74th Regiment of Foot

Chronology

1787 raised as 74th (Highlanders) Regiment of Foot
1881 merged with 71st (Highland) Light Infantry to become the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
1959 amalgamated with the Royal Scots Fusiliers to form the Royal Highland Fusiliers (Princess Margaret's Own Glasgow and Ayrshire Regiment)
2003 amalgamated with the other regiments of the Scottish Division to become part of the Royal Regiment of Scotland
2006 known as the Royal Highland Fusiliers, 2nd Battalion, The Royal Regiment of Scotland (2 SCOTS)

74th Regiment of Foot: Officers dying in India 1790-1804 Your Archives
74th Regiment of Foot Wikipedia
Highland Light Infantry Wikipedia
Royal Highland Fusiliers Wikipedia
Royal Regiment of Scotland Wikipedia
74th (Highland) Regiment of Foot including deployments Regiments.org, an archived site
The Highland Light Infantry (City of Glasgow Regiment) including deployments: 1st Battalion, 2nd Battalion Regiments.org, an archived site
The Royal Highland Fusiliers rhf.org.uk including Museum and Library. Covers the 21st, 71st and 74th Regiments
Black Soldiers in Northamptonshire Regiments of the British Army wellingboroughrec.org.uk. William Damerun, a Eurasian enlisted at age 7 and served in the 74th Foot 24/09/1800-27/09/1805 (under age), the 94th Foot, period not noted, but under age, the 69th Foot, 25/09/1807-19/07/1824, the 48th Foot, 20/07/1824-31/07/1834, and the 55th Foot, 01/07/1834-30/11/1837 when he was discharged on medical grounds. He was a musician by trade. His brother James joined the 69th Foot 01/08/1808 as a drummer, aged 7 or 8, served in the same regiments and was discharged on medical grounds 30/11/1842

Historical Record of the Seventy-Fourth Regiment (Highlanders) containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1787, and of its subsequent services to 1850 by Richard Cannon 1850. Google Books. The Regiment sailed for Madras in 1788, page 4
History of the Scottish Highlands : Highland clans and Highland regiments Volume 2 “74th Highlanders” by John S Keltie (c.1886) Archive.org. Indian service commenced in 1788 in Madras
"Seventy-Fourth Regiment", page 51 The History of Scotland, its Highlands, Regiments and Clans, Volume VIII by James Browne 1909 Archive.org