Milheugh

The Glasgow Bannatynes are sprung from the ancient family of Bannatyne of Kames in Bute.

I. - WILLIAM BANNATYNE, the second son of the Laird of Kames, married in 1630 Lucretia Boyd of the Trochraig Family, cadets of the noble House of Kilmarnock. They had a son.

II. - JOHN BANNATYNE, who married a cousin, Janet Bannatyne of Lubas. They had two sons - (I.) Ninian of Gardrum, who, by his wife, a lady of the name of Wilson, had a daughter (who married the Rev. Dugald Stewart, and they had a son Matthew, Professor in Edinburgh, whose son was the famous Dugald Stewart, Professor of Moral Philosophy in Edinburgh who married in 1783, Helen Bannatyne, an aunt of the late Andrew Bannatyne, LL.D.), and three sons - 1) David Bannatyne of Gardrum, 2) John Bannatyne, served in the army with reputation for thirty years as an officer of horse, 3) Ninian Bannatyne went to the West Indies, where he made a fortune, and afterwards settled in London; (II.) Dugald, of whom we now treat.

III. - The REVEREND DUGALD BANNATYNE of Kilmory, Arran, married Margaret Hutchison, Monkwood, Ayrshire, and had a daughter and three sons - 1) Catherine, named James Stuart of Finnick. 2) John, a clergyman, chaplain to the regiment of "Scots Greys." 3) Charles, also a clergyman, minister of the parish of Irvine. He married Barbara, daughter of A. Cunningham of Brighouse, in Ayrshire, and had a son - 1) John, who married Janet Findlay, daughter of Robert Findlay of Easterhill, and had issue Charles, rector of Aldham, Essex, who married his cousin Dorothea, daughter of the next Robert Findlay of Easterhill; and Dorothea : 2) Neil, who married her cousin John Bannatyne, and had issue Dugald, Neil, and Isabella. 4) Neil, of whom we now treat.

IV. - NEIL BANNATYNE settled in Glasgow as a merchant, and married into the Shettleston family, having espoused Isobel, daughter of George Bogle, Dean of Guild in 1743 (see Daldowie, Shettleston Branch). They had two sons and two daughters; 1) Dugald, of whom presently; 2) John, who married his cousin Neil, and of whom we have just treated; 3), Helen, who married, in 1783, Professor Dugald Stewart, and had issue Mathew, afterwards a Colonel in the army; she died in 1787; 4) Margaret, who married James Miller.

V. - DUGALD BANNATYNE, postmaster in Glasgow, married, in 1781, Agnes, daughter of William Stirling. He died in 1842, and she followed in 1848. Their family were - 1) Mary, born 1782, married, 1805, Robert Stark of Kirkhill. They had one son, Dugald, who died unmarried in Trinidad in 1843. Mr. Stark died in 1812, and his widow in 1869; 2) Helen, born in 1786, died an infant; 3) Isabella, born 1789, died in 1866; 4) Marion, born 1791, died in 1866; 5) Andrew, of whom presently; 6) Dugald John, born 1805, a well known writer in Glasgow, and partner of his brother Andrew. Married, in 1833, Janet Bogle, and had issue. He died in 1863; 7) Neil, died young; 8) William, died young; 9) Neil, died young.

VI. - ANDREW BANNATYNE, LL.D., &c., was born in 1798. He married, in 1828, Margaret Millar of Milheugh, whose family we now trace.

The Millars have been settled for many hundred years in the parish of Blantyre. In the middle of the sixteenth century, we find a John Millar in Milheugh, and at the close of it his son, another John, was in possession of the lands and Mill of Milheugh. Following the first John Millar as lairds of Milheugh, were five John Millars, who succeeded son to father in unbroken line. The sixth John Millar, with a most extraordinary and reprehensible disregard for the regularity of pedigree, which had hitherto subsisted, did not marry, and a James Millar was introduced. We shall begin our account of the family with the father of the bachelor, John Millar.

V. - JOHN MILLAR of Milheugh (the fifth John Millar there), in 1691, made up his titles as heir to his father. He married Margaret Cunningham of the knightly family of Gilbertfield in Cambuslang, and had - 1) Anne, born 1691, who married A. Thomson of Parkhead, and died without issue; 2) Helen, born 1694, died unmarried; 3) John, the VI. Laird of Milheugh, born 1696, who succeeded to the estate, and, as related, died a bachelor; 4) James, of whom we now treat.

VII. - The REVEREND JAMES MILLAR of Milheugh, was minister of the parish of Hamilton. He married in 1732, like his father, into another old Cambuslang family, having espoused Anne Hamilton, of the family of Westburn (see Westburn). They had issue - 1) John, of whom presently; 2) Archibald, died unmarried in 1776; 3) Anne, who married the Reverend Dr. Hutchison of Hamilton.

VIII. - JOHN MILLAR of Milheugh, Advocate and Professor of Law in the University of Glasgow, was born in 1735. He married, in 1760, Margaret Craig, and died in 1800. They had a family of thirteen children, of whom nine died young or unmarried - 1) John, the eldest son, born 1760, married, in 1790, Robina Cullen, but predeceased his father without issue; 2) James, of whom presently; 3) Agnes, who married James Mylne, Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow and had issue; 10) Margaret, who married Dr. Thomson, Professor of Surgery in the University of Edinburgh, and had issue - Allen, M.D., F.R.S., Professor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow.

IX. - JAMES MILLAR of Milheugh, Professor of Mathematics in the University of Glasgow, married Elizabeth Fisher, and had issue - 1) Mary, born 1800, died unmarried; 2) John, born 1802, died unmarried at Dawlish, 1822; 3) Margaret, of whom presently; 4) Alexander, died unmarried.

X. - MARGARET MILLAR of Milheugh, married, in 1828, Andrew Bannatyne, whose family history we have already treated of. Their family consists of - 1) John Millar, a retired colonel, who married, in 1859, Janet, daughter of James Farie of Farme, and has issue; 2) Dugald, died 1856, unmarried; 3) James; 4) Elizabeth, married, in 1860, John Jarvie, and has issue; 5) Agnes D'Arcy, married Robert Jarvie; 6) Mary Susan, died an infant; 7) Andrew of Glasgow, married, in 1863, Jane Cooke, and has issue; 8) Captain William, married Euphemia Jamieson, and has issue; 9) Mark of Glasgow, married Kate Reid, and has issue; 10) Alexander, R.N., died a cadet on board H.M.S. "Orion" 1857; 11) Neil, a captain in the army.

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