John C. Milligan

• General Notes
  • Hi Gail.   I got a lot of my information from 'Along the North Shore' too.  I've done some of my own research since then, including a visit to Dumfries when I toured the UK last year. One thing that I found was that the place of origin of the Milligans, which has been recorded as 'Canheath, Kirklavritch, Dumfries,' is actually a rather bad corruption of the real place name, which is Conheath, Caerlaverock Parish (pronounced Car-lav-rock), Dumfries. Obviously, by the time Robert Milligan died on PEI, memories of the old  country had faded a bit.   I have discovered lots of info on various Milligan families around Conheath in the late 1700's, but unfortunately, I learned from a lady who now lives on Conheath Farm who has researched the local history that the parish pastor in the late 1700's got into a dispute with his congregation, and in spite, destroyed the parish records from that time. Bad news for us, as this caused a gap in the records that includes the time when Robert Milligan was born and when John Milligan and Margaret Sloan were married.  As for Elizabeth MacDougall/MacDougald, I did find the record of her marriage with Robert in the Richmond Parish church records. As you probably know, they were married Nov. 25 1830 by Rev. A.V. Wiggens. What you may not know is that the record states that she was from Lot 16, and that one of the 3 witnesses at the wedding was a John MacDougall - he was likely her brother or father.   Regarding Margaret Sloan, I've gathered some names, but nothing confirmable yet.  I hope that this was of interest to you.   Regards,  John MacDonald