Rev. John Macmillan

Donald was born at Ballachulish in the western Highlands of Scotland on 12 September 1833 to Presbyterian minister Rev John Macmillan and his wife Mary Ann (nee Kennedy). He was the third child in a family of eight. The family had moved to Ballachulish in 1829 and they lived in a newly erected manse in Onich, close to Loch Linnhe... Rev John MacMillan left the Church of Scotland at the Disruption in 1843 and became the first minister of Kirkcudbright Free Church at Cardross in Dumbartonshire. At this stage the family surname was changed from McMillan to Macmillan. In May 1858 John was libeled and suspended for his drunkenness. His appeal failed and he left the church in 1863. The accusations were proven false, but he never recovered and became a Book Canvasser in Glasgow, Lanarkshire. Source: Ellen McCormack (2011) https://perma.cc/l9pc-5rzp.