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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 9555190, member: 2844&quot;]From what I&#039;ve seen of that forum you&#039;re right.</p><p><br /></p><p>The poster calls himself MacMillan of Rathdown. Rathdown is in Ireland, of course. The poster lives in Virginia.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>I just checked, could only find a MacMillan, Baron of Rathdown, who was from Virginia, but died in 2019. The US way of writing a date is always a bit of a riddle to me, but it seems this could be the poster.</p><p><br /></p><p>When I looked into the Barons of Rathdown(e) it turned out that the title has been in the Chetwynd family since 1717. Before the Chetwynds the title belonged to the Berkeley family:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Chetwynd" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Chetwynd" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Chetwynd</a></p><p><a href="https://rathdown.wicklowheritage.org/new-contributions/baron-berkeley-of-rathdoune" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rathdown.wicklowheritage.org/new-contributions/baron-berkeley-of-rathdoune" rel="nofollow">https://rathdown.wicklowheritage.org/new-contributions/baron-berkeley-of-rathdoune</a></p><p><br /></p><p>So I don&#039;t understand how a MacMillan can be Baron of Rathdown and live in Virginia.</p><p>With this question mark, and no Scottish connection, at least not for a very long time, I wouldn&#039;t consider his personal opinion definitive.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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