FINDINGS from the
JACOBITE DATABASE
of 1745
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Wherein the irascible, multi-cultural pro- and antagonists under the banner of the Stuarts carry out their most militarily successful venture against the established Hanoverian regime…
During the research for my MSc dissertation in 2004, I had the opportunity to closely examine and quantify many sources containing thousands of names linked to Scottish Jacobitism in the 18th century. In appraising the causes of both loyalty and resistance to the movement, I was struck by the disparateness of data within both the primary and secondary sources with which I worked. Many scholars had been able to list out names and abstracts of hundreds of these suspected or convicted Jacobites, both in Charles Edward Stuart’s army and also on the Scottish home front. This was largely in thanks to the great corpus of publishing on the subject that surfaced in the late 19th century and again in the 1920s and 1930s, when post-Victorian fascination with the romanticism of the Jacobite movement reached a zenith on both sides of the Scottish/English border. But even within the plethora of texts, transportation lists, and muster rolls that form the backbone of what we currently know about the constituency of 18th-century Jacobitism, there are inconsistencies, gaps, and deletions, thus admitted by many of the very scholars who collated this data. As well, there is little accessibility to details about the people connected to Jacobitism other than the names which are listed out, removed from the context of the movement itself.
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