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My Great Grandparents


Agnes Lawrie and Hugh Milliken
John (christening), Ann (aged 4) and James (aged 2)
Glasgow, 1891



        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 their land in Upper Ballyskeagh. However, after their leasehold expired in the 1860s, they moved to Belfast and later, Ballymena. From there, 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:

        1. Ann Kennedy Lawrie Horn, b. March 9, 1887.
        2. James Lawrie Milliken, b. December 2, 1889.
        3. John Lawrie Milliken, b. May 1, 1891.
        4. Agnes Lawrie Milliken, b. April 28, 1893.
        5. Hugh Milliken, b. August 14, 1895.
        6. William Jamieson Milliken, b. 1898.
        7. William James Milliken, b. May 1, 1900.
        8. Mary Lawrie Milliken, b. February 7, 1902.

        The family lived in the Possilpark district of Glasgow, where Hugh worked as a forman fitter at the Saracen Foundary. In 1909, the family moved to Hardgate near Clydebank and lived at Eden Villa, a bungalow situated on the main road leading to Duntochor Cross. Hugh died on Friday 13th May 1910, aged 42 years, after a prolonged illness lasting eleven months. By now, my grandfather, John Milliken, and his two sisters, Ann and Agnes, all worked at the gaint multinational Singer Sewing Machine Company at Kilbowie in Clydebank. My grandfather soon joined the ranks of the 'Red Clydesiders' and took part in the infamous labour strike of 1911 at the Singer Company, which cost him dearly - he lost his job. By the following year, his mother and all the family had moved to the North of Ireland, to begin a new life.



        In March 1981, almost 100 years after my great grandfather moved to Soctland, without realising it, 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.




        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.


        COUNTRY DOCUMENTS AND RECORDS
        Scotland Ayrshire
        Dumfriesshire
        Edinburgh and Lothians
        Kirkcudbrightshire
        Wigtownshire
        Scotland - General
        Ireland # 1600-1900
        England To Be Created
        North America To Be Created
        Caribbean To Be Created








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