In our last instalment, we left FLM as the commission in HMS Renown – a 30 gun frigate - ended on 25th August 1764. Hostilities in the Seven Years’ War were ended in 1763 by the Peace of Paris, and FLM went on half pay in January 1765. FLM appears to have made no provision for his first, Jamaican family, born of Mary Arnott, although they were acknowledged in the parish records. His son, John seems to have made good and so perhaps they were set-up by their father before he left Jamaica. John must have been conceived just before Frederick left Jamaica in Renown for England: was he back for John’s baptism in July 1765?In our last instalment, we left FLM as the commission in HMS Renown – a 30 gun frigate - ended on 25th August 1764. Hostilities in the Seven Years’ War were ended in 1763 by the Peace of Paris, and FLM went on half pay in January 1765. FLM appears to have made no provision for his first, Jamaican family, born of Mary Arnott, although they were acknowledged in the parish records. His son, John seems to have made good and so perhaps they were set-up by their father before he left Jamaica. John must have been conceived just before Frederick left Jamaica in Renown for England: was he back for John’s baptism in July 1765?

Read more: Clan Maitland Newsletter June 2018