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Ephraim Lindsay (or Lindsey) Junior was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, England, in 1739 and was baptised on 11 November that year. His parents were Ephraim Lindsay Senior (1705-1788) and Jane Blyth (1710-1773). Lindsay Junior and his wife Catherine had at least six children between 1766 and 1775. In 1778 he joined the British Army's 80th Regiment of Foot, also known as the Royal Edinburgh Volunteers. The Regiment sailed to New York in 1779 and fought in the American War of Independence, before surrendering at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781. The Regiment was formally disbanded in 1783 or 1784.  Lindsay’s army pension record for 1784 indicates that he was a barber by profession and had a dislocated shoulder, presumably sustained during the American War. He was convicted on 4 August 1787 at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne (Northumberland) Assizes of stealing 6 lbs of mutton and was sentenced to seven years transportation. 

On 13 October 1787 Lindsay was moved to the hulk Stanislaus and from there embarked on the Surprize for New South Wales on 16 November 1789 as part of the Second Fleet. No records of his presence in the colony have been located. It is presumed that he died en route or very soon after arriving in NSW. His wife Catherine died in Corbridge, Northumberland, England, in 1807. 

Sources
Michael Flynn, The Second Fleet: Britain's grim convict armada of 1790, 1993.

Royal Hospital, Chelsea: Disability and Royal Artillery Out-Pensions, Admission Books; Class: Wo 116; Piece Number: 8 

UK, Royal Hospital, Chelsea: Regimental Registers of Pensioners, 1713-1882 

Eric Robson. The raising of a regiment in the American War of Independence. In: Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. XXVII, No. III, Autumn, 1949. https://electricscotland.com/history/scotreg/journalofsociety2711lond.pdf 

US National Park Service. British Units at Yorktown https://www.nps.gov/york/learn/historyculture/british-units-at-yorktown.htm