The Reverend William Lloyd
MacGREGOR
A view of the Annapolis Basin from Smiths Cove, showing the Digby Gut, which separates Annapolis county (on the right) from Digby county (on the left).
The Rev. William Lloyd MacGregor was born in Bermuda on February 12th, 1863, the son of John McGregor. He had four brothers and one sister. He and his brother, James Welles, left home as soon as they were old enough. Both became school teachers.
William became a lay preacher at Joggins, Digby County, where he preached at the local Baptist Church from 1892 to 1894. In 1896, he married Adelaide Snow (1866-1902), daughter of Francis C. Snow and Sarah Jane Black, daughter of a Dr. Black of Windsor, NS. Francis, with his son Harry A., operated a woollen mill in Lequille, near Annapolis Royal. Adelaide Snow was a pupil of William when he taught school in Annapolis.
William and Adelaide had one child; a daughter Muriel, born in Cambridge, Mass. in 1898, who married on September 4th, 1918 Roy Gilman Miller of Newark, Ohio . Children of Muriel MacGregor and Roy Gilman:
i. Muriel Elizabeth married George L. Atkins of Langhorne, Pa. Issue:
a. George Atkins (Junior), born 1942.
b. Jill MacGregor Atkins, born 1947.
c. Elizabeth Stewart Atkins, born 1949.
Bruce Gilman Atkins, born 1952.
ii. Roy Gilman Miller Junior, married Norma M. Haman, of Langhorne, Pa. Issue:
a. Roy Gilman Miller (3rd) born 1944.
b. Dana Arthur Miller, born 1949.
iii. Jeanne Bryant Miller, married Charles R. Stuart, of Mount Clemons, Michigan. Issue:
a. Charles Roy Stuart, born 1946.
b. Gregg Bryant Stuart, born 1949.
c. Bruce David Stuart, born 1952.
d. Janice Muriel Stuart, born 1956.
e. Scott Stuart, born 1966.
After the death of Adelaide, William L. MacGregor married his older brother's, widow, Annie L. MacGregor (Cosset). They had one child, Annie Laurie, who became a teacher in a nursery school in Los Angeles, California. She married Edward Walker and had no children.
For many years William L. was principal of Harvard Grammar School (Grades 4 through 8) in Cambridge, Mass. In Smiths Cove, where he spent his summers to the end of his life, he was generally spoken of as "Professor" MacGregor. While in Cambridge, he spelled his name as "MacGregor" to avoid the spelling "McGregor", being pronounced MickGregor.
After the death of William's second wife, Annie, in August of 1922, at the age of 55 or 56, he married as his third wife, (her second husband) a registered nurse, who lived in the USA. Her present family name is Morrison. Rev. William L. MacGregor died aged 78 in April, 1941.