My mysterious great grandad - Hugh MILLAR

[daval57]

SP can be expensive but also very useful. 
I reckon that to be able to get hold of an entry for £1 isn't that dear - it's the searching that costs.
However, if used in conjunction with the free sites available such as IGI etc, and used properly, it can be quite effective.

Glad you seem to have found the correct one. 
Pity there is little info on it.  Normally there is a lot more.  She obviously didn't want to give her address away when registering the child. 
 

[Elaine48]

I'd like to compare notes with you Re: Hugh Millar if you haven't found any more info than your previous posts. I have a Hugh Millar born Scotland 1861 and living at 11 Duchess St, Whitely Northumberland in 1901. Seems a coincidence they should both be living at the same address at the same time. Please PM me.

Thanks
Elaine

[micksharp]

Hi Elaine

There is a Duchess Street in Whitley Bay. It's still there. The Duchess Street where my great granda Hugh Millar lived was in Shiremoor, then a small pit village about 4 miles inland from Whitley Bay. He was born in St Ninian's, Stirling, in 1882.

Do you want a photo of 11 Duchess Street, Whitley Bay as it is today? I live in Whitley and could pop around.

Thanks

Mick

[silvery]

Looks like there may have been two one Hugh Millar and one Hugh Miller  both b Scotland. 

1901  Duchers Street, Whitley, Tynemouth   RG13/4805/89/20

Hugh Miller 1863 b Scotland, joiner and builder
Selina   b 1867  Tynemouth
Elizabeth J  b 1887   Whitley
Sydney C  b 1898  Cullercoats

He is about in 1891 also, and living with Hugh and Selina is sister in law Emily Colwell 1870

The other one Hugh Millar b 1882/83 Bannockburn, is a coal hewer  with wife Hannah b 1885 Hexam,  John David b 1904 Chirton N Shields, Ellen b 1907  Shiremoore, and James Middleton 1910 Shiremoore all at Hotspur Place, Shiremoore.
Married Hannah Middleton 1903  Tynemouth.

[micksharp]

That's right, Elaine. Ellen was my gran.

Mick

[silvery]

In 1901 there is a Hugh Millar, 18 b 1883 underground collier born Bannockburn lodging in Ballingrey, Fife, with Thomas Liddle 24 and wife Jane 21.   
Only one coming up with Bannockburn as birthplace. 

[micksharp]

Yes, that's my great granddad.

His father David Millar - a weaver, if I remember correctly -  and mother Helen/Ellen Miller moved to Glasgow and then Edinburgh at the end of the nineteenth century. Ellen died quite young and David remarried a Janet Duthie. Hugh had a brother Alexander. By way of Fife, Hugh ended up in Shiremoor, Northumberland, to work in the pits there. Hotspur Place was part of the 'original' Shiremoor - the family moved to nearby Duchess Street, which was built soon after. The Middletons lived on Duke Street, I think, which backed onto Duchess.

Hugh never discussed his past and his children (my nana included) thought he had been brought up in a children's orphanage. As it happened, he was born illegitimate. But I think David was his father - he and Ellen married in Glasgow soon after. My dad is called Hugh Millar Sharp, as he was born on 26 January, the birthdate of his granda Hugh!

Mick

[silvery]

So you don't think he's related to the other Hugh Miller that Elaine has found?

If Ellen married very soon after the birth of Hugh, I would think it's very likely that David was his father.   

[micksharp]

No, I don't think Elaine's Hugh is related to mine.