MCMULLEN - MCKENZIE DUMFRIES CONNECTION ??

hoadsfarm · Post by **hoadsfarm** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 12:54 am

I am searching an Edward (McMullen) McKenzie born abt 1787 Dumfries(shire) first seen Middlesex London, moved and died Greenwich 1874.
He gave the second christian name McMullen to his three eldest sons, John, George and Edward. His occupation was gardener or farmer.
The McMullen second name leads me to believe his mother or grandmother was a McMullen and or there is an Irish family connection.
I have found an Elezabeth McMullen born 1748 to James and Barbra Credie in Glasserton (Wigtownshire) with a sister Margret born 1745.
Other than that nothing in any online OPR's to make even a hint of a link.
Perhaps some one out there has come across another McKenzie with a McMullen second name or has seen a McMullen / McKenzie connection ?
Thanks in desperation....
Mike McKenzie

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 10:07 am

Just to confuse matters, McMULLEN is generally recognised as deriving from the Scottish McMILLAN. In fact the modern day pronunciation of McMILLAN in Ulster sounds exactly like McMULLEN

In this case there could well be an Irish connection, but one or more generations before that, the trail could well come back to Scotland.

David

hoadsfarm · Post by **hoadsfarm** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 7:09 pm

David,
Thanks for your input.
I have searched McMillins as well but found nothing.
To complicate matters this ancestor put birth in Dumfries on 1851 C but Aberdeen in 1871 census. This was three years before he died and he had his grandson staying on census night so it is possbile it was the grandson who filled in the return. Not withstanding that he must have believed there was an Aberdeen connection.
McMullen is clearly spelt on several docs so I have to believe this is what was intended. A birth in the Dumfries area would also strengthen the Irish tie in. You would have thought some where out there there would be a trace of a marriage, death or a birth even if it was a sibbling but .....