hi folks, a happy new year.
I'm very hopeful that your offer still stands and that you may have some
McMILLANs & QUIRKs amongst your collection of MIs for Kirkmaiden. By any chance do the parents
John & Agnes McMillan and maybe brother & wife
Mathew QUIRK & Mary MAXWELL show up in your records? It's very early i know and if they did have stones - if indeed they were still living there when they died - they may well be worn away by now, but i live in hope. I know I'm scraping away in the dark here, but maybe by picking away at it I'll finally come on something that'll give me a breakthrough
I don't know if the Mathew QUIRK living in Kirkmaiden, was Agnes's brother or not, as they don't appear in the iGI. I'm just hoping i might find clues that may help confirm what little i have
I'm pretty certain i've tracked my McMillans back to this couple & their kids:
John McMILLAN & Agnes QUIRK IGI: c118902
HUGH McMILLAN chr.18 NOV 1778 Kirkmaiden By Drummore, WIG
MARTHA McMILLAN b.27th; chr.30 OCT 1780 " "
male McMILLAN b.26th; chr.31 JUL 1782 " "
JAMES McMILLAN chr.11 AUG 1783 " "
AGNES McMILLAN b.5th; chr.9 JAN 1786 " "
ANTHONY McMILLAN b.7th; chr.10 JUL 1788 " "
WILLIAM McMILLAN b.15th chr.18 NOV 1790 " "
I think Hugh is mine and settled as a mariner in Port William judging by his 1841 & 1851 censuses. however, if you were to spot a Hugh McMillan dead in his parents grave, it would suggest I'd found the wrong Hugh. I live in hope
I'm hoping that these may be my Agnes's family, perhaps her brother,
Mathew QUIRK & Mary MAXWELL MARGARET QUIRK - chr.28 MAR 1780 Stoneykirk, Wigtown, Scotland
MARIA ANN QUIRK - chr.2 AUG 1781 Kirkmaiden By Drummore, WIG
MARGRAT QUIRK - chr.1 AUG 1782 " "
WILLIAM QUIRK - chr.22 JUL 1783 " "
PETER QUIRK - chr.5 AUG 1784 " "
MATTHEW QUIRK - chr.22 APR 1786 " "
WILLIAM QUIRK - chr.20 APR 1788 " "
JOHN QUIRK - chr.20 APR 1788 " "
ALEXANDER GORDON QUIRK - chr.10 JUN 1790 " "
MATHEW QUIRK - chr.12 JUL 1791 " "
I found these Kirkmaiden deaths but no other info. but hopefully it will help, perhaps if there was an age as well.
Quirk William Clanard 23 Oct 1784, a child
Quirk Matthw Clanord 25 May 1786
Quirk Mary Ann Clanard 29 Feb 1789
1841 census Mochrum WIG Vol.892 ED2 pg.20 - transcr.
Addr.: Port William Village, Mochram WIG
Hugh McMILLAN 60yrs; b.c.1781 WIG Occ: Mariner
Agnes McMILLAN 25yrs; b.c.1816 WIG
Margt McMILLAN 20yrs; b.c.1821 WIG
Janet McMILLAN 15yrs; b.c.1826 WIG
with Walker family
1851 Old Luce WIG; 894 ED:2 p.6 sch.18
Address: Staer Haven Inn, Old Luce, Wigtownshire
Hugh McMILLAN, 70 b.c.1781 Kirkmaiden, WIG; Visitor, Occ. Mariner
with Innkeepers family &c
Thank you for your time and trouble
le durachd
Fionnghal