McMILLAN, Thomas Law
1825 - 1892 (67 years)
Generation: 1
1. McMILLAN, Thomas Law was born on 9 Mar 1825 in Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland (son of McMILLAN, James and LAW, Mary); died on 10 Jul 1892 in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 12 Jul 1892 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia. Notes:
In the 1841 census Thomas was listed as a Lead Miner at Wanlockhead, as was his father, in the 1851 census Thomas was a 26 years old medical student boarding with a family in Edinburgh, that year he headed to Pennsylvania to join his brothers, tried for gold in California, eventually leaving from San Francisco for Sydney as the Ship's Surgeon aboard the "Orient", he arrived in Melbourne, Victoria in early1853, where he once more went to the Goldfields before settling in Melbourne and marrying, he and Margaret had two trips back to Scotland where two of his daughters were born, he was still studying when Mary was born in 1858 and he was a Surgeon when Edith was born in 1868. Thomas was President of the Medical Society of Victoria in 1877, in 1883 he and his daughter Mary sailed on an extensive trip to America, the UK and Europe, he died in 1892 of Pneumonia which he'd had for 6 weeks.
Thomas married STALEY, Margaret on 3 Feb 1854 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Margaret (daughter of STALEY, Jonathan and GOLDIE, Mary) was born on 27 Oct 1834 in Scotland; was christened on 9 Nov 1834 in Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland; died on 16 Jun 1881 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; was buried in 1881 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:- McMILLAN, Mary was born on 16 Apr 1858 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died on 3 Apr 1928 in Sandringham, Victoria, Australia.; was buried in 1928 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
- McMILLAN, Alice Maud was born on 6 Jul 1865 in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia; died in 1866 in Kyneton, Victoria, Australia; was buried in 1866 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
- McMILLAN, Edith Agnes was born on 3 Nov 1868 in Edinburgh, Scotland; died on 11 Jul 1941 in Wellington, New Zealand.
- McMILLAN, Frances Hope was born in 1870 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; died in 1944 in Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia; was buried in 1944 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
2. McMILLAN, James James married LAW, Mary. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
3. LAW, Mary Children:
- 1. McMILLAN, Thomas Law was born on 9 Mar 1825 in Wanlockhead, Dumfriesshire, Scotland; died on 10 Jul 1892 in East Malvern, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 12 Jul 1892 in Melbourne General Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.