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- Member of the Glasgow Canadian Society, on George Cannington, 16 July 1821. Signatures of James, Andrew and William. James Millar was married when he arrived.
MS-154 Scottish Immigrant Records 1815-1834
James Miller and wife, Scotland on George Cannington,from Greenock 14 Apr 1821 with the Glasgow Canadian Emigration Society, 16 July 1821, Dalhousie C6 L12W (8264?)
Index to the Return of Persons Located by the Military Settling Department dated 24 December 1822
James Miller, Dalhousie C6 L12W, 15 July 1821
Return of Settlers in the Lanark Settlement Bathurst District Upper Canada 6 Dec 1834 C. Rankin
Canada Archives Q385, 1 p3; MS154 Scottish Immigration 1815-1834
Dalhousie C6 L12 W, James Millar, 1821 is here but going to Plympton (Township in Lambton County near Sarnia). Flat rock and broken. Paid 44? 8 10
Lanark C5 L8 E vacant. James Miller has returned to Scotland. Land good for nothing, rocky.
Bunyan Cemetery, Cty Rd 14 & Brigden Sideroad, Sarnia Township C2 L7, Lambton Cty, ON
http://www.geneofun.on.ca/cems/ON/ONLAM11864
James Miller 1794-1879
Catherine Miller 1792-1872, wife of James
Janet Miller b. 18 Dec 1831, d. 18 Nov 1879
Stanley W. Miller 1892 - 1918
Grace J Alexander, wife of Stanley
1861 Census, Sarnia Township, (Lambton Cty) in Huron County, Microfilm #C1041
Plympton
Plympton is the most northern of the center tier of Lambton County townships and is bounded on the north by a portion of Bosanquet and on the north west by Lake Huron.
From a Lambton web site?
It is the second largest township in the county, having 76080 acres. The settlement of Plympton dates back from 1833 in which year a large number of immigrants located along the Egremont Road in the 5th and 6th ,Concessions. They came out from Europe under the patronage of Lord Egremont. There was also a settlement at Camlachie the same year. The land there was settled in 1833 by old country men and in 1835 and 36 a considerable number of Scotch settlers came to the southern part of the township from Lanark county. When the settlement was effected along the lake there was no way of communicating with Sarnia, then a straggling hamlet containing only one store, except by boats on the lake.
A History of Lambton Cty, Jean Turnbull Elford, Sarnia, 1967. (my summary)
In 1835, 27 year old Malcolm Cameron persuded Scottish settlers to follow him from Lanark and Perth, (Lanark Cty) when he bought the property that was to become downtown Sarnia. He provided land for their Presbyterian Church, employed them in his grist mill, took potash in exchange for goods at his store corner of Lochiel and Front St. The settlers cut square oak timbers he sold to Glasgow shipyards, manufactured staves he shipped to Jamaica for rum barrels, built and sailed vessels on the lakes. Through use of political influence he was responsible for the building of a road from London to Sarnia direct.
- (Research):James Miller (5 people) Dalhousie C6 L12, wife, son, 2 daughters. Glasgow Canadian Society. (C. Bennett)
Moved to Plympton in the mid 1830s. Bark George Canning, Potter (Master), Greenock, 14 April 1821 to Quebec, 2 June 1821, 489 settlers, to Rogerson, Hunter & Co. / in ballast - goes to the Miramichi to load (Lanark County Settlers) http://www.theshipslist.com/
Ships Lists 1816-1820, Canada MG9, D8-27, Vol. 1, Microfilm Reel #C-4651 transcription prepared by Christine Spencer
James Miller sailed on the Brig Dorothy in 1815, settled Burgess CR9 Lot A in 1816.
a note from Dad's collection suggests he married Margaret MacDonald
PRO CO 42/189/ ff 512/69
George Canning, Potter (Master), Greenock to Quebec, 14 April 1821
Cambuslang Society
John Miller (4 people)
William Gourley (5 peole)
Glasgow Canadain
James Miller (5 people)
William Miller (7 people)
Andrew Miller (1 person)
Glasgow Sr. Wrights
Andrew Blair (4 people)
PRO CO 42/189/ ff 512/69
Commerce of Greenock, Coverdale Master, 11 May 1821
North Albion Society
John Miller (8)
Rutherglen Union
James Miller (6 people)
On Ancestry, many trees list a Haldam Millar and she appears as a family member in the 1841 and other Census. No birth record 20 Jan 1822, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland could be found on ScotlandsPeople. It may be a register that has been destroyed or lost. I have included her based on the census returns.
Note in Robert Mason journal - James Miller died 3 Mar 1812. (father of John Miller 1806?)
Bathurst C1 L26 SW1/2, Military Settler Lot, 14 Jul 1819, original issue James Millar
Bathurst, Concession 1 Lot 25, 17 Apr 1819, 100 acres, fulfilled settlement requirements
Burgess, Concession 10 Lot 26W, 1819, from List of Settlers
Elmsley Concession 8 Lot 29 S, 17 Apr, 1819, 40 acres
Bathurst, Concession 5 L16NE, 9 Aug 1820,100 acres, fulfillment of settlement duties
Leeds, Concession 5 L14 SW, 9 Aug 1820, 100 acres, fulfillment of settlement duties
From Perth Militar Settlers: War of 1812 Veterans
prepared by Christine Spencer from
National Archives of Canada, MG9, D8-27, Vol. 1, Microfilm Reel #C-4651
Unknown Regiment
These men receiving military land grants were either not associated in the records with a specific regiment or the transcriber was unable to read the handwriting. Many of these no doubt served in the War of 1812, but others would have served in other theatres.
James Miller, 1817, Bathurst C5 L14NE (might be 4th Vetern's Battalion? or 4th GN? or BN?
1816 - 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards
The 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards was a British army cavalry regiment, officially formed in January 1686 as Shrewsbury's Regiment of Horse. Following a number of name changes, it became the 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards in 1804.
During the War of the Spanish Succession, the unit was commanded by William Cadogan, close aide to the Duke of Marlborough. It was engaged in many of Marlborough's battles and sieges, including Blenheim, Ramillies and Malplaquet; after the Peace of Utrecht in 1713, it resumed garrison duties in Ireland, where it spent most of the next 80 years.[7]
Le Marchant's charge at Salamanca, July 1812; 5th dragoons right foreground
Renamed Second Irish Horse in 1746, it then became 5th Regiment of Dragoon Guards in 1788.[2] On the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Warsin 1793, it was posted to Flanders where it fought at the April 1794 Battle of Beaumont.[6] The unit returned to Ireland and helped suppress the 1798 Irish Rebellion, including the battles of Arklow, Vinegar Hill and Ballinamuck.[5] In 1804, it was retitled 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Regiment of Dragoon Guards after Princess Charlotte, later simplified to 5th (Princess Charlotte of Wales's) Dragoon Guards.[2]
Posted to Spain in 1810, it was part of Le Marchant's brigade during the Peninsular campaign. The Battle of Salamanca in July 1812 is considered one of Wellington's greatest victories and Le Marchant's attack as the 'single most destructive charge made by a brigade of cavalry in the whole Napoleonic period.
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1794 - 1879 (~ 85 years)
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