Hon. Sir John Millar M. L. C. , J. P. ⁴

  Birth Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530828

And

Copy of John Millar's Death Notice dated 22 May 1919 in RAB's possession. It records his death on 13 March 1894. He was 71 when he died.

  Death Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530828

And

National Archives of South Africa

DEPOT NAB
SOURCE MSCE
TYPE LEER
VOLUME_NO 0
SYSTEM 01
REFERENCE 4102/1894
PART 1
DESCRIPTION MILLAR, JOHN. (SURVIVING SPOUSE MILLAR ELLEN (BORN AYRES) (DIED 1902)).
STARTING 1894
ENDING 1919

And

Copy of John Millar's Death Notice dated 22 May 1919 in RAB's possession. It records his death on 13 March 1894.

  Burial Notes:

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530828

And

http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=1530765

  Sources of information or noted events in his life were:

• Web Based Info. http://www.durban.gov.za/Documents/DiscoverDurban/Museums%20and%20Durban%20Art%20Gallery/1_march2002_publications_ppmar02.pdf

And

http://www.geni.com/people/John-Millar/6000000027775732184

And

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23609-17202-59?cc=1468076

• Children. They had 11 Children.
http://www.durban.gov.za/Documents/DiscoverDurban/Museums%20and%20Durban%20Art%20Gallery/1_march2002_publications_ppmar02.pdf

28 Feb 2012 Of these 11 children I have positively identified:-

1) Walter Millar
2) Alice Millar
3) Alfred Duchesne Millar
4) Herbert Millar
5) Harold Martel Millar
6) Gertrude Millar

On the time line basis plotted by me
the following are possible candidates:-

A) George Lowe Millar (1869-1942)
B) Charles H Millar (1865-1916
C) William Millar (1871-1951)
D) William Balfour Millar (1875-1947)

• Travel. He came to Natal in 1849
http://www.durban.gov.za/Documents/DiscoverDurban/Museums%20and%20Durban%20Art%20Gallery/1_march2002_publications_ppmar02.pdf

• Occupation. From numerous records in the PMB archives.

Member of the Legislative Council

Member of the Natal Law Society

And

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-266-11110-95622-89?cc=2063749&wc=M9WM-PPP:41539018
Merchant

And

Mayor of Durban.
http://www.archive.org/stream/durbanfiftyyears00hend/durbanfiftyyears00hend_djvu.txt

And

Merchant.
Copy of John Millar's Death Notice dated 22 May 1919 in RAB's possession. It records her death on 13 March 1894.

And

Merchant.
https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1942-23609-17202-59?cc=1468076

• General Comment. For example Durban's new inspector of nuisances, R.C. Alexander, recently recruited from Indian Army service, reported in 1877 on premises in West Street in the commercial center of town owned in two cases by a leading white citizen and in one case by Durban's first "Arab" merchant, Abubakar Amod, licensed to trade in 1875:

Lot 2a BLock E., 3750 square feet was the property of John Millar, Esq., MLC. On it were 25 apartments including outhouses, constructed of wood and corrugated iron. Ten were living and sleeping compartments for 30 people. Two of these met the spatial requirements of the byelaws (Sec. 73). There was no light and no ventilation. Eight rooms were used as retail shops, four as kitchens, three as privies "of the very worst nature," and a number served as chicken houses.

Lot 4a, Block E, 4500 square feet, also the property of John Millar, had 22 apartments, 10 of them used by 14 people. None of the rooms met the requirements of the bye-laws and were unfit for habitation. There were four kitchens, one stable and one privy unfit for use. The remainder, eight, were retail shops.

Lot 10a, Block E, 2500 square feet, was the property of Aboobakar Amod, containing sixteen apartments. It was 25 feet wide and enclosed by brick buildings on either side. A brick store fronted it along West Street. Behind the store were ten wooden rooms each 5 x 10 feet or less with no windows, light or ventilation, eight of them stated to house 14 people. There were three kitchens, and one useless privy.

http://abahlali.org/files/Swanson.asiatic_menace.pdf

• General Comment. There is a tale of fascinating incompetence at http://natalia.org.za/Files/32/Natalia%2032%20pp%2036-42%20C.pdf
concerning the The Natal Governor's house in St Andrew's Street.

"It was not until 7 June 1887, eleven years to the day since it had been bought, that the property was purchased by John Millar on behalf of Mrs Natalia Grice for £3 000. It had cost, with transfer fees and interest £4 858-4-7 and an estimated £700 had been spent on it."

Mrs. Natalia Grice is Martha Louisa Natalia Beningfield who married John James Grice. see http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/13389369/person/-76887810

• General Comment. From Natal Who's Who
http://www.archive.org/stream/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog/natalwhoswhoani00unkngoog_djvu.txt

MILLAR, William Robert; b. 6th July, 1809, in Glasgow ; e.s. [eldest son] of \\V. ¦Millar [probably William Millar], of CrielV, Scotland. Edue. T.eys
School, Cambridge. Add., Agency Director, New York Life Insurance Co.. Bank of Africa ('Innnbers, West. St.: and "DaImeny.' Duir's lid.. Natal. Member Durban Club. 10 years in Nata1. Served with the N.M.U. During the late Boer War.

I suspect this may be a brother. I cannot prove it yet.

• Will. Copy of John Millar's will in RAB's possession.

John married Ellen Ayres, daughter of John Ayres and Martha Duchesne, on 9 Aug 1851 in Goverment School, Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa. (Ellen Ayres was born on 1 Feb 1833 in , Hertfordshire, England, christened on 1 May 1833 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England, died on 2 Dec 1902 in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa and was buried in Durban, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa.)

  Sources of information or noted events in their marriage were:

• Web Based Info.