Tour Scotland Travel Video Annabel Millar Gravestone St Mungo's Church Cemetery Penicuik Midlothian

Tour Scotland travel video of the Annabel Millar gravestone in St Mungo's Church cemetery on ancestry visit to Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland. Annabel Millar spouse to Thomas Rutherford Papermaker at Pennycuik, 1737. Millar is Anglo Saxon occupational name derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century " mylnere " meaning the " operator of the mill ". The mill was an important centre in every medieval settlement, where peasants gathered to have their corn ground into flour. The miller often kept a proportion of the ground corn by way of payment. David Millar, together with his wife Rose, daughters Ann and Mary-Jane, and son Robert, were famine emigrants, who sailed from Belfast aboard the Glenmore bound for New York, America in February 1847. The Millar surname is an Anglo Saxon occupational name derived from the Olde English pre 7th Century " mylnere " meaning the " operator of the mill ". The mill was an important centre in every medieval settlement, where peasants gathered to have their corn ground into flour. The miller often kept a proportion of the ground corn by way of payment. The surname from this source is first recorded towards the end of the 13th Century, and is found in the records of every county in England. In the modern idiom the spelling of the name is Miller or Millar, the latter being a Scottish form.

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