MILN, Margaret ^{1 2}

   Other names for Margaret were GRANT DUFF, , Mrs ² and MILNE,.³

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  General Notes:

"On the death of Mrs. Udny Duff (ie Margaret, daughter of William Duff of Braco), on March 27, 1793, William, tlie eldest son of William Gordon, fourth and last of Farskane (and his wife Margaret Duff of Crombie), and grandson of Helen Duff who married William, third of Farskane, succeeded his father's first cousin in the estate of Eden ; his great-uncle William Duff of Braco having, in 1713, executed a deed of entail in favour of his 'heirs male and female' as regarded this property, wliile the lands of Braco, etc., went to his heir-male, who was his uncle. [....]

He was succeeded by Margaret, daughter of his eldest sister Jean, who had married James Miln, grandson of James Duff of Corsindae." (page 494)

from Book of the Duffs

Margaret married John GRANT of Kincardine O'Neil.¹ (John GRANT of Kincardine O'Neil was born about 1736,² died on 9 May 1799 ² and was buried in 1799 in Kincardine O'Neil parish, Aberdeenshire, Scotland ².)

  Marriage Notes:

"He (William Gordon 'of Eden') was succeeded by Margaret, daughter of his eldest sister Jean, who had married James Miln, grandson of James Duff of Corsindae. This Margaret Miln was fifty-five at the time of succeeding, 'a handsome and accomplished woman.' She had been married many years before to John Grant of Kincardine O'Neil (died 1799), by whom she had had a large family:

1. Margaret, born 1777; married, 1813, James Allen; died 1818; buried in Banff.

2. Jane, born 1778 ; died unmarried, in 1857 ; buried in Banff.

3. Helen, born 1781 ; married, first, Duncan ; secondly. Colonel Grant of Woodside, Elgin.

4. James, born 1789, of whom presently.

5. Thomas, died unmarried.

G. Elizabeth, married Rev. Alexander Walker of Elgin and Urquhart, one of whose sons married one of the Duffs of Elgin (see chapter xxix.), and another married one of the Gordons of Park (see chapter xxv.).

Mrs. Margaret Miln Grant assumed the name of Duff (from her great-grandmother and great-grand-uncle), and went to reside at Eden, where she died and was buried in 1824."

from Book of the Duffs




"She (Margaret Miln) had married John Grant of Kincardine O'Neil (he died 9th May, 1799, aged 63, and is buried at Kincardine O'Neil), who erected the mansion-house, and did much in the way of planting and beautifying that Deeside estate. Mrs Grant, on succeeding to Eden, adopted the surname of Duff, and, dying at Eden on 20th August, 1824, was interred in the private family mausoleum within the old church of King-Edward.

Two white marble tablets therein bear the following respective inscriptions -

(1). In the hope of a blessed resurrection here rest the remains,

1. Of Mrs Grant Duff of Eden, relict of John Grant, Esq. of Kincardine O'Neil (first resident proprietor and third possessor of the estate of Eden under an entail executed by her grand uncle, William Duff Esq. of Braco, A.D. 1713 in favor of heirs male and female), died at Eden 20th August, 1824, aged 67."

from Aberdeenshire Epitaphs ¹