Maclagan connections

My 4 times great grandmother was Elspeth McLAGAN. She married John BUTTER at Moulin in 1787. She may have been the daughter of Thomas McLAGAN and Elizabeth BUTTER but I have no proof.

View the descendants of Elspeth McLAGAN

Speculation

A new theory (Nov. 2004) sees Elspeth's possible parents as Donald McLAGAN & Margaret McLAGAN and also possibly linking to the McLAGANs who farmed Pitgir at Logierait. View this (pdf file in new window). I am amending this as new evidence comes to hand and will integrate this with the main family file if proof can be found.

Other families

I am also interested in this surname in a wider context, particularly where there are Perthshire connections. More details will follow. Meantime, some links to interesting individuals :

Dr Thomas John MACLAGAN (1838-1903), physician and pioneer of salicin, the forerunner of asprin.
Major General Ewen George SINCLAIR-MACLAGAN (1868-1948)
William Dalrymple MACLAGAN (1926-1910), Archbishop of York
Sir Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan (1879-1951), Director of the Victoria and Albert Museum

Derek Doyle has published an interesting paper about the family connections between the last two and others called The Maclagan family: six generations of service.