| 2. | Robert Miller was born on 3 Dec 1784 in Dumbarton Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; was christened on 6 Dec 1784 in Dumbarton Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland (son of William Millar and Elizabeth Gilmour); and died. Other Events and Attributes:
- FamilySearch ID: LZDN-NBM
- Name: Robert Millar
- _UID: 2C10102716BD4C4CA0F77A4042E8754C1A29
- Occupation: 1800, Dumbarton Parish, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; Painter
- Residence: 1806, Cardross Parish, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
- Location: 1820, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Brock st., Block 2 North Side
- Land & Property: 9 Apr 1820, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Receipt #1930. Fee of Survey of Town Lot in Perth
- Land & Property: 18 Sep 1827, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; SW1/2 L23 C11 - 100 acres, sold to John Furzer Elliott
- Land & Property: 20 Nov 1830, Sherbrooke North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; E1/4 L13 C1 from John Elliott, Esq.
- Land & Property: 3 May 1832, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; #1312, York, Review the patent fee for the NE 1/2 of Lot no. 2 on north side of Brock St., granted Aug 1820
- Land & Property: 10 Sep 1832, Sherbrooke North Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; E1/4 L13 C1 - 50 acres, to Duncan McDougal
- Census: 1841, Bridgend, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; Scotland
- Occupation: 1841, Bridgend, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; Carter
- Land & Property: 11 Mar 1843, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; L11 C4 - 100 acres to James Gamble
- Land & Property: 1850 1851, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; re William Miller property C1 Lot 15
- Census: 1861, Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; Canada Agr. Schedule Con 3 Lot 7
- Census-Household Member: 1861, Cardross Parish, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; England, Wales & Scotland
Notes:
Little is known about Robert Miller other than he was born to William Miller and Elizabeth Gilmour in 1784.
Unless he accompanied his parents, as part of the group of seven who arrived in 1821, Robert did not independently qualify for assistance through one of the emigration societies. He would have been of an age to qualify for his own grant unless the plan was for him to assist William and Elizabeth who were in or approaching their sixties. If he was unmarried, this may have been the plan.
He does not appear in the 1820, 1822, 1834 or 1842 reports on the settlers in the Bathurst District. In the ?i?MS 482 Vol 1 Inspection Report Bathurst District Clergy Reserves 1828, ?/i? the report for Robert Miller, Dalhousie C1 L17, 200 acres, describes the soil as bad. Timbers - maple, hemlock, elm and basswood on the ridge, cedar and tamarack in swamp. Will purchase at 21? per acre. Nearest mill is eight miles. Is this 'Robert'? The location close to his parents suggests it might be.
He reappears, to obtain the crown patent on his parents property in Lanark Township 6 Mar 1851 and it is believed to be Robert, at the home of his brother Andrew Miller in Bathurst at the time of the 1852 census, identified as a widower, but he does not appear in the 1861 census. No burial site has been located.
The possibility of Robert being a military settler needs to be explored more fully. There is a possibility that he served in Ireland and or on the Continent. He may have followed the family to Canada after receiving a pension.
The possibility of Robert remaining in Scotland and possibly marrying there has been looked at, and a possible marriage to Agnes Kerr and resulting family identified, but more work will be required to prove or disprove this theory.
The possibility that Robert emigrated to another country is another possibility that has not yet been explored. South Africa, New Zealand and Australia would be good possibilities in addition to the United States.
(Research):?b??i?
?/b?Spouses? Maybe none!!!?/i?
Another possibility is Jean Young 28 Nov 1807
Agnes Kerr is floated as a possibility based on a ScotlandsPeople search of marriages listed in Old Parish Registers.?b??i?
?/b?MS 482 Vol 1 Inspection Report Bathurst District Clergy Reserves 1828?b??/i?
?/b?Dalhousie C1 L17 200 acres
Soil bad. Timbers - maple, hemlock, elm and basswood on the ridge, cedar and tamarack in swamp. Will purchase at 21? per acre. Nearest mill is eight miles.
?i?Residence 1852 Census ?/i?
Bathurst with brother Andrew Miller & Catherine Munro. Robert, age 66, b. Scotland, (1786) is listed as a widower. He came on the brig George Canning.
Other info for reference:
1841 Census locates a 'Robert' in Bathurst on C4 L11E. He arrived from England in 1814, Anglican, 1 born in England, 3 born in Canada.
a Robert Miller and Janet ....... married about 1830 and son Robert born in 1832, First Presbyterian Church, Perth.
note I have verified that it is NOT Robert Miller,1802, C1 L17 Bathurst Twp.
Birth:
Name:?tab?Robert Millar
Gender:?tab?Male
Christening Date:?tab?06 Dec 1784
Christening Place:?tab?DUMBARTON,DUNBARTON,SCOTLAND
Birth Date:?tab?03 Dec 1784
Birthplace:?tab?
Death Date:?tab?
Name Note:?tab?
Race:?tab?
Father's Name:?tab?William Millar
Father's Birthplace:?tab?
Father's Age:?tab?
Mother's Name:?tab?Elizabeth Gilmour
Mother's Birthplace:?tab?
Mother's Age:?tab?
Indexing Project (Batch) Number:?tab?C11496-5
System Origin:?tab?Scotland-ODM
GS Film number:?tab?1041985
Reference ID:?tab?
Citing this Record:
"Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XBK5-2H9 : 2 January 2015), William Millar in entry for Robert Millar, 03 Dec 1784; citing , reference , index based upon data collected by the Genealogical Society of Utah, Salt Lake City; FHL microfilm 1,041,985.
Christened:
OPR ScotlandsPeople
MILLAR
ROBERT
WILLIAM MILLAR/ELIZABETH GILMOUR FR628 (FR628)
0
06/12/1784
496/
30 7
Dumbarton
Information on?i? LDS microfilm PG 239 (Dumbarton 1784-1819)?/i?:
William Miller and Elizabeth Gilmour, son Robert, b. 3 Nov 1784?b??i?
Scotlands Select Births on Ancestry indicate 3 Dec 1784
?/b?Robert Millar
Scotland Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950
?/i?Name:?tab?Robert Millar
Gender:?tab?Male
Christening Date: 06 Dec 1784
Christening Place: DUMBARTON,DUNBARTON,SCOTLAND
Birth Date: 03 Dec 1784
Father's Name: William Millar
Mother's Name: Elizabeth Gilmour
FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LZDN-NBM
Land & Property:
#661, General Register Book C; Lanark South #27; 1831-1834; Instruments 661-1093; Film # C-27-77
Land & Property:
#844, Copy Book 165, Lanark North #26, North Sherbrooke Twp, Instruments Assorted #844 to 462, 1830-1847 on film C-26 64
Land & Property:
#1930 Receiver General's Office York, U.C. 3?sup?rd?/sup? May 1832 Robert Millar paid into this Office, the Fee of Survey on a Town Lot in Perth under regulation of 6 July 1804 pursuant to an order in Council of the 9 Apr 1820. Survey, 18 For the Receiver General B. Turguaud.
Land & Property:
#927 - Copy Book 165, Lanark North #26, North Sherbrooke Twp, Instruments Assorted #844 to 462, 1830-1847 on film C-26 64
Land & Property:
#218, General Register Book H; Lanark South #27; 1843-1845; Instruments 1-355; Film # C-27-79
Land & Property:
Notice
Robert Miller
Township of Bathurst
30 Dec 1850
Wm H Lee
Clk
Notice
Is hereby given that Robert Miller of the township of Lanark, in the county of Lanark and Province of Canada, yoeman, will claim before the Commissioners appointed to ascertain the Heirs, Devisees or Assignees of the original Nominees of the Crown to Lands not under Patent, at their Sittings at Toronto, in the month of January next, the West half of Lot Number Fifteen in the First Concession of the said Township of Lanark, in the Count and Province aforesaid, as the eldest son and heir at law of William Miller in his lifetime, of the Township, County and Province aforesaid, yeoman, deceased, who was the original Nominee of the Crown
Dated this eighteenth day of
September A.D. 1850
Signed: Robert Miller
?i?Robert Miller, 40-3443 RG 40, 1850
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?/i?I certify that the annexed notice was put up in a conspicuous place in the office of the Clerk of the Peace of the United Counties of Lanark and Renfrew on the eighteenth day of September last and proceeded to put up from that twice to this day and that a list of the claim put up in my office specify all the particulars of the claim in the annexed notice among other claims was put up in a conspicuous part of the Court House of the said United Counties and was publicly read and proclaimed in Open Court a the General Quarter Sessions holden for the said United Counties on the nineteenth day of November lasat by the Crier of the Court immediately after the delivery of the Charge to the Grand Jury.
Perth twenty-fourth day of
December 1850
WRG Berford
Clerk of the Peace
United Cos Lanark and N Renfrew.
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Province of Canada
County of Lanark
Robert Miller of the Township of Lanark, in the County of Lanark and Province of Canada, Yeoman, maketh oath and saith that Williiam Miller formerly of the Town of Dumbarton, in the Parish of Cardross, in the shire of Dunbarton in that part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, called Scotland, Farmer, the father of this deponent, emigrated from lthe said town of Dumbarton in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one, and came to Canada in the ship "George Cannon" in the same yeaar, and was immediately after his arrival located by the Military Settling Department upon or for the west half of Lot Number fifteen in the first concession of the said township of Lanark as one of the body of people who emigrated from Scotland during the same year and were called "The Lanark Settlers". This deponent further saith that upon his coming to Canada in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty nine he learned from his Brother Andrew and the remaining members of his father's family that his said father and his family resided upon the said land from the time of his location until some time in the year 1824 when his said father died and the widow (the stepmother of this deponent) and the rest of the family continued to reside thereon for upwards of twelve years after his deatah, bu which time a clearance of about fourty acres had been made and a dwelling house and barn built theron. This Deponent further saith that he is the eldest Son and Heir at Law of the said William Miller , that upon his, this deponent's coming to Canada, his claim to
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?/i?the said lands as such eldest son and heir at Law of the said William Miller was readily and cheerfully acknowledged by all the members and relatives of his said father's family, and deponent was permitted to enter upon and take possession of lsaid land without the slightest opposition or objection being made by any of them or by any person or persons whomsoever, and which possession deponent has all along retained and nonretains.
This deponent further saith that he is now in actual, peaceable and undisturbed possession of the said land, that his claim to the same is just and well founded to the best of his this deponent's knowledge and belief, and that he this deponent is not awasre of any adverse claim by or on the behalf of any person or persons whomsoever, nor has deponent ever heard of any person or persons having, or even pretending to have, any Claim whatever to said land save only that of his said father who died intestate and without leavinda any will deponent has ever heard of.
Swarn before me at the town of Perth in the County of Lanar, this thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord 1850.
Jno. Deacon
A Commissioner for taking Affidavits
in the Queen's Bench for the County of Lanark
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Province of Canada
County of Lanark
Andrew Miller of the township of Bathurst, in the County of Lanark and Province of Canada, yeoman maketh oath and saith that he has read the foregoing affidavit of Robert Miller and knows that the statements made therein are all true in substance and in fact, save only the statement as to the personal knowledge of the said Rovert Miller as to his being aware or hearing of any adverse claim to the land mentioned, which statement deponent neverthe less verily believes to be true. That he this deponent is the fourth son of the William Miller mentioned in said affidavit of Robert Miller - that deponent left scotland with his said father when he emigrated there from in 1821 as stated in said affidavit - that his said father was upon arrival in Canada located upon the lot mentioned in said affidavit, took possession of same until his death in 1824, that the said Robert Miller is the eldest son and heir at law of his said father and is a full brother of this deponent, this deponent further saith that the claim of the said robert Miller as eldest son and heir at law of the said William Miller to the land mentioned in his affidavit is just and well founded to the best of this deponent's knowledge and belief, and that deponent is not aware of any adverse claim by or on the behalf of any person or persons whomsoever. This deponent further saith that the said William Miller, his said father, died intestate and without making or leaving any will that deponent has ever heard of.
Sworn before me at the town of Perth
in the county of Lanar
this thirtieth day of October in the year of our Lord 1850
Jno. Deacon
Commissioner for taking affidavits
in the Queen's Bench for the County
of Lanark
Signed Andrew Miller
Province of Canada
County of Lanark
Robert Boyle of the township of Lanark, in the county of Lanark and province of Canada, yoeman, maketh oath and saith that he ahs read the above affidavit of Robert Miller and verily believes the whole of the statements made therein to be true in substancss and fact, that he this deponent was and is well acquanted with the family of the late William Miller the father of said Robert Miller, deponent having married a daughter of said William Miller, the father of said Robert Miller - deponent having married a daughter of said William Miller in the year 1825 - that deponent has never heard of the said William Miller's having made or left any will, and verily believes he died intestate, that the said Robert Miller is now, and has been since he came from Scotland, in peaceable and undisturbed possession of the land mentioned in his said affidavidt, and that his claim to the same as eldest son and heir at law of the said William Miller is just and well founded to the best of deponent's knowledge and belief and that deponent is not aware of any adverse claim thereto by or on the behalf of any person or persons whomsoever.
Robert Boyle
Sworn before me at Perth in the County of Lanark this
30th day of October A.D. 1850
Jno. Deacon
Commissioner for the taking Affidavits
in the Queen's Bench - County of Lanark
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No 2
Certificate for the Heir and Devises Commission
Crown Land Department
Toronto 3 Jany 1851
I certify that the west half of lot number fifteen in the first concession of the township of Lanark was located by the Military Settling Department in the name of William Miller the location has been confirmed by Order in Council of 20th Sept 1849 but no Disinpttion for Patent has ?
for the Comm C Lands
? Spraggue
To the Hon MS? Commis.
unde the Heir & Division ?
Census:
Thomas is on C3 L6, Andrew is on C2 L7, Peter is on C2 L8.
Census-Household Member:
Role: Household Member
Levenhaugh Street, Cardross, Burgh of Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland
Robert married Agnes Kerr on 13 Dec 1806 in Cardross Parish, Dumbarton, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Agnes (daughter of Robert Kerr and Margaret Caldwell) was born in 1786 in Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland; was christened on 13 Aug 1786 in Beith Parish, Ayrshire, Scotland; died between 1827 and 1841 in Bridgend, Cardross, Dunbartonshire, Scotland. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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1814 - Bef 1820 (5 years)
