While I take breaks, I persist in my hunt for Scottish MILLAGANs who settled in north Bucks, alongside quite a lot of other expat drapers, lacemen and chapmen, c1680-1720. Recently I found a fascinating snippet in Records of Bucks concerning Ann MILLAGAN (nee BARRETT), widow of David, linen draper of Newton Longville, and it raised a question I hope people here can answer. Rev Cole of Bletchley recorded in his diary: "1766. Mrs. Meligan buried at Newton on 20 Nov. She died in Clerkenwell Workhouse and was brought down to be buried by her first husband. Her second husband is a baronet by the name of Yeomans as Mr. Cartwright assures me, but using her ill and having no estate she would never go by his name. I have heard Mr. Thomas Willis and others say that when she kept a good shop in this town, his mother Mr. Browne Willis' wife, used to pawn her clothes to her and borrow money of her at an exhorbitant use. She was a tall strapping woman and several times within this six or seven years used to walk on foot from London to Bletchley in a day. She was between 80 and 90 at her death." Cited in Records of Bucks Vol 11 pt1 1919 W Bradbrook - Newton Longville Parish Books p124 My question is this: Would Mrs. Browne WILLIS really have had to pawn her clothes like this? Was the Dragon of Whaddon in such a parlous state? It seems unlikely... I would welcome any enlightenment. Celia Renshaw in Chesterfield UK