McMILLAN, Barbra

   Another name for Barbra was McMILLAN, Katharine.

  General Notes:

This was the first of two children whose births were listed as Katharine in the parish records. A birth was recorded, as the entry here notes, but not a baptism for this child. The sequence of names of the children born to this couple as they appear for the 1820s in the parish records is:
Mary 1822
Katharine 1827
Katharine 1830
whereas in the 1841 census the sequence is;
Mary 20 years
Barbra 15 years
Catherine 12 years
It is quite possible that the first Katharine died and Barbra was born before the second Katharine, but no Barbara 's birth is listed to this couple. There are two Barbras listed in the births and baptisms of the parish of Killean and Kilchenzie in 1824 and 1833, but their mothers have different names although the father is a James McMillan.

Barbra married Gilbert GUTHRIE Apothecary, son of Hercules GUTHRIE Chirurgane, Burgess of Aberdeen and Mariorie CHALMER.¹ (Gilbert GUTHRIE Apothecary was christened on 25 Aug 1611 in Saint Nicholas Parish, Aberdeen, Scotland.)

  Marriage Notes:

(at Methlick in 1635)

"William Strachan, M.A.; pres. March 1635; trans, (by order of the Synod) to Old Machar 29th Nov.1640."

(at Old Machar in 1640)

"William Strachan, born 1610, eldest son of Arthur S., son and heir of Sir Alexander S. of Thornton, Knight (see note below); educated at King's College, Aberdeen; M.A. (1628); became Regent and Procurator-Moraviensis there, 30th June 1634; adm. to Methlick in 1635; was a member of Assembly in 1639; trans, and adm. 29th Nov. 1640; elected to Edinburgh 6th Nov. 1643, 13th July 1647, and 17th and 29th March 1648, but refused to accept any of these calls; died 8th March 1653. 'He was learned and of good life,' while he taught 'powerfullie and planelie the Word to the gryt comfort of his auditores' and was 'one of the best pastores that hes bene sene in this church thir many yeiris.' He marr. Elizabeth Middleton, who died at Tarves Manse, 30th Jan.1666, and had issue Andrew, died young; Patrick, M.A.(King's College, 1656), app. Master of the Grammar School, Aberdeen, 16th July 1656 [he is called min. of Maxton in Morland Simpson's Records of the Grammar School, but this is a mistake]; John, min. of Tarves; and Principal (see note below) of the Univ. of Edinburgh; George, min. of this parish; Arthur, min. of Mortlach. [Monteith's Mort., 130 ; Lyon Register; Spalding's Hist., 351.]"

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 6)


(at Old Machar in 1640)

"WIilliam Strachan, had issue - Alexander, bapt. 7th Nov. 1641; William, bapt. 23rd Jan. 1643; Arthur, bapt. 3rd March 1644, buried 26th Feb. 1645."

from Fasti Ecclesiae (vol 8)

Note:

"Arthur" is listed as fourth of eight sons of "John Strachan of Thornton" and "Isobell Livingston" in the Appendix to Memorials of the Scottish Families of Strachan and Wise (1877). The information, labelled No. II. is sourced from Macfarlane's Genealogical Collection, MS. (circa1735) vol ii.

No other supporting evidence has been found for thi Arthur, or any son by that name, of any laird named Sir Alexander Strachan of Thornton.


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