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Name: Margaret Milligan
Christening Date: 27 Mar 1814
Christening Place: , KIRKGUNZEON, KIRKCUDBRIGHT, SCOTLAND
Birth Date: 21 Mar 1814
Father's Name: Robert Milligan Mother's Name: Margaret Caven
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C11872-2
System Origin: Scotland-VR
GS Film number: 1068032
Reference ID: - 2:165MH2K
Citing this Record "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/XYWD-482 : accessed 30 Jun 2013), Margaret Milligan, 21 Mar 1814.

Margaret married the widower John McDougall in 1865.

In 1883, John and Margaret from Lot 16 were travelling to Lot 7 to visit their son. They were accompanied by their 9 year old granddaughter. "When crossing the track at O'Leary Station No 1 Express Train approached. The horse was wild and the driver, a man of seventy who appears to have lost his senses in the excitement of the moment, drove him recklessly across the track...The locomotive forged fast ahead and struck the wagon, breaking it to pieces and lodging two of the occupants, Mrs McDougald and grand-daughter on the cowatcher. Mrs McDougall who had been struck on the head by the connecting bar of the locomotive lay motionless above the cow-catcher. Her husband, who was thrown violently on the road, was unconscious..." Mrs McDougall died within an hour of the accident, at the age of 68. Examiner -- 18830717 -- Page 02

Examiner -- 18830717 -- Page 02