Alexander Millar

1766 - 1828  (62 years)

• Name	Alexander Millar
  Born	1766	of, Scotland
  Gender	Male
  Residence	1790	Dundee, Forfar, Scotland   [1]
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-12296
  Died	1828	Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States
  Buried	Lewiston Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Niagara, Ontario
  Person ID	I12296	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Janet Gourlay,   b. 1769,   d. 1822, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States  (Age 53 years)
  Married	22 Mar 1790	Dundee, Forfar, Scotland   [1]
  Children	1. John Millar,   b. CALC 3 Jan 1791, Dundee, Forfar, Scotland ,   d. 3 Apr 1871, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 80 years)   2. Willam Gourlay Millar,   b. CALC 21 Apr 1792, , Scotland ,   d. 21 Feb 1880, New Dundee, Wilmot Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age ~ 87 years)   3. David Millar,   b. CALC 20 Nov 1796, , Dundee, Scotland ,   d. 29 Dec 1866, near New Dundee, Ontario  (Age ~ 70 years)   4. Janet Millar,   b. 20 May 1803, Dundee, , Angus, Scotland ,   d. 24 Jul 1885, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 82 years)   5. Lillias "Lily" Millar,   b. 3 Nov 1804, Dundee, , Angus, Scotland ,   d. 31 Jan 1890, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States  (Age 85 years)   6. Frederick Gourlay Millar,   b. 6 Apr 1810, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States ,   d. 6 Sep 1887, Burford, Burford Twp., Brant Co., Ontario  (Age 77 years)   7. Elizabeth Millar,   b. 26 Jul 1812, Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States ,   d. 7 Aug 1896, Waterloo City, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 84 years)
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F17030	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  TRANSCRIPTION FROM THE HANDWRITING OF WILLIAM G. MILLAR The ship's name in which we crossed the ocean was the Mentor of New Bedford, 250 tons Burden. We learnt through the papers that she was lost on the coast of America some years afterwards. We left Dundee in Scotland on the fourth day of June 1804 and did not reach New York in the United States until the fourth of August. We staid in that City about three weeks and then removed to Albany . In coming over to America Our Ship encountered a severe storm off the banks of Newfoundland. She was laid to for many hours under the three sails seen on the ship below. Our Father [Captain Alexander Millar] who had been many years at sea declared he had never seen the waves run higher. They seemed to me to to reach an altitude as high as top of the main mast. We shipped a sea that rose like a house. It swept decks of everything on them. Our Father saved himself by running his arm down to his shoulder into one of the holes in the windlass. The Captain told the owners of the ship at New York that, but for the assistance of our Father, they would never have seen their ship again. We landed in New York from Dundee in Scotland on the 4 of August 1804, where we staid three weeks and then removed up to Albany, and remained there nine months, and during that time our Father purchased land on the Niagara River, and to which place we removed in the spring of 1805, and where we continued to reside until we Came to Canada, about the Year 1824. Our brothers, John & David, had preceded us to Canada to Waterloo township, and Commenced to keep a store at what was called Crofts. After a time we joined them there and I assisted in the business for nearly three Years. About that time David and myself left Crofts and went to New York City in order to purchase some goods, and which we did-- and again returned to Canada, and made a beginning at Stoney Creek. But not likely to succeed there, we returned to Waterloo again & commenced the second time near Abram Erb's mill. After a time we removed to Green Bush and carried on our business for nearly three Years there, in a rented house. Soon after this we purchased a lot in Berlin as it is now Called, and we built the first frame house there. W. G. M

  
  

• Sources

  [S2180] Scotland - Old Parochial Register Extract Form. Dundee Parish, Forfar, Contracted Parties Alex' Millar Mercht. and Janet Gourlay daughter of Willm. Gourlay both in this parish married 22 Mar 1790

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 1766 - of, Scotland Residence - 1790 - Dundee, Forfar, Scotland Married - 22 Mar 1790 - Dundee, Forfar, Scotland Died - 1828 - Lewiston, Niagara, New York, United States Buried - - Lewiston Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Niagara-on-the-Lake, Niagara, Ontario  = Link to Google Earth