I believe that two individuals are being conflated here: William McLelland and a brother named Nicholas. What is the evidence that the two of them are the same? I guess I might equally ask what the evidence is that William had a brother named Nicholas. My interest in this is that I am descended from that generation of McLellands thrice over. Through my great-great-grandfather Samuel Whitefield Stevenson, I am descended--as I understand it--from William "Little Gabriel" Stevenson and his wife Mary McLelland, daughter of William McLelland and Mary Ross. Through my great-great-grandmother Sarah Catherine "Katie" McLelland, I am descended again from William McLelland and Mary Ross through their daughter Rebecca and also from Nicholas McLelland and Sarah (maiden name uncertain), Nicholas being William's younger brother, through Nicholas' son William. This second William was married to the Rebecca I just mentioned, who was his first cousin.
