MILNE, James Merchant in Norway 1 2
- Baptised: 10 April 1732, Banff parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2
- Marriage (1): GORDON, Jean 1
User ID: F878.
General Notes:
"MILNE
JAMES
GEORGE MILNE/
M
10/04/1732
147/ 20 282
Banff"
from Births and Baptisms 2
James married Jean GORDON, daughter of William GORDON 4th of Farskane, Merchant in Norway and Margaret DUFF.1 (Jean GORDON was baptised on 27 February 1727 in Cullen parish, Banffshire, Scotland 2.)
Marriage Notes:
"His (James Duff of Corsendae') daughter Margaret .... married : first, to Mr. George Milne, by whom she had one son, James Milne, a merchant in Norway, who married his cousin, a daughter of Gordon of Farskane, and had issue, Margaret Milne, who in right of her grandmother Helen, succeeded to the estate of Eden..." (page 332)
"It was this James Milne who married the Jean Gordon of Farskane, and whose daughter subsequently became heiress of Eden, and mother to James Cuninghame Grant Duff. It is thus that the Grant Duff family appeared in the entail of Corsindae, broken in 1883." (page 334)
from Book of the Duffs
Note:
The dates do not allow the relationships here to be literally accurate; 'cousin' appears to have been used in the looser old Scots sense of 'relative'. Also, Margaret Milne was Helen Duff's great granddaughter. The author makes it clear elsewhere that this is in fact the case. 1
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