The Old Family
and how we got here
Janet was the ninth of eleven children to Robert Dickie and Ann Stewart. We can take guesses at her heritage but there's little point as all we really have are names and dates with no real detail of the lives of her ancestors except that both sides seem to have the word Mill in their placenames suggesting that maybe they were millers and knew each other through this common trade. However, Robert Dickie from Hartshaw Mill was a farmer according to Janet's death entry. That doesn't mean he didn't mill as well though.