Genealogical Oddities (XXVIII): A Flemish Soldier is Laid To Rest in Aragon
On 18 January 1722 a soldier named Gil Hallfaste died in the remote Aragonese town of Estadilla. He was stated to belong to the Company led by ‘Don Bernardo Macsuini’ (Bernard MacSweeney) in the 1st Batallion of the Hibernia Regiment. The burial record states that the deceased soldier was about 50 years old, a Flemish…