Name, year of birth, date of “20 January 1878” of marriage to Ruth in “Mary Ann and James William Kelly's home in Dunedin”, from Janet (Jan) Kelly in an email dated 22 July 2010. Jan is the great-granddaughter of Mary Ann Carroll, Mary being a daughter of John and Talitha (nee Hutchings) Carroll/Carrel.

Year and country of death from Death search on New Zealand BDM website in June 2018:
1879/3106. Scott, John Miller, died age 31Y [Year of birth circa 1848 which matches exactly]

Full date of death of 29 May 1879 from further searching in October 2018 on BDM Search by incrementally changing the date range for the death.

John is the middle of three brothers, the family came to New Zealand [from Scotland] in 1861, married Ruth in the First Church Otago in Dunedin on 30th Jan 1878, from Ronald Scott Morrow in an email dated 16 November 2023.
Ron (born circa 1929) is the great-grandson of Robert Scott, brother of this John Miller Scott.

Date and place of birth, place of death, place of burial, from Find a Grave website found in November 2023:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/127420842/john-miller-scott
Birth: 11 Sep 1847, Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland
Death: 29 May 1879 (aged 31), Dunedin City, Otago, New Zealand
Burial: Northern Cemetery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Plot: Block 46, Plot 1

Date of birth confirmed, date and place of baptism, from the Scotland Batism records found in November 2023:
Name: John Scott
Age: 0
Birth Date: 11 Sep. 1847
Baptism Date: 19 Sep. 1847
Baptism Place: Blairgowrie,Perth,Scotland
Father: David Scott
Mother: Grace Dow