in Australia
Muirton then Mylnefield
The earliest member of the Mylnefield Mylne family who can be identified with certainty is Alexander Mylne who died in 1651 and was a baillie of Dundee. In 1649 Alexander's son Alexander was appointed by the council of the Burgh of Dundee to be minister in the parish of Longforgan, about ten kilometres to the west of Dundee. A few years later, this Alexander bought two estates in his parish, called Muirton and Pilmore, perhaps with money inherited from his father. Although Pilmore was the more valuable of his two estates (valued at an annual rental of £316, as against £180 for Muirton), Alexander was styled "of Muirton". Perhaps he bought Muirton first, or perhaps there was already a mansion house on Muirton, making it the logical site for what we in Australia might call the homestead. There has never been a mansion house on Pilmore.
Alexander the minister, the first Mylne of Muirton, died in 1665 and his son Alexander – the second Mylne of Muirton – inherited his estates. This Alexander died without issue in 1670 and the two estates passed to his brother Thomas, the third Mylne of Muirton. Thomas was styled "of Muirton" for some eighteen years but in 1688 he acquired “Kingudie, nunc et omni tempore futuro nuncupand.. Milnefield” (Kingoodie, now and for ever to be called Mylnefield). Thomas apparently intended that this new name would apply not only to Kingoodie, but to his landholdings as a whole, as from this time onwards, Thomas is referred to as Thomas Mylne of Mylnefield.
Unlike the names Pilmore and Muirton, which were names of identifiable parcels of land, Mylnefield was the name applied to the agglomeration of the estates held by the eponymous laird. Mylnefield included Muirton, Pilmore, Kingoodie and a number of other smaller parcels of land in the parish of Longforgan and nearby parishes. But unlike Pilmore and Kingoodie, which can still be found on maps today (as the two farms of East and West Pilmore, and the village and former quary of Kingoodie respectively), the name Muirton has disappeared completeley. Thomas had declared his intention that Kingoodie would be known in the future as Mylnefield. In fact what happened is that most of what was at one time called Muirton is now known as Mylnefield.
Mylnefield passed from father to son for a total of six generations: Thomas (first), James (second), Thomas (third), James (fourth), Thomas (fifth) and James, the sixth and last Mylne of Mylnefield, Scotland. In 1838 James sold Mylnefieldd and in 1840, in partnership with his brother John, James became the first Mylne of Eatonswill, New South Wales. Australia.
Read more at ...
Muirton then Mylnefield
Thomas A. Mylne, 2016