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Duncan Davidson Milligan

Profile & Legacies Summary

1793 - 1846

Biography

Son of Robert Milligan and Jean Dunbar. Baptised in Holborn, 1793. His father was a planter and West India merchant involved in the building of the West India docks. Duncan Davidson Milligan himself became a West India merchant, of Milligan, Robertson & Co. London-based. Bankrupt by 1828.


Sources

Ancestry.com, London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 [database online]. National Archives B 3/4340 In the matter of Colin Robertson, Duncan Davidson Milligan and Robert Milligan Dalzell all late of Fenchurch Street, London and now of Lime Street Square, London, merchants (dealers and chapmen), bankrupts. http://hughankirkcudbright.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/family-of-jean-milligan-thomas-hughans.html [accessed 17/06/2014]. http://hughankirkcudbright.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/7-duncan-davidson-milligan.html [accessed 17/06/2014].

Further Information

Absentee?
British/Irish
Spouse
not married
Children
[With Wilhelmina Teich?] Maria Louise [Mary] Milligan
Occupation
West India merchant

Associated Estates (3)

The dates listed below have different categories as denoted by the letters in the brackets following each date. Here is a key to explain those letter codes:

  • SD - Association Start Date
  • SY - Association Start Year
  • EA - Earliest Known Association
  • ED - Association End Date
  • EY - Association End Year
  • LA - Latest Known Association
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Midgham [1] [ Jamaica | Westmoreland ]
1826 [EA] - → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Oxford Estate [ Jamaica | St Mary ]
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Mortgagee-in-Possession
Richmond [ Jamaica | St Mary ]

Legacies Summary

Commercial (1)

Partner
Milligan Robertson
West India merchant  
 
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Relationships (3)

Duncan Davidson Milligan
Brothers
David Milligan
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Duncan Davidson Milligan
Son → Father
Robert Milligan
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Duncan Davidson Milligan
Business partners
Colin Robertson
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