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craigmilne@rogers.comDescendants of Robert Milne
Generation 1
1. ROBERT1 MILNE . He married ANN SHAW.
Robert Milne and Ann Shaw had the following child:
2. i. JOHN2 MILNE was born in 1766. He married JEAN MITCHELL in 1787.
Generation 22. JOHN2 MILNE (Robert1) was born in 1766. He married JEAN MITCHELL in 1787.
Notes for John Milne:
Note: The following notes were taken verbatim from: The Milne Family: 300 Years of Ancestral History, by Kendall Burtch, Edited by: Barb Moore, 2007.
"To form this essay in a chronological order - which is the most appropriate route - it will be commenced with John Milne and Jean Mitchell. Unfortunately, information on the earlier Milne’s has not been able to be recovered. All that is known to place them at the
beginning of the Milne ancestry is that John Milne was born in 1766. He married Jean Mitchell in January of 1787, and they had six children: Barbara, Male, William, Margaret, John, and James. The family line discussed and researched here begins with John II, son of
John I and Jean Milne. John Milne II was their fifth child, born 3 January 1787 in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1808 he married Margaret Anderson, also a native of Aberdeen. Altogether they had seven children: Helen, Margaret, Fairly, John III, Christian, David, and Alexander.
All of their children were born in Scotland, and later immigrated with their parents to Canada. In a published work by the Howick Historical Society, THE LINES OF HOWICK, information states that “in 1836, they sailed for America”. It is unknown if the entire family
immigrated, but it has been stated that both John Milne II, his wife Margaret Anderson and John Milne III with his new wife Mary Moir made the trip and arrived in Elora, Ontario."
John Milne and Jean Mitchell had the following child:
3. i. JOHN3 MILNE was born on 03 Jan 1787 in Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Footie Farm). He died on 07 Oct 1867 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. He married MARGARET ANDERSON in 1808. She was born about 1785 in Scotland. She died after 1867 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada ((?)).
Generation 3
3. JOHN3 MILNE (John2, Robert1) was born on 03 Jan 1787 in Kincardine O'Neil, Aberdeenshire, Scotland (Footie Farm). He died on 07 Oct 1867 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. He married MARGARET ANDERSON in 1808. She was born about 1785 in Scotland. She died after 1867 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada ((?)).
Notes for John Milne: https://tommccabe.relatedfamilies.com/individual.php?pid=I0196&ged=tfmccabesMar2010.GED&tab =5
Note: John's will was recorded in Wellington County Probate Book E,, pp 415-416. (FHL film 0555617.) John left an estate worth $1900. His executors were his son John and his son in Law Robert Gerrie.
The will was dated 10 Feb 1863 and the probate dated 12 Oct 1867. Margaret Anderson Milne, his wife, was listed as a widow (evidently still alive) and Fairly, his son, was listed as already being dead.
The copy of the will is difficult to read but it is clear that John had two more children that were previously not known to me. One whose name was perhaps Ellen and the other a daughter named Christiana Milne Land.
Note: The following notes were taken verbatim from: The Milne Family: 300 Years of Ancestral History, by Kendall Burtch, Edited by: Barb Moore, 2007."To form this essay in a chronological order - which is the most appropriate route - it will be commenced with John Milne and Jean Mitchell. Unfortunately, information on the earlier Milne’s has not been able to be recovered. All that is known to place them at the
beginning of the Milne ancestry is that John Milne was born in 1766. He married Jean Mitchell in January of 1787, and they had six children: Barbara, Male, William, Margaret, John, and James. The family line discussed and researched here begins with John II, son of
John I and Jean Milne. John Milne II was their fifth child, born 3 January 1787 in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1808 he married Margaret Anderson, also a native of Aberdeen. Altogether they had seven children: Helen, Margaret, Fairly, John III, Christian, David, and Alexander.
All of their children were born in Scotland, and later immigrated with their parents to Canada. In a published work by the Howick Historical Society, THE LINES OF HOWICK, information states that “in 1836, they sailed for America”. It is unknown if the entire family
immigrated, but it has been stated that both John Milne II, his wife Margaret Anderson and John Milne III with his new wife Mary Moir made the trip and arrived in Elora, Ontario."
A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation - Volume 1 Donald Whyte. The Ontario Genealogical Society, Toronto, 1986.
#9660, p. 337
MILNE, John. From ABD. To QUE. ca 1846; stld Elora, Nichol Twp., Wellington Co, ONT. m Margaret Anderson. Dau Christian. DC Nov 1981.John Milne and Margaret Anderson had the following child:
4. i. CHRISTIAN4 MILNE was born on 12 Oct 1815 in Drumblade, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She died in 1882 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. She married on 06 Apr 1858 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada (Wellington Marriage Registers, 1858-1859, volume 1, page 12).
Generation 4
4. CHRISTIAN4 MILNE (John3, John2, Robert1) was born on 12 Oct 1815 in Drumblade, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She died in 1882 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. She married on 06 Apr 1858 in Elora, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada (Wellington Marriage Registers, 1858-1859, volume 1, page 12).
Notes for Christian Milne:
Note: The following notes were taken verbatim from: The Milne Family: 300 Years of Ancestral History, by Kendall Burtch, Edited by: Barb Moore, 2007.
"To form this essay in a chronological order - which is the most appropriate route - it will be commenced with John Milne and Jean Mitchell. Unfortunately, information on the earlier Milne’s has not been able to be recovered. All that is known to place them at the
beginning of the Milne ancestry is that John Milne was born in 1766. He married Jean Mitchell in January of 1787, and they had six children: Barbara, Male, William, Margaret, John, and James. The family line discussed and researched here begins with John II, son of
John I and Jean Milne. John Milne II was their fifth child, born 3 January 1787 in Aberdeen, Scotland. In 1808 he married Margaret Anderson, also a native of Aberdeen. Altogether they had seven children: Helen, Margaret, Fairly, John III, Christian, David, and Alexander.
All of their children were born in Scotland, and later immigrated with their parents to Canada. In a published work by the Howick Historical Society, THE LINES OF HOWICK, information states that “in 1836, they sailed for America”. It is unknown if the entire family
immigrated, but it has been stated that both John Milne II, his wife Margaret Anderson and John Milne III with his new wife Mary Moir made the trip and arrived in Elora, Ontario."
Note: I'm not sure who Christian Milne in the following entry was - Farily's sister Christian was married in 1858 to Mr. Land. This could have been an earlier marriage
In the Ontario archives of marriages in Wellington Co: (from the Fergus Presbyterian church.) Wellington County - St. Andrew's Church, Fergus Marriage Register 1837-1845
Marriage Register
The Kirk Session of St. Andrew’s Church
Fergus, Nichol twp, U. C.
One Thousand Eight Hundred And Thirty Seven
Marriage RegisterNo. 26 April 17, 1840 James Mennie, of the Township of Warwich, District, & Prov of U. C. Mennie, Jas. Bachelor, and Christian Milne, of the Township of Nichol, County of Halton, District of Gore & Prov. aforesaid, Spinster, having been publicly proclaimed by Banns in order to Marriage - The said parties James Mennie & Christian Milne were legally married in presence of James Cruickshank and Farly Milne, both of Nichol aforesaid, This Seventeenth Day of April, One Thousand, Eight Hundred and Forty years, by me A. Gardiner, Minr.
From ancestry.com, Ontario marriages:
Name: Christiana Milne
Birth Place: Scotland
Age: 21 ?(sic)?
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1837 ?(sic)?
Father Name: John Milne
Mother Name: Margaret Anderson
Spouse Name: Henry Land
Spouse's Age: 45
Spouse Estimated Birth Year: abt 1813
Spouse Birth Place: Ireland
Spouse Residence: Elora
Spouse Father Name: Thomas Land
Spouse Mother Name: Grace Row
Marriage Date: 6 Apr 1858
Marriage County: Wellington
Family History Library Microfilm: 1030067From the book, "Elora - the early history of Elora and Vicinity" by John Connon, Joseph Tytler from Kincardine O'Neil sailed from Aberdeen in 1836 on the ship "Universe" to New York, travelling via the Hudson River and Erie Canadl to Oswego, and then by schooner to Hamilton, arriving in Elora on June 20, 1836.
Also from Connon:
"Having decided to come to Canada, Mr. [William] Gerrie, senior, arranged with a ship captain in Aberdeen for a passage. Unon further inquiry, he found that the vessel was not going to sail as soon as he expected, so gave up his place on that ship, and took passage on another, which was to sail a week sooner. He was to learn that the one who starts first does not always make the best speed. Their ship, an old whaler, sailed from Aberdeen on a Saturday about the 11th. of June 1836, and that day ten weeks they saw America. Two weeks later they arrived in Hamiton. The next day, being the Sabbath, they atended Church, and, to their great surprise, the service was conducted by one they had left behind in their native parish, and who had sailed on the ship which Mr. Gerrie had thought too slow, - the Rev. Alexander Gardiner - afterwards pastor of St. Andrews Church, in Fergus."
Christian Milne had the following child:
5. i. ALEXANDER GARDINER5 MILNE was born on 19 Jan 1837 in Elora, Nichol Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. He died on 29 Jan 1887 in Trout Creek,
Ontario, Canada (Erisipelas). He married ANNE MILNE on 19 Feb 1858 in Elora, Nichol Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of James Milne and Anne Mann. She was born on 01 Feb 1835 in Johnsleys, Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She died between 1876-1881 in Ontario, Canada.
Generation 5
5. ALEXANDER GARDINER5 MILNE (Christian4, John3, John2, Robert1) was born on 19 Jan 1837 in Elora, Nichol Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. He died on 29 Jan 1887 in Trout Creek, Ontario, Canada (Erisipelas). He married ANNE MILNE on 19 Feb 1858 in Elora, Nichol Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada, daughter of James Milne and Anne Mann. She was born on 01 Feb 1835 in Johnsleys, Insch, Aberdeenshire, Scotland. She died between 1876-1881 in Ontario, Canada.
Notes for Alexander Gardiner Milne:
There is no record of a marriage between George Milne and Christiana but family stories say George was the father of Alexander Gardiner Milne.
Alexander Gardiner formed a lumber mill named Milne & Sons which produced wooden shingles.
St. Andrew's Fergus Baptism & Marriage Records 1837-1868:
Pg 2 Christian Milne & John Milne--son Alexander Gardiner Milne
Fairly Milne & Isabel Scott--son John
1851 Census shows Christine and James Mennie with "Alexander Menne" (Automated Genealogy transcribes family name as "Mancy" instead of Mennie.
1881 Census shows 2 children age 5, and a "Margaret Milne" ("English") aged 28. Was this from the second marriage? [Margaret Marshall Gilroy]
Death Notes:
MILNE, Alexander J, m, 29 Jan 1887, 51 years, Elora, cause - erisipelas 1 week, infm - E.A. Bosworth, Chapman Twp (Parry Sound Dist) 011236-87Alexander Gardiner Milne and Anne Milne had the following child:
6. i. JAMES GARNER6 MILNE was born on 17 Mar 1862 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada (Howick, Grey County,). He died in 1943 in Hazenmore, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married on 15 Jan 1908 in Muskoka District, Ontario, Canada.
Generation 6
6. JAMES GARNER6 MILNE (Alexander Gardiner5, Christian4, John3, John2, Robert1) was born on 17 Mar 1862 in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada (Howick, Grey County,). He died in 1943 in Hazenmore, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married on 15 Jan 1908 in Muskoka District, Ontario, Canada.
Notes for James Garner Milne: Death Notes:
As recounted by James Milne, November 27, 2012
James Garner Milne had the following child:
7. i. JAMES GARNER7 MILNE was born on 28 Apr 1910 in Zealandia, Saskatchewan, Canada. He died on 06 Oct 1973 in Laflèche, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married on 24 Dec 1935 in Hazenmore, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Generation 7
7. JAMES GARNER7 MILNE (James Garner6, Alexander Gardiner5, Christian4, John3, John2, Robert1) was born on 28 Apr 1910 in Zealandia, Saskatchewan, Canada. He died on 06 Oct 1973 in
Laflèche, Saskatchewan, Canada. He married on 24 Dec 1935 in Hazenmore, Saskatchewan, Canada.
