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Auchenshinnoch Slab Cross - 'David McMillan and Floranc Houatson bought and payed this groun the year 1734' - now at the Holm

Name:
David Macmillan
 Relationship to Lydia daughter of William Wills
Birth:
ABT 1680 Galloway
Father:
William Macmillan
Mother:
(Mother)
Married:
Florence Howatson
Children:
Robert Macmillan
Born: 1700 Dumfries & Galloway
Died: 1770
David Macmillan
Born: 1702 Galloway
Death:
AFT 1734 Marbreck. aged 53
Remarks:
He was the Laird of Nether Holm of Dalquhairn.

David was living in Braidenoch when he took a lease of
Furmiston and Marbrack. Shortly after 1719, he was in a
position to purchase Nether Holm of Dalquhairn. In 1734 he
purchased Auchenshinnoch and on the Auchenshinnoch Slab
Cross is engraved the following :- “DAVÌD MCMILLAN AND
FLORANC HOUATSON BOUGHT AND PAYED THIS GROUN THE
YEAR 1734.”*
He married Florence Howatson and had issue : Robert,
who succeeded to Holm, and David, to Auchenshinnoch. The
father died at Marbrack.

Source: Clan Macmillan by Somerled Macmillan

Somerled Macmillan writer of the book Clan Macmiland is of the opinion that Gilbert was progenitor of the Galloway branch of Macmillans when the occasion of his coming south arose when he and some of his clansmen acted as an escort to Robert the Bruce in 1306, after he had been defeated by the MacDougalls at Tyndrum.

Three years later,in 1309, Gilbert is styled as the Baron of Ken.
Map showing Auchenshinnoch

Map of Holm - just north of Auchenshinnoch

Nether Holm in 2016

Holm looking north west towards Windy standard

Holm water

The Cairn of Dalquhairn - Pictish burial ground which the area is named after

Macmillan Family Tree by Somerled Macmillan

Macmillans Of Galloway Family Tree by Somerled Macmillan


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