Alan Milliken's Genealogical Home Page
My Great Grandparents
Agnes Lawrie and Hugh Milliken
John (christening), Ann (aged 4) and James (aged 2)
Glasgow, 1891
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My great grandfather, Hugh Milliken, was born in 1866 at Ballyskeagh near the town of Newtownards in the North of Ireland, and was the eldest son of James Milliken and Eliza Gray of Ballyskeagh. In all, they had five children, Catherine, Hugh, John, James and Robert Milliken. For over 160 years, my ancestors had lived and farmed in Upper Ballyskeagh. However, after their leasehold expired in the 1860s, they moved to Belfast and later, between Ballymena and Newtownards. From here, Hugh moved to Glasgow in the 1880s and married my great mother, Agnes Brock Lawrie, a dressmaker from Kilsyth, on 22nd May 1889. They had eight children, four of whom survived into adulthood:
- Ann Kennedy Lawrie HORN, b. March 9, 1887, 106 Hawthorn Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; m. 1st Peter Hind, in Glasgow, on August 8, 1906, (he died in a tragic accident on April 21, 1907), 2nd Andrew McKee, at St. Anne’s Cathedral in Belfast, on February 9, 1918; d. September 24, 1961, at Belfast. She had two children, Peter and Netta Hind.
- James Lawrie MILLIKEN, b. December 2, 1889, at 106 Hawthorn Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; d. July 13, 1892, at 340 Saracen Street, Possilpark, 2 ½ years, caused by Pneumonia; buried Lambhill Cemetery on August 2, 1892.
- John Lawrie MILLIKEN, b. May 1, 1891, at 340 Saracen Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; m. Margaret Jane Gilpin, at the Victoria Memorial Hall in Belfast on January 29, 1923; d. May 15, 1968, at Newtownabbey. He had four children, Ruth, Lucy, John and William Milliken (my father)
- Agnes Lawrie MILLIKEN, b. Apr 28, 1893, 340 Saracen Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; emigrated to Canada in 1919; m. John McKee, at Saskatchewan, Canada, on December 10, 1920; d. 1973 at Nigeria Falls. She had five children, John, Robert, Agnes, Arnold and Mavis McKee.
- Hugh MILLIKEN, b. Aug 14, 1895; 340 Saracen Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; joined the Royal Rifles Irish, killed in action on March 21, 1918, in the fields of Flanders.
- William Jamieson MILLIKEN, b. December 25, 1897, at 59 Mansion Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; d. on September 17, 1898, at the same address, aged 8 months, caused by Cholera and Diarrhoea; buried Lambhill Cemetery on September 20, 1898.
- William James MILLIKEN, b. September 24, 1899, at 59 Mansion Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; d. May 18, 1900, at the same address, 7 months, of Pneumonia 5 weeks; buried Lambhill Cemetery on May 21, 1900.
- Robert MILLIKEN, b. February 17, 1902, at 59 Mansion Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; d. November 20, 1902, at 60 Mansion Street, Possilpark, 9 ½ months, caused by Pneumonia, 16 days; buried Lambhill Cemetery on November 24, 1902.
- Mary Lawrie MILLIKEN, b. February 17, 1902, at 59 Mansion Street, Possilpark, Glasgow; d. December 12, 1902, at 60 Mansion Street, Possilpark, caused by Pneumonia, 5 weeks; buried Lambhill Cemetery.
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In March 1981, almost 100 years after my great grandfather moved to Soctland, I made the same journey and moved to Bathgate in West Lothian, my mother's birthplace. I now live in Armadale, only a mile or so from Bathgate. My father and mother, brother and two sisters, still live in Carrickfergus in Northern Ireland, where I was born. Since moving to Scotland, I have always taken an interest in family history and since 1992, it has developed into a One Name Study and search for the origins of the SURNAME and it's heritage both in the North of Ireland and Scotland. This search took a new direction in May 1995, when Don Milligan of Seattle in North America and I began to correspond and exchange ideas on the origins of our common ancestor who came from Nithsdale in Dumfriesshire. Since 1995, Don has made a series of visits to Scotland and co-founded the 'Regarde Bien News Letter', which we first produced online in 1999. Neither of us had anticipated that within a few years, this would result in the founding the Mullikine/Amuligane Clan Society in Salt Lake City in 2001.
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Over the years, I have accumulated a range of Genealogical research and material, both primary and secondary, relating to the variant surnames Millican, Milligan, Millikan, Milliken, Millikin, Mulliken, Mullikin, and Mulligan etc. It has been claimed that the Milliken/Milligans in Scotland are a Sept of the Clan MacMillan. This claim is spurious and is unwarranted by the Lord Lyon Office. The ancient family of Mullikine/Amuligane belongs to a group of indigenous Clans and Families in Nithsdale and Galloway, whose surnames were once prefixed by "ap" or "A", meaning "son or grandson of". The genealogical evidence relating to the origins of the Mullikine/Amuliganes can be found in the Regarde Bien and the Documents and Records indexed in the following subdirectories. These subdirectories are still being developed, but in time, I hope they will contain a rich source of genealogical material for those interested in the above variant surnames.
