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Member Since: December 2011 Posts: 10 Send Message	Unknown	Report	27 Feb 2012 06:35
Member Since: December 2011 Posts: 10 Send Message	Does anyone have information on Captain Dunbar who landed in Cape Town from Glasgow? I believe he is one of the 1st ancestors of the Morrison clan.
Member Since: November 2004 Posts: 7 602 Send Message	Penny	Report	27 Feb 2012 06:47
	Is Captain his Forename?
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 672 Send Message	Alemap	Report	27 Feb 2012 08:29
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 672 Send Message	Is this the chap? "Our local Laird, Captain James Brander Dunbar of Pitgaveny, (b.1875, d.1969), was a colourful character, and an old Africa hand. I believe his father of the same name and title was the model for John Buchan’s fictional character ‘John Macnab’." If so "google" his name.
Member Since: December 2011 Posts: 10 Send Message	Unknown	Report	27 Feb 2012 08:35
Member Since: December 2011 Posts: 10 Send Message	thanks, will have a look into this. was only told his name was Captain Dunbar.