Other RIGGS-MILLERS and Riggs MILLERs have been identified, either in or near Nenagh itself or elsewhere in Ireland, and also elsewhere in the world.

It is highly probable that at least one or more of these may be related to or descended from THOMAS JOHN RIGGS-MILLER formerly RYAN. But until such a link can be proved, they have been segregated and documented on this separate page, distinguishing between those living in or near NENAGH co.TIPPERARY and those living ELSEWHERE IN THE WORLD.

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TOMMY RIGGS-MILLER

There are a number of references between July 2000 and November 2003 to TOMMY RIGGS-MILLER and his successes in tennis league matches and championships playing for St. Lua's Athletic Club, Killaloe, Co.Limerick. They originally appeared in the Limerick Leader newspaper Online Edition but, since its archives currently only run from October 2002 onwards, they can best be found in the results of a Google search. The reports are inconsistent in that 5 of the 10 refer to Tommy Riggs MILLER whilst the other 5 refer to Tommy RIGGS-MILLER. A further reference to one of Tommy RIGGS-MILLER's tennis successes appeared in the The Guardian newspaper, Nenagh, Co.Tipperary in May 2003.

There is also a reference in the Limerick Leader newspaper Online Edition issue of 30SEP2000 to an Ann E. Riggs MILLER winning the ladies doubles in the same tennis club at Killaloe.

Killaloe is less than 20 miles south-west of Nenagh, but it is not currently known whether this is the TOMMY RIGGS-MILLER who was John Riggs MILLER's son.

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JOANNA RIGGS-MILLER

A JOANNA RIGGS-MILLER made a Planning Application to the North Tipperary County Council 10OCT2003 for permission re works at Tullaheady, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, but this was subsequently withdrawn on 18NOV2003.

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MRS T. J. RIGGS-MILLER

There are a number of references on horse racing and point-to-point websites to MRS T.J.RIGGS-MILLER being an owner/breeder of horses. The Horse Id Numbers cited are those quoted on the Racingpost.com website:

• The Irish Times (p9 on 25SEP1975) printed a report on the International Horse Sale held on 24SEP975 that included the sale of a chestnut gelding owned by Mrs.T.J.Riggs-Miller. It had been born in 1971 by Kaiser out of Lily The Pink.
• The Irish Times (p2 on 7FEB1985) printed the racecard for that day's meeting at Clonmel which included an entry for Mentulla owned by Mrs T.J.Riggs-Miller. It was born in 1978 and that was apparently its first outing on a racecourse.
• Breeder and Owner of the racehorse Royal Optimist (Horse Id = 44258). It was born in 1984 by Prince Regent out of Port Magee (winner of the Irish Cambridgeshire), and raced between NOV1988 and NOV1994. The majority of the racecards on which it was listed from FEB1991 to SEP1994 appeared in the Irish Times
• Breeder of the racehorse The Shade Matcher (Horse Id = 72633). It was born in 1986 by Black Minstrel out of Dursey Sound, and raced between DEC1991 and DEC1994.
• Owner (listed as Mrs J.Riggs-Miller) of the racehorse and point-to-pointer Hush Dancer (Horse Id = 526280). It was born in 1994 by Eurobus out of Hold Your Whist and raced between FEB2000 and DEC2001. The breeder is not listed but, since it had the same sire and dam as Eurotrack (see next item), Mrs.T.J.Riggs-Miller may have bred it also.
• Breeder and original Owner of the point-to-pointer and racehorse Eurotrack (Horse Id = 575139). It was born in 1997 by Eurobus out of Hold Your Whist and raced between MAR2002 and MAY2007.

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ANN ELIZABETH RIGGS-MILLER

Ann Elizabeth RIGGS-MILLER is one of the Individual Friends of the Irish Chamber Orchestra.

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THOMAS HENRY RIGGS-MILLER

Mr Thomas H Riggs-Miller was a passenger aboard the S.S.Penguin when it was wrecked on 12FEB1909 in Cook Strait, off the Wellington Coast of New Zealand. With a death toll of 72, it was the greatest New Zealand maritime disaster of the 20th century. He and Sylvester Edward Holcroft, a friend he was travelling with, were washed off the keel of the boat they had boarded by a large wave. He survived because he swam for half an hour or more holding on with one arm to a spar drifting in the water. With his other arm he held on to the arm of his friend in an attempt to save him, but his friend eventually drowned. In the extensive account of the tragedy which he gave to a local newspaper, he is described as "a well-built and well-groomed young man, who carries about his 13st 4lbs of avoirdupois as if it didn't worry him in the least."[S102]

Thomas Henry Riggs-Miller [S47] arrived in New York on 06JLY1913 on the S.S.Philadelphia from the port of Southampton, England. He is listed as being English, with his last permanent residence being Johannesburg, South Africa and his occupation is shown as a Theatrical Agent. The ship's manifest describes him as 5'11" tall with a brown complexion, brown hair and brown eyes, age 26 and born in Vanoua(?) Fiji - his marital status is not quoted. He was travelling from African Theatrical Trust Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, and going to visit a friend J.H.Allen at 500 Astor Theatre Building, 1531 Broadway, New York.

'Tomas'(sic) H Riggs Miller [S47] also arrived in New York 24JNE1914, on the S.S.Saratoga from the port of Havana, Cuba. He is listed as being Irish, with his last permanent residence being New York, and his occupation is shown as a salesman. The ship's manifest describes him as a single man 5'10" tall with a fair complexion, brown hair and brown eyes, age 28 and born in the Fiji Islands. He was travelling from Hotel Telegrafi Havana, and going to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York..

On 02DEC1930, Thomas Henry Riggs-Miller became a naturalised citizen of the United States. He was then age 43 and living in the New Dorp neighbourhood of Staten Island, New York.[S103]

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SEÑORA MARIA RIGGS-MILLER

'La Causerie Française', a club founded in 1913 in Kansas City, USA, to study the French language, established a Spanish Department and started Spanish classes in 1941. "The first Spanish teacher, Señora Maria Riggs-Miller from Barcelona, a former opera singer, taught for eight years before leaving for South America."

A "Report of the Death of an American Citizen" was completed by the US Consular Office in Caracas, Venezuela on 1965APR23 [Reports of the Deaths of American Citizens, compiled 01/1963-12/1974. General Records of the Department of State, 1763-2002, National Archives, Washington, D.C. NARA Series #: RG59-Entry 5166; Roll/Box #: 27; NARA Box Description: 1965 PE-SCHR - viewable online at ancestry.com]. It stated that she had been born 1887DEC24, naturalized 1951FEB21, and died 1965MAR28 age 77 at Edif.Castan, Ap.2, Calle La Pena, Les Mercedes, Caracas, Venezuela. Her body was shipped to Kansas City, MO, 1965MAR31 for burial and her effects were in the custody of her son Edward Riggs-Miller, of Aptdo.11571 Este, Caracas. Her passport #Z314210, which had been issued 1963NOV21 at Caracas, had been cancelled and returned to her son and the death certificate had been issued 1965MAR30.

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Mrs LILLIAN RIGGS MILLER (nee VUKMIROVICH)

Mrs Lillian RIGGS MILLER, daughter of Vladimir VUKMIROVICH, married as her second husband Berkeley Everard Foley GAGE on 4OCT1954, having divorced her first husband, and he having divorced his first wife earlier in 1954.[S123] He was born in 1904, was knighted the year after this second marriage as Sir Berkeley Gage, KCMG, and died in 1994.[S98] "His kinsman, General Thomas Gage, had commanded the British forces during the War of American Independence".[S17]

His full career postings were as follows: Third Secretary, Rome 1928-31; Private Secretary to Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State 1934; Second Secretary, Peking (later Nanking) 1935-38; First Secretary, Chungking 1941-44; Counsellor, The Hague 1947-50; CMG 1949, KCMG 1955; Consul- General, Chicago 1950-54; Ambassador to Thailand 1954-57; Ambassador to Peru 1958-63; Chairman, Latin America Committee, British National Export Council 1964-66; Chairman, Anglo-Peruvian Society 1969-71.[S143]

Lady Gage died on 14MAY2009.[S143]

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HENRY RIGGS-MILLER

The website of Wake Forest University Athletics Men's Soccer in North Carolina shows a "Henry Riggs-Miller (1984-85)" in the Career Leaders Points table

This may or may not be the same person as the Henry Riggs-Miller, a Saltwater Fishing Expert of the firm South Fishing, Inc., who has been a member of the Guatemalan team, Team Picapleitos, placed in the various Presidential Challenges for saltwater fishing.

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ALEX RIGGS-MILLER

An Alex Riggs-Miller was a member of the Item Development Team for the Citrix Presentation Server 4.0

It is the convention in the U.S.A. for married women to insert their maiden surname before their husband's surname. Therefore I have assumed that any female Riggs MILLER I discovered living in the U.S.A. would probably not be related to or descended from THOMAS JOHN RIGGS-MILLER alias RYAN, but someone whose maiden surname was RIGGS and who then married a MILLER.

They have not therefore been included in this section of the Surname Study which relates to the 'double barrelled' RIGGS MILLER or RIGGS-MILLER surname.