McMicking of Miltonise

An Excerpt from "Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the LANDED GENTRY" 1863 Edition

McMicking, Thomas Esq., of Miltonise, co. Wigton JP, born 13 March 1786, married 20 December 1811 to Jane youngest daughter of John Morin, Esq., of Lagan, co. Dumfries and had issue, Thomas JP for Wigton and Dunbarton, born 1812.

LINEAGE:

9^th in descent from Mahun Rusid was Sir Gilbert MacMichan, who married Agnes MacDonald, daughter of John, the son of Angus, King or Lord of the Isles. His son John MacMichan, was grandfather of John who sold his estates and died in France 1507, the last of that ilk.

Gilbert, 2^nd in descent from him regained a part of the old estate by marrying Isabel Hamilton, of Killantringan, which barony has since continued to be the designation of the chief of McMicking.

At the time of the Scottish Reformation, some of the clan were not undistinguished; the 2^nd son of Gilbert of Killantringan (1^st of Miltonise) having caused to be rebuilt the family chapel (Barhill) where Presbyterian ministers preached to the country people.

John, of Killantringan, 5^th in descent from Gilbert, entailed his estates past his next of kin, the present chief, Thomas McMicking, of Miltonise, on a distant relation. His successor broke the entail, and sold Killantringan in 1840, the Grange estate remaining bound by it. The present Thomas McMicking, Esq., of Miltonise, is son of the late Gilbert McMicking, by his wife Jane Douglas (whom he married in 1785), and grandson of Thomas McMicking.

ARMS, A3, four fleurs-de-lis, the tops to the exterior of the shield, or (silver); and, overall, an escucheon, dovetailed, as a badge of chiefship.

CREST, a demi-savage bearing in his dexter hand an arrow, an wearing at his back, a quiver, full, ppr.

MOTTOES: "Res Non Verba"; and also "We Hae Dune" or "We have done".