The following information
contributed by Alan + Tina Bennet.......
Robert James Millar
(born 1886, Strabane) was married to Bridget McGrane (daughter of Charles + Mary Anne Mc Grane, born c 1888 in
Ballinacarrick, Ballintra, Co Donegal).
Bridget was from Ballintra
in Co Donegal. She had moved to Strabane to work in her brother's, Jim and
Charles, shop. Family lore says that Bridget went to America where she met a
man. On a visit back home to tell her parents, she met Robert Millar.
Robert married Bridget
McGrane at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Melmount, Strabane in 1915. Robert
James Millar was a Presbyterian but became a Roman Catholic to marry Bridget.
They lived at 16 Bridge St
Strabane, the house that his father Joseph and mother Maria had moved to
between 1901 and 1911.
In 1938 a fire destroyed
the First Presbyterian church in Townsend Street. Robert volunteered himself to
help fight the fire. The Presbyterians told him he was not needed!
The act of marrying a Catholic meant Robert's relationsip with the rest of his family would be strained for years to come.
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