As I noted Alexander is the end of my XY line. Supposedly one reason to trace such a line is there are certain genetic traits that pass in gender alternating ways. One thing is your hair, which you inherit from your mother's father. So, I have Alexander Milne's hair. And I can safely say, he had great hair--it's one of my best physical attributes and few men pushing 50 have such a full head of hair too.
Alexander Milne was from Brechin, Angus, Scotland where he married on 27 May 1816 to Anne Fiddler, the daughter of Ernest and Sarah (Black) Fiddler. She was born on 8 May 1797 in nearby Arbroath. The problem arises in the commonness of the name Alexander Milne. The IGI (International Genealogical Index) lists over 200 Alexander Milne entries from born 1780-1800 in Scotland. 151 of those are just in Angus County.
Alexander has four children all surnamed Milne: Marjory (1817), Elizabeth (1819), Ernest Fiddler (1825), and Robert Galloway (1827), all baptized at Arbroath. Alexander is called a corn merchant in 1835 and appears in the 1841 census without a wife. However, without that wife and children it is hard to determine if he is still alive in 1851 in the next census or if he died post 1855 and has a death certificate. There are simply too many. If I could work a bit more, I might nail him down and go back at least one, if not two more generations.
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