Hello Diane Your Andrew may have left Scotland for the 'diggings'. The timing would fit with his supposed arrival and with his one-time occupation of 'miner'. But I had a look on the National Archives of Scotland online catalogue for likely 'convicts' and there was one of interest. In 1843 an Andrew MILLAR alias ADAM Millar was tried with four others including a John and Archibald McNAUGHT, at the High Court in Edinburgh for the crime of 'reset of theft' (I think this is handling of stolen goods) at two addresses in Paisley, Renfrewshire. Andrew Millar confessed and was sentenced to 7 years transportation. John and Archibald McNaught were sentenced to 14 years transportation. All 3 were weavers. Five years later, in 1848, an Andrew MILLAR, 18, son of ADAM Millar, of Stanhope Place, Glasgow was arrested for housebreaking, along with a John and Archibald MCNAUGHT, both of Paisley. Again all 3 were weavers. This sounds very like the same trio. I suppose they may have avoided transportation and perhaps escaped from prison. Unfortunately, the trial papers for this offence are not indexed on the online catalogue, so I don't know the outcome of the trial. And I couldn't find a household headed by an Adam Millar, son Andrew/Adam, in the 1841 Scottish Census. The 'Adam' is interesting. One of your Andrew's sons was named George Adam. Rhoda ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Essex-Clark" <defect@lizzy.com.au> To: <SCT-RENFREW@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2010 3:44 AM Subject: [SCT-RENFREW] Fw: Andrew Millar of Greenock > Hello, > > The person I am looking for was called Andrew MILLAR. It is unknown when > and > how he arrived in Australia. He married Jane Sarah Percival from London on > 8 > Jan 1853 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.