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- "Mary and John MacMillan of Camaghel had a son John, b. c 1840 who wentto Glasgow to become a spirit merchant. He married Jessie Cameron andthey had Donald MacMillan, d. Feb. 2, 1922(who designed and patented theMacMillan hunting tartan), and Ewen and Hugh. Donald is buried in theKilmallie Cem. beside his father and brother, John and Samuel DowMacMillan, wine mechants.
Dow was a name often used by the MacMillans when in Glasgow. In 1990 theAlasdair Dow Spirit wholesalers was still listed in the Glasgow yellowpages. "Pigeon whisky" was a speciality."
From Margaret Cameron, Box 621, Long Sault, Ontario KOC 1PO(margaret077@sympatico.ca) 6 Oct 2003
"Another of John and Ann McCalman's eleven children, a daughter namedMary, married John McMillan, a crofter at Camaghel. Their son, John,born in 1840, also went to Glasgow and became a spirit merchant. ThisJohn McMillan married Jessie Cameron and had at least seven children, themost distinguished of whom was Donald, magistrate of the burgh andjustice of the peace for Lanark County. Donald and his brother, HughEwen, started a fine drapery business in Partick, Scotland, and Donalddesigned and patented the MacMillan hunting tartan worn by the chief andhis family. Ex-Baillie McMillan of Partick was also a founding member ofthe Clan MacMillan Society in Glasgow and served seven years as societychief. It was his...interest that persuaded Pipe Major John MacColl ofOban to compose the "Clan MacMillan March". Donald McMillan died in 1922and is buried in the McMillan section of the old Kilmallie churchyardbeside his father and brother, wine merchants, John and Samuel DowMcMillan...."
..."The Dow spirit firm was a revered Scottish concern that remained inthe family for more than 160 years until it was sold to a company namedAllied by Alistair Dow in the 1970s." The foregoing is from book,"MacMillans" by D. MacMillan."
From Margaret Cameron, Box 621, Long Sault, Ontario KOC 1PO(margaret077@sympatico.ca) 6 Oct 2003
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