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Note: HI6954
Note: (Research):Left Dalhousie and went to New York. Source: Lois (Seggelink) McMillan who credits Peter Andersen
She died in the United States. Source: Lois (Seggelink) McMillan who credits John Hay, a descendant of Elizabeth McMillan and John Hay. John notes that this information is from a note dictated to Arthur Hay in 1908 by his mother Janet Fleming.
The name Wachop/Wauchope (alternative spellings include Waughope, Waughob, Waughup) comes from the place Wauchopedale near Langholm in Dumfriesshire, and the medieval family of "de Wauchope" apparently held considerable lands in Roxburghshire. Source: Lois (Seggelink) McMillan who credits Graeme Mackenzie
To Vernon McMillan August 2002:
"A Mary Wauchop was baptised at Prestonpans, East Lothian, on 7th October 1773, to George Wauchop and Jean Lyon. This is the only birth/baptism of a Mary Wauchope in the 1770's, but that is no proof that it is the correct one - since no all the births/baptisms of such a person can be guaranteed to have been registered in the surviving Church of Scotland records. Howver, when one looks at the names of the rest of this family, they are all repeated in your M'millan family, which strongly suggests the likelihood that this is the right Wauchope family.
"Three further clues point to the same conclusion - that this is the correct family of Wauchopes:
Firstly, the fact that your 3xGreat-grandmother Mary Wauchope is recorded at the baptism of one of her children as 'Jean' - a possible mixup with her mother.
Secondly, that James M'millan and Susan Hogg named one of their children Jane/Jean Waughope McMillan (again probably for James M'millan's maternal grandmother).
Thirdly, that a Robert Wauchope was witness to the baptism of two of the children of William M'millan and Mary Wauchope (he being presumably the brother of Mary).
If it were true that Mary Wauchope M'millan was the daughter of George Wauchope and Jean Lyon, then we might reasonably assume that the first daughter of William M'millan and Mary Wauchope was named for William's mother, rather than for - as the normal naming pattern went - Mary's mother. This might also be expected because we know that William M'millan himself shared the same name as his own father, and in those circumstances the normal naming pattern was quite altered.
This would suggest that William M'millan, the husband of Mary Wauchope, might have been the son of a William M'millan and an Elizabeth Unknown. "Might" is, however, the operative word, and this can only be a clue as to where I might look for the birth/baptism of William M'millan junior, and for the identity of his parents; more substantial evidence will be required to provide any sort of acceptable case - and for that I will have to go on looking."
Source: Lois (Seggelink) McMillan who credits Graeme Mackenzie
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