This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Milner/Hurst Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/EgC.2ACE/10005 Message Board Post: Could My Milner Ancestors Have Come From Scotland? Please Reply. Seeking Ancestral connections in Scotland. Page 1318 of: Past and Present of the City of Springfield and Sangamon County, Illinois, by Joseph Wallace, M.A. Springfield Bar, The S.J. Clarke Publishing Co., Chicago, IL, 1904 stated: "James Milner, who follows farming and stock-raising on section 22 Ball Township, was born in Wayne County, Illinois, January 27, 1846. The family is of Scotch descent, and the grandfather removed at an early day from Virginia to Kentucky. Subsequently, he became a resident of Illinois, settleing in 1835 in Wayne County, where his remaing days were passed."