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George Mair was the son of Patrick Mare (spelling various) also known as Peter Marrs, a United Empire Loyalist, who in 1783 was granted land at Country Harbour, N. S. along with others in the Royal North Carolina Regiment. He came to Nova Scotia with a sister, Catherine, and two brothers, Robert and Simeon. Their home is thought to have been in South Carolina in an area between the Broad and Saluda Rivers. The family was probably of Scottish origin. Peter-Patrick married Susanna Weston and moved to Cow Bay in Halifax County. Among his children in addition to George was Eliza (1800-1870) and Jane,first wife of Joseph McGill, 3 Halifax cooper. George's wife, Elizabeth, was a daughter of Leonard Moser, whose grandfather came to Nova Scotia from Switzerland in 1752 and of Mary Currie whose father Neil Curry, a Scot,who served on the British side in the American War of independence, was one of the early settlers in Sheet Harbour, Nova Scotia. Curry has been called "the father of presbyterianism" in that area of Nova Scotia.

George MAlR, b.June 3,181 l- d.Jan. 10,1853 = May 28, 1839 to Elizabeth Moser, b.1810 - d.1885, and had issue:

1. Joseph, b.1839- d. 1925,- 2. James Adam, b.Sept.11, 1841 - d.Jan.l, l931, = Dec.14, 1883 to Margaret Allen, daughter of Joseph Allen and Martha Hemphill of Boughton island, P.E.I. b.1859 - d. l 936, and had issue:

(l)Joseph Charles Stillman , b.1885 - d.189l;

(2) Anna Judson Rosborough, b.1886 - d. 1963;

(3) Mary Elizabeth, b.1888 - d.l928;

(4) Bartlett James, b.Dec.2G,189l - d. March 15,1938 = Oct.lS,l925 to Laura Hellen Yorston (1902-1992), daughter of George Patterson William Louis Yorston and Mary Jemima Crosman, of Charlottetown, P.E.l.,

and had issue:

1. Nathaniel Harrington, b.1926 =1968 to Violet Florence