My Miller and Mather ancestors, their friends, neighbours and associates.
1. | James McLaren was born on 15 Aug 1801 in New or East Kilpatrick, Dunbartonshire, Scotland; died on 7 Mar 1846 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Findagrave Family/Spouse: Margaret McLaren. Margaret (daughter of Peter McLaren and Janet Headrick) was born on 20 Oct 1806 in Breadalbane, Perthshire, Scotland; died on 31 Dec 1885 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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2. | John McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Census-Household Member: Family/Spouse: Agnes May. Agnes (daughter of May) was born about 1838 in Scotland; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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3. | Sen. Peter McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: McLAREN, Hon. Senator Peter ? Retired lumberman, Perth, Ont.; owner of 100,000 acres of valuable timber lands in Virginia, upon which are also valuable ore mines. Born in Lanark, Ontario, Sept. 22, 1831, son of the late James McLaren formerly of Perth, Scotland, and the late Margaret McLaren, daughter of the late Peter McLaren, of Lochiels Regiment, which engaged in quelling the Irish Rebellion, 1815. Educated: Public Schools. Began to learn the lumber business, 1844, gaining a thorough knowledge of hauling timber, rafting and milling; a partner, Gillies & McLaren, Carlton Place, 1855, which firm bought out the large Gilmour business, consisting of about three hundred square miles of timber on the Mississippi River, Ont., as well as working the Madawaska limits; became Sole Proprietor, 1890; the firm manufactured all kinds of sawn lumber and square timber, the former being for Canadian and United States markets, and the latter for European trade. Summoned to the Senate, 1890. Married Sophia Lees, daughter of the late William Lees, Lanark, Ont., and Granddaughter of the late Col. Playfair, of the old Canadian Parliament, Nov. 22, 1867; has two sons and three daughters. Conservative; Presbyterian. Residence: "Nevis Cottage," Perth, Ont. Peter married Sophia Elizabeth Lees on 22 Nov 1867. Sophia (daughter of William Lees and Mary Playfair) was born on 7 Nov 1845; died on 29 May 1923 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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4. | James McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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5. | Findley McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: A lumber man, he worked for his brother Senator Peter McLaren for many years. When the Upper Mississippi lumber limits passed to the Canada Lumber Company he moved to Perth and superintended the farm of his brother Peter. Family/Spouse: Annie Maria Gear. Annie was born on 13 Jul 1861 in England; died on 25 Dec 1935 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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6. | David McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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7. | William McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: FindaGrave Memorial ID: William married Janie Elizabeth Stevenson on 3 Sep 1877 in Clarendon Twp, North Frontenac County, Ontario, Canada. Janie was born on 5 Apr 1860 in Ireland; died on 14 Mar 1926 in Spokane, Spokane County, Washington, United States; was buried in Normal Hill Cemetery, Lewiston, Nez Perce County, Idaho, United States. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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8. | Jannet McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Census-Household Member: Jannet married John or James Bowes on 7 Oct 1858 in St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Perth, Ontario, Canada. John (son of James Bowes and Margaret Lawson) was born about 1835 in Bathurst Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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9. | Margaret McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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10. | James McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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11. | Daniel McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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12. | John McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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13. | William McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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14. | Peter McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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15. | Finlay McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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16. | Fredrick McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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17. | Allen McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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18. | Mennie McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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19. | Margaret Elsie McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Margaret married Francis William Hall about 1803. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
20. | Mary Isobel McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Mary married Charles Lewis Beurid about 1897. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
21. | Annie Kathleen McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Daughter of Senator Peter McLaren. Kathleen was an invalid and cared for by a nurse throughout her life. |
22. | James Lyon Playfair McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: FindaGrave Memorial ID: James married Isabel Frances Geddes about 1906. Isabel (daughter of Charles Gamble Geddes and Selena F. Sweetland) was born about Sep 1882 in Saskatchewan, Canada; died about 1971; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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23. | William Lees McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: William was the second son of Peter McLaren and Sophia Elizabeth Lees. He received his early education at Trinity College, Port Hope, Ontario. From there he traveled to Edinburgh, Scotland with his brother James to be educated at a boy's secondary school. Upon his return to Perth as a young man, William became the owner and operator of a mica mine located at the northwest end of Otty Lake, in Burgess township. This mine was widely known as simply "McLaren's Mine," and was the basis of operations for William and eventually, his wife Anna Gemmill. At the peak of operations at the mine, whose mica was used extensively for insulation of electrical motors, generators and home appliances, fifty men were employed, all of whom boarded and ate at the mine. William married Anna Lees Gemmell about 1910. Anna (daughter of Lawrence James Gemmell and Elizabeth Margaret Kellock) was born on 6 Jun 1884 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died about 1975 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
24. | James Stewart McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: James never married. He worked for his uncle, Senator Peter McLaren, at Brockville and MacLeod, Alberta in lumbering. After returning from the west he was employed as a shipper at Perth Shoe Company. |
25. | William Burden McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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26. | Margaret I. McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: Census-Household Member: Family/Spouse: Ray Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
27. | Edith I. McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: FindaGrave Memorial ID: Family/Spouse: Benjamin Morris. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
28. | James Bowes ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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29. | Margaret "Maggie" Bowes ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: (Medical):Deep vein thromboisis - complication - gangarene Margaret married "Duncan" McDonald McLaren on 24 Jul 1882 in Lanark Village, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. "Duncan" (son of Little Peter McLaren and Mary McDonald) was born on 12 Oct 1849 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 19 Jan 1894 in Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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30. | Janet "Jane" Bowes ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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31. | John Bowes ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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32. | William Bowes ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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33. | Sophia Victoria Bowes ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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34. | Peter Gay McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: FindaGrave Memorial ID: Family/Spouse: Dorothy Jane Hicks. Dorothy was born about 1907; died about 1999; was buried in Elmwood Cemetery, Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart] |
35. | Mary McDonald McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
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36. | John Peter McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: (Research):Myrvin Duncan McLaren, son of Duncan McDonald McLaren and Margaret Bowes, was born July 28, 1890. Myrvin's mother died shortly after he was born and his father died in 1894. When his father died Myrvin and his older brother John Peter were place under the guardianship of their uncle John McLaren in Drummond Township. Myrvin married Maggie Eda Robertson on April 25, 1917 John married Louisa Bell Mallory in 1912. Louisa (daughter of James "Warren" Mallory and Ruth "Augusta" Howard) was born on 15 Feb 1887 in Yonge & Escott Twp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada; died on 10 Nov 1971 in Surrey, Greater Vancouver Regional District, British Columbia, Canada; was buried in Nelson Memorial Park, Nelson, Central Kootenay Regional District, British Columbia, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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37. | Mervin "Myrvin" Duncan McLaren ![]() Other Events and Attributes:
Notes: FindaGrave Memorial ID: Mervin married Eva Margaret "Maggie" Robertson on 25 Apr 1917 in Drummond Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. Eva (daughter of William Robertson and Agnes McEwen Baird) was born on 5 Dec 1888 in Middleville, Lanark Twp, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; died on 1 Apr 1958 in Perth, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada; was buried in Lanark Village Cemetery, Lanark, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
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