John Mc Innes enlisted in the Royal Engineers in Glasgow on 16th February 1855.Have traced quite a few descendants but cannot find his ancestors as there is a doubt as to the truth in his enlistment paper saying he was born in Barony,Lanark.He could have been born in Ireland.He was my great grandfather.
He married twice;Harriet Treffry from Devon in 1862 and they had 11 or 12 children.Harriet died in 1882 and a few months later he married a Sarah Johnson Collins.Her wherabouts are a mystery.He died in December 1886 not long after his 50th birthday.His son Edward WellsMcInnes was my grandfatherand my father was Edwin Michael Mc Innes a former editor of the Derby Evening Telegraph[part of the Associated Newspaper group]

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