Margaret Ambrose Porter Miller¹

Parents:

• Birth*: Margaret Ambrose Porter Miller was born on 10 October 1900 at 159 Scouringburn, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, .²
• She was the daughter of William Miller jute powerloom tenter and Marion McKenzie Conway jute weaver.
• (Deceased) Death*: Margaret Ambrose Porter Miller died on 12 December 1909 at 13 Rosefield Street, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, , at age 9 1909 deaths in the district of St Mary in the burgh of Dundee, ref 782; Margaret Ambrose Porter Miller single, 1909 December twelfth 10h 0m pm 13 Rosefield Street Dundee, female aged 9 years, parents William Miller powerloom tenter foreman and Marion MeKenzie Miller ms Conway, tubercular meningiitis 19 days as cert by James H E Laing MBCM, signed Robert Neil brother-in-law 20 Union Place, registered 1909 December 13th at Dundee Tho Meek registrar.³

Census & Directory Entries

Member of Household

31 March 1901

They was listed as a member of the household of William Miller jute powerloom tenter and Marion McKenzie Conway jute weaver in the 1901 census at 149 Scouringburn, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, . Margaret Miller, daughter, single, aged 5 months, born Forfarshire Dundee; William Miller, head, married, aged 39, Foreman Jute Weaver, worker, born Forfarshire Dundee; Marion Miller, wife, married, aged 38, born Forfarshire Dundee [?].2

Notes

• (Witness) History: Five into One –Tay Square Church. Tay Square traces its origins to the secessions of the eighteenth century. From 1743, School Wynd Secession Church flourished, but in 1832, a group of members, dissatisfied over the nomination of a new minister, disjoined to form Tay Square United Secession Church, entering their new church in 1834. Rev. Robert Wardrope, 1807-1840 was called in 1832 to be minister of School Wynd Church, but in consequence of a dispute in that congregation the call was not sustained. Those who supported him left the church, and were formed into a separate congregation —Tay Square —and they at once called Mr Wardrope, but his delicate health prevented his acceptance of the call. He died when only 33 years of age. Still in the church archives, this silhouette of Rev. Robert Wardrope was lent by its owner, Andrew Roxburgh, to be exhibited in the “Old Dundee” exhibition of 1892-93 –held in the Albert Institute (now McManus Galleries).
  
  The first minister, the Rev. J R McGavin, was elected in 1875 as Moderator of the United Presbyterian Synod. The second, the Rev. Dr Charles Jerdan, became Principal Clerk of the United Free Church General Assembly. Under these two ministers, Tay Square became one of the foremost congregations in the United Presbyterian Church. Mission activities centred on the West Port, Artillery Lane and Hawkhill, the last leading to the founding in 1876 of Hawkhill United Presbyterian Church, which united with Tay Square in 1903.
  
  Such community interests were extended onto a national scale by the Rev. John Mansie, who as Convener of the Assembly Committee on Social Problems, was largely responsible for the establishment in 1931 of the Belmont Castle Eventide Home. After the union of Tay Square and St. Paul's in 1952, the Tay Square building was reopened as St. Paul's Halls by Mrs Jarvis, wife of the Very Rev. Ernest D Jarvis and daughter of the Rev. John Reid, a former Tay Square minister.
  
  © Meadowside St. Paul’s 2017. All rights reserved.⁴
  

  Tay Square Church - from the book Tay Square Church, Dundee, A Centenary in Retrospect, 1832-1932 [PCC Jun 2017]