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THE ANCESTRY OF HAROLD MACMILLAN

 

Maurice Harold Macmillan, 1st Earl of Stockton

   b 10 Feb 1894, London

   d 29 Dec 1986, Birch Grove, Sussex

 

Parents

 

Maurice Crawford Macmillan of 52 Cadogan Place, London, publisher

   b 19 Apr 1853, Cambridge

   d 30 Mar 1936, London

   m 22 Nov 1884, Shortlands, Kent

Helen Artie Belles

   b 1856, Spencer, Owen Co., Indiana

   d 26 Oct 1937, Birch Grove, Sussex

 

Grandparents

 

Daniel Macmillan of Cambridge, bookseller

   b 13 Sep 1813, Upper Corrie, Isle of Arran

   d 26 Jun 1857, Cambridge

   m 4 Sep 1850, Cambridge

Frances Eliza Orridge

   b 5 Jun 1821, Cambridge

   d 21 Jan 1867, York

Joshua Tarleton Belles, M.D., of Spencer

   b 4 Jan 1826, Kentucky

   d 13 Aug 1896

   m 20 Mar 1850, Marion Co., Indiana

Julia Ann Reid

   b ca 1830, Indiana

   d 11 Dec 1862

 

Great-grandparents

 

Duncan Macmillan of Upper Corrie and of Irvine, crofter

   b ca 1770

   d 24 Jul 1823

   m

Katherine Crawford

   b ca 1772

   d 1 Aug 1835

10 Charles Orridge of Regent Street, Cambridge, chemist

   b 4 Mar 1786, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

   d 2 Jan 1858, Cambridge

   m 13 Jul 1813, Attleborough, Norfolk

11 Ann Green

   bap 3 Mar 1790, Attleborough

   d 9 Feb 1873, London

12 John Belles of Scott Co., Kentucky and of Marion Co., Indiana, farmer and tavern keeper

   b 26 Oct 1781, Kentucky

   d 5 Jun 1839

   m 28 Jul 1806, Scott Co., Kentucky

13 Artemesia Tarleton

   b 9 Oct 1788, Kentucky

   d 14 Aug 1826

14 Archibald Cemp Reid of Marion Co., Indiana

   b

   d 23 Feb 1836

   m ca 1816, Butler Co., Ohio

15 Lavina Ferguson

   b ca 1796, Kentucky

   d 3 Apr 1873, Indianapolis

 

Great-great-grandparents

 

16 Malcolm Macmillan of the Cock, Arran, farmer

   b Lochranza, Arran

   d

   m

17 Janet Kerr

   b

   d

18 William Crawford

   b

   d

   m

19 Katherine Shaw

   b

   d

20 Daniel Orridge

   b ca 1747

   d 19 Oct 1831, Bury St Edmunds

   m 22 Oct 1770, Hunston

21 Sarah Jolly

   b ca 1752

   bur 8 Jun 1790, St James, Bury St Edmunds

22 William Green of Attleborough, innholder

   b ca 1744

   bur 17 Oct 1797, Attleborough

   m 12 Oct 1778, Thetford

23 Esther Wick

   b ca 1755

   bur 22 Mar 1845, Attleborough

24 Henry Belles

   b

   d ca 1808

   m

25 Mary

   b

   d ca 1834

26 Caleb Tarleton of Kentucky, farmer

   b

   d 1841

   m

27 Nancy Bean

   b

   d ca 1843

28 Archibald Reid

   b

   d

   m

29

   b

   d

30 Samuel Ferguson

   b

   d 1814

   m

31

   b

   d

 

 

Sources

 

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

R. Davenport-Hines, The Macmillans (London, 1992)

H. Macmillan, Winds of Change 1914-1939 (London, 1966)

A. Horne, Macmillan 1894-1956 (London, 1988)

Who’s Who, 1929

David Orridge, “The Orridge Family”, Journal of The Cambridgeshire Family History Society, vol. 3 no. 4 (Nov 1981)

Bury St. Edmunds St. James Parish Registers (Suffolk Green Books no. XVII, 1915-16)

Attleborough Parish Registers 1552-1840 (transcribed by E.W. Sanderson, ed. and indexed by Patrick Palgrave-Moore, Norfolk Genealogy, vol. XII)

1851 census returns, Cambridge (HO107/1760, fol. 420 and fol. 424)

1881 census returns, Streatham (RG11/664, fol. 45)

Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity (Chicago, 1908)

The Times, Jan 1858, 1 Apr 1936 and 27 Oct 1937

Cambridge Chronicle and University Journal, 26 Jan 1867

The Bury and Norwich Post, 11 Sep 1850

Will of Daniel Macmillan (no. 4)

T. Hughes, Memoir of Daniel Macmillan (London, 1882)

Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana (Chicago, 1893)

C.W. Tarleton, The Tarleton Family (Concord, 1900)

Mrs Harry Kennett McAdams, Kentucky Pioneer and Court Records (Lexington, 1929)

The Morning Post, 25 Nov 1884

Carrie Tarleton Goldsborough and Anna Goldsborough Fisher, Tarleton Records (Atlanta, 1950)

Indiana Marriages Through 1850 (https://digital.statelib.lib.in.us/legacy/)

1850 census, Indianapolis

1860 census, Marion Co., Indiana

1880 census, Spencer, Indiana

Indiana State Sentinel, 28 Mar 1850

The Indiana State Sentinel, 15 Dec 1862

The Norwich Mercury, 15 Feb 1873

The Lincoln, Rutland and Stamford Mercury, 28 Oct 1831

Yorkshire Gazette, 26 Jan 1867

The Indianapolis News, 4 Apr 1873

Thetford parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

Attleborough parish registers (online at www.findmypast.co.uk)

St Mary the Great, Cambridge, bishop’s transcripts (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C9YG-G3V3-K)

U.S., General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 (online at www.ancestry.com)

Ruth Bowers and Anita Short, Gateway to the West, vol. 1 (Baltimore, 1989)

England Marriages, 1538–1973 (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N2DQ-3MX)

Monumental inscription of Duncan Macmillan and Katherine Crawford (www.findagrave.com/memorial/207338707/duncan-macmillan)

Dugald McKenzie McKillop, Annals of Megantic County, Quebec (Lynn, 1902)

Will of William Green (www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-62N9-KYM)