Rev. Andrew Mitchell

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.

Janet Alice

It is interesting to find that the name Alice which appears among members of the Hart family and descendants was a surname.
It seems that she was born in 1743. Her father was Mr Ellis of Blairengone in Perthshire.
She married Rev. Andrew Mitchell, anti-burgher minister at Beith in Ayrshire in 1766, and had seven sons and three daughters, the youngest being our ancestor.

Edinburgh Annual Register 1822 Vol 15 page 456 ed. Sir Walter Scott
March 22 - at Newtonhill, Mrs Janet Alice, relict of the Rev. Andrew Mitchell, minister of the gospel, Beith, in the 80th year of her age.

The United Secession Magazine April 1844 No IV Vol 1 p 161
Memoir of the Rev. John Mitchell DD born 1768 - second son of Janet Alice, daughter of Mr Ellis of Blairengone in Perthshire

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.