam Forbes (London, December 29. 1749) about honest old MacGrowther (v07.1467.01)

Mentions

Document (4)

Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings at Leith (v01.0070.01)
Copy of a Letter to Mr Robert Forbes at My Lady Bruce's Lodgings Leith (v01.0077.01)
Remarkable Saying of President Forbes on his Death-bed to one of his own Relations (v05.0963.01)
Copy of a Letter from Tam Forbes (London, December 29. 1749) about honest old MacGrowther (v07.1467.01)

person (4)

Margaret Cheap (CHEAM1)
Helen Clerk (CLERH2)
Magdalen Clerk (CLERM1)
Mary Clerk (CLERM2)