How might I descend from members of the Wauchope aristocracy?
The younger sons of the laird might well marry tenants or become tenants of the father s estates. In later years younger children of such tenants could marry more humble members of the community. The original headstone of James Walkup (d. 1798) of the Carolinas has a shield with a wheat garb on it, which would lead one to believe that the Samuel and Nancy Wauchope line of the USA is indeed of the Niddrie Wauchopes. Recent Y-DNA test results do not confirm this relationship via the male line.
