Hon. William Miller (attorney)

1780 - 1837

Claimant or beneficiary

Biography

William Miller, the 'Attorney-General', a large-scale attorney of estates in Jamaica, most of whose awards were as receiver or executor or in similar capacities, in London in the mid-1830s and apparently dying there c. 1837.

  1. Miller testified in 1836 in London that he had owned 'a few domestics', which appears largely borne out by his appearances in the compensation records, where his awards were mostly as executor or receiver, although he had bought and sold enslaved people on his own account in St James and Trelawny in the 1820s. Of modest Scottish origin, his reputed fortune at death appears to have been bult up from management rather than ownership of estates and the enslaved people upon them.

  2. William Miller of 16 Bryanstone Square aged 57 was buried at All Souls Kensal Green 15/03/1837.

  3. The will of William Miller [formerly of Trelawny Jamaica] of 16 Bryanstone Square was proved 01/04/1837. He left his sister Janet McLermont [?] an annuity of £200 p.a.; £100 p.a. to his nephew George Miller son of his late sister Jane formerly Jane Turnbull primarily of Glasgow: George Miller has he sad, been a partner in Cadieu and Miller of Trelawny. He left his plate and china to his niece Christina Oldham (nee Wingate), wife of Joseph Oldham of Dublin, together with enough cash to bring the value of the bequest to £1000. He gave £1000 to another niece Margaret Buchanan, and £2000 to his nephew William McLermont at 30. He left land in Trelwaney to a free woman of colour, Ann Miller, for life with an annuity of £50 currency p.a. His residuary heir was his brother George Miller of 10 Cumberland Street, Portugal Square.


Sources

  1. Higman, Plantation Jamaica pp. 78; Select Committee on Negro Apprenticeship (1836), which identified him as living at Bryanstone Square. Draper, Price of Emancipation pp. 141, 187.

  2. Ancestry.com, London, England, Deaths and Burials, 1813-1980 [database online].

  3. PROB 11/1876/421.


Further Information

Absentee?
Transatlantic?

Associated Claims (8)

£3,234 8s 1d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£5,056 2s 7d
Awardee (Receiver)
£303 9s 11d
Awardee
£5,478 0s 11d
Awardee (Receiver)
£1,598 5s 10d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£1,814 12s 3d
Awardee (Executor or executrix)
£103 4s 2d
Awardee
£303 19s 19d
Awardee

Associated Estates (69)

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
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Manager
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Other

Sold enslaved people to this estate.

1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - → Receiver
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1828 [EA] - 1830 [LA] → Not known
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Agent
1829 [EA] - 1834 [LA] → Receiver
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1834 [EA] - → Executor
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1829 [EA] - → Manager
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1823 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Receiver
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1829 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1820 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1820 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Receiver
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1817 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Attorney
1829 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Agent
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1832 [EA] - → Attorney
1829 [EA] - → Manager
1817 [EA] - 1823 [LA] → Attorney
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Attorney
1820 [EA] - 1826 [LA] → Owner
1826 [EA] - 1832 [LA] → Owner
1832 [EA] - → Attorney

Relationships (1)

Executor → Testator

Addresses (1)

16 Bryanston Square, London, Middlesex, London, England