McMILLAN, Sarah (DNA Linked) 1 2
- Born: About 1810
- Marriage (1): ADAMS, Thomas (DNA Linked) 1
- Died: Before 30 March 1851 3
Other names for Sarah were ADAMS, Sarah,4 5 MACK, Sarah, MACMILLAN, Sarah,5 McMORAN, Sarah,6 McMULLAN, Sally 3 and McMULLEN, Sarah.4
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General Notes:
When her daughter Rebecca married in 1858 the maiden name of Sarah Adams was recorded as Sarah Mack.
In the death certificate of her daughter, Mary, in 1864, she was recorded as 'Sarah Adams maiden surname Adams deceased'.
In the 1870 marriage certificate of her son James Sarah was recorded as Sarah McMullen.
Thomas Adams died in 1878. In his death certificate he was recorded as a 'Retired farmer Widower of Sarah McMillan'.
Sarah was not named at all by the informant of her daughter Rebecca's death in 1913. 4 7 8
Research Notes:
SARAH
There is something of a mystery around Sarah.
She is not listed in any Scottish census with her husband. In the 1851 census for Crichton, Midlothian, Thomas is recorded as a widower.
Her eldest child, Jane, was born about 1828 or 1829 in Ireland, so one might assume that since Thomas was also born in Ireland, Sarah was born there too. Her youngest known child, James, was born about 1842, also in Ireland, so one can assume from these approximate dates that Sarah was born between about 1898 and 1814, taking these years as the extreme limits, and more probably between about 1802 and 1810.
The data for the births of the children fits with the census information we have in that Thomas, at least, and his children, possibly came to Scotland from Ireland between 1842 and 1851. Whether Sarah was living or deceased when they made that journey we do not know.
Sarah's maiden surname is also uncertain. In the Scottish certificates for her husband and children the surname varies. Her surname is recorded as McMillan in her husband's death certificate, the information for which was provided by a grandson. In the marriage or death certificates of her children, which each would have provided, her surname is rendered as McMullen, McMullan, McMoran and, in her daughter Rebecca's marriage certificate, simply as Mack. On occasion, it is not known and her married surname of Adams is repeated as her maiden surname.
So what happened to Sarah? It may be that Sarah died in the hard times of Ireland of the 1840s, or she may have died in childbirth. Whatever did happen to her is unknown for the present.
Sarah married Thomas ADAMS (DNA Linked), son of David ADAMS and Margaret PILLO probably County Armagh, Ireland.1 (Thomas ADAMS (DNA Linked) was born about 1795 in probably County Armagh, Ireland 1 and died 7 April 1878 at 2.00 am in Clay Coats, Corstorphine parish, Midlothian, Scotland 1.). The cause of his death was heart disease of uncertain duration.
Marriage Notes:
No marriage record has been found for this couple in the Irish or Scottish registers.
However, when Thomas Adams died in 1878 his death certificate recorded him as a 'Retired farmer Widower of Sarah McMillan'. This, as well as reference to Sarah as the mother of Thomas' children in their marriage and death certificates, provide circumstantial evidence that Thomas Adams and Sarah were husband and wife. 1
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