Andrew Mitchell was born in Edinburgh in 1737.
Reverend Andrew Mitchell of Beith in Ayrshire who was trained by the Reverend Alexander Moncrieff in the Divinity Hall at Abernethy in Perthshire.
Andrew Mitchell was appointed in 1793 as the Anti Burgher Minister at Beith and Alexander Moncrieff was one of four Seceders who broke away from the Church of Scotland and formed the Anti Burgher Church.
He married Janet Alice at Beith in 1766 and they had ten children. The youngest, Jean, married Thomas Millar in Glasgow in 1809.
Rev Andrew Mitchell died in Glasgow in 1812 and was buried at Cheapside Street Church.
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28.7.16
Janet Alice Millar
Janet Alice Millar was born in 1810 at Garscube Mills in Dunbarton, Scotland. Her father was a flour miller and her mother was the youngest daughter of an anti-burgher minister from Beith in Ayrshire. She was named after her maternal grandmother Janet Mitchell nee Alice or Ellis. It is interesting that this name has passed down female descendants without perhaps realising it was their ancestors' surname.
Janet Alice Millar married Robert Hart, a paper maker, in Glasgow in 1838. She had four daughters and five sons, her second daughter dying at 8 tears of age.
Two of her daughters married Steel brothers, Isabella going to Australia in 1871, not long before Robert Hart died. The two youngest sons went to India as tea planters but the youngest returned to Glasgow and lived with his mother. She died in 1881, five years after her husband. They are buried in the family plot at Craigton cemetery in Glasgow.
Janet Alice Millar married Robert Hart, a paper maker, in Glasgow in 1838. She had four daughters and five sons, her second daughter dying at 8 tears of age.
Two of her daughters married Steel brothers, Isabella going to Australia in 1871, not long before Robert Hart died. The two youngest sons went to India as tea planters but the youngest returned to Glasgow and lived with his mother. She died in 1881, five years after her husband. They are buried in the family plot at Craigton cemetery in Glasgow.
10.11.11
Isabella Nimmo Hart
Isabella Nimmo Hart was born in 1845 in Glasgow. Her parents, Robert Hart and Janet Alice Millar were dissenting members of the Church of Scotland so she and two siblings were not baptised until some years later. Isabella was the third of 7 children, having two sisters. Her elder sister Jane married John Steel in 1866 and it is possible that Isabella corresponded with his brother Thomas in Australia before they married in February 1871 in Glasgow.
Two of Isabella's younger brothers went to Bengal as tea planters so her move to Australia must have been an exciting prospect. She seems to have thrived on it, having a large family of 9 children, although she lost her first daughter at age 5 in 1880. Her older sister only had one son and the younger one adopted two children.
Unfortunately for Isabella, her husband died suddenly in 1893, at a time of economic crisis in Melbourne, and her youngest son being only 3 years old. She was the sole executor of the estate and a large proportion of the assets were unpaid bills from patients. Her eldest son, William, was studying medicine in Glasgow, having graduated BA from the University of Melbourne.
I imagine she was well supported at this time by Jane and John Steel in Glasgow and she in turn cared for their nephew John Steel jnr who died at the Steel holiday home at Portarlington in 1896 from TB. He had been managing the family company in Calcutta after his uncle Octavius died in 1893. Around this time, the third son, David, was sent there to learn the tea trade and he became a tea merchant in Melbourne, initially with his younger brother Octavius. Another son, Donald went to Glasgow to study medicine, then on to India, Western Australia and North Qld before he died suddenly in 1911. Tyke and Jack then went farming.
Her fourth son, Thomas, was a soldier and went to Gallipoli as one of the leaders, then on to France and England. During the Great War, she also had William serving in the British Navy and Jack in the army. Her younger daughter Alice had married in 1907 and lived in Scotland. Her second son Robert lived with her until he died in 1929. Isabella lived until her 90th year, dying in Preston in 1935.
Two of Isabella's younger brothers went to Bengal as tea planters so her move to Australia must have been an exciting prospect. She seems to have thrived on it, having a large family of 9 children, although she lost her first daughter at age 5 in 1880. Her older sister only had one son and the younger one adopted two children.
Unfortunately for Isabella, her husband died suddenly in 1893, at a time of economic crisis in Melbourne, and her youngest son being only 3 years old. She was the sole executor of the estate and a large proportion of the assets were unpaid bills from patients. Her eldest son, William, was studying medicine in Glasgow, having graduated BA from the University of Melbourne.
I imagine she was well supported at this time by Jane and John Steel in Glasgow and she in turn cared for their nephew John Steel jnr who died at the Steel holiday home at Portarlington in 1896 from TB. He had been managing the family company in Calcutta after his uncle Octavius died in 1893. Around this time, the third son, David, was sent there to learn the tea trade and he became a tea merchant in Melbourne, initially with his younger brother Octavius. Another son, Donald went to Glasgow to study medicine, then on to India, Western Australia and North Qld before he died suddenly in 1911. Tyke and Jack then went farming.
Her fourth son, Thomas, was a soldier and went to Gallipoli as one of the leaders, then on to France and England. During the Great War, she also had William serving in the British Navy and Jack in the army. Her younger daughter Alice had married in 1907 and lived in Scotland. Her second son Robert lived with her until he died in 1929. Isabella lived until her 90th year, dying in Preston in 1935.
16.2.09
Jean Mitchell
Jean Mitchell was born in April 1786 at Beith in Ayrshire. She was the youngest of perhaps seven children. Her father Andrew Mitchell was an anti-burgher minister in Beith. She married Thomas Millar in Glasgow in 1809. She had five daughters and two sons. She was called Jane on her daughter's death certificate in 1881.
Thomas Millar
Thomas Millar was born in 1783, the son of William Millar, a grain merchant, and Margaret Hart. He was a flour miller at Garscube Mills at New Kilpatrick near Glasgow when he married Jean Mitchell in 1809. They had five daughters and two sons. Thomas died in 1849.
Robert Hart
Robert Hart was born in 1809 at Leith in Scotland, a son of Thomas Hart, a grain merchant, and Janet Johnston Kirkwood.
At the time of his father's death in 1832, he was a paper manufacturer near Denny.
Pigot's Directory lists Robert Hart, paper maker of Glasgow at South Woodside Mill in 1837.
He was a papermaker at Crossbank in Glasgow when he married Janet Alice Millar, whose father was a flour miller, in 1838.
They had nine children; four daughters and five sons, three of whom, born 1844-1847 were not baptised until 1853. This may have been related to the split in the Presbyterian Church around this time. The Harts appear to have been keen followers of the Free Church. Robert was a papermaker living in Parkburn when they were baptised at Kilsyth in 1853. Their second child, Jessie, died in 1849, aged 8 years.
Robert, a retired ironfounder aged 66, was living at 4 Cecil Street, Paisley Road, Govan when he died in 1876.
His career appears to be an interesting example of the progress of the industrial revolution in machinery from milling to ship building.
At the time of his father's death in 1832, he was a paper manufacturer near Denny.
Pigot's Directory lists Robert Hart, paper maker of Glasgow at South Woodside Mill in 1837.
He was a papermaker at Crossbank in Glasgow when he married Janet Alice Millar, whose father was a flour miller, in 1838.
They had nine children; four daughters and five sons, three of whom, born 1844-1847 were not baptised until 1853. This may have been related to the split in the Presbyterian Church around this time. The Harts appear to have been keen followers of the Free Church. Robert was a papermaker living in Parkburn when they were baptised at Kilsyth in 1853. Their second child, Jessie, died in 1849, aged 8 years.
Robert, a retired ironfounder aged 66, was living at 4 Cecil Street, Paisley Road, Govan when he died in 1876.
His career appears to be an interesting example of the progress of the industrial revolution in machinery from milling to ship building.
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