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Matthew Mills

Profile & Legacies Summary

???? - 1752

Biography

Slave-owner on St Kitts, husband of Cornelia nee Soulegre, brother of John Mills of Woodford (q.v.), and father of John Matthew Mills (q.v.). He was in London when he made his will in 1746, and was killed on St Kitts in 1752.

  1. Will of Matthew Mills [heretofore of St Kitts but now of Soho Square in the parish] of St Ann Middlesex [made in 1746] proved 18/01/1753. He left his wife Cornelia the interest on £10,000 for life, and his estates to his son Peter Matthew Mills (born he said in 1743).

Sources

  1. PROB 11/799/193

Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic
Spouse
Cornelia
Children
Peter Matthew

Relationships (4)

Matthew Mills
Father → Son
Peter Matthew Mills
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Matthew Mills
Brothers
John Mills of Woodford Bridge
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Matthew Mills
Testator → Executor
Thomas Mills of Great St Helens
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Matthew Mills described Thomas Mills as his cousin in appointing him on of the executors of his will in 1746, when Thomas Mills was in St...
Matthew Mills
Father-in-law → Son-in-law
John Smith Budgen
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John Smith Budgen married Lucretia Mills, the daughter of Matthew Mills, a decade or so after the latter's death....

Addresses (1)

Soho Square, London, Middlesex, London, England
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Of Soho Square when he made his will in 1746.