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Hi. I have been reading this post with interest. I have second cousins (in Canada) who are descendants of Agnes Robertson McMillan, and so I have been filling out their part of my tree on Ancestry.com.  I would like to add something to the discussion of Alexander McKellar.  He is easily found in the 1901 Scotland census, with his parents John and Jane at 18 Wellington Street.  But I note that in 1891 he is listed as Alexander McGillivray, with same parents and siblings.  This suggests that he was adopted, or that the McKellars were not his biological parents.  The fact that he is the youngest child virtually rules out the possibility of him being a child of Jane's, but to a different father, pre marriage to John.  I further note that there are no later records of an Alex McGillivray that match, suggesting that subsequently he went by the McKellar name.  I wonder if you were aware of this? Regards, Philip. [Dr Philip Czaplowski, Melbourne, Australia].