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RIGGS MILLER and RIGGS-MILLER:

SOURCES
for persons with either of these surnames,
including those who were descended from
MAJOR EDWARD RIGGS OF RIGGSDALE
Sir John Sir John Edward John Manvers Eliza Miller Thomas John Ryan Notes Sources
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bullet ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THIS SECTION
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TYPES OF SOURCES:

  • B = Burials;
  • C = Christenings;
  • IGI = International Genealogical Index
  • M = Marriages;
  • mfm = microfilm;
  • MSS = Manuscripts
  • PRs = Parish Registers;
  • tran = transcript

LOCATIONS OF SOURCES:

  • Br Lib = British Library, St Pancras, London;
  • BRK CRO = Berkshire County Record Office, Reading, Berks;
  • FHC = LDS Family History Centre;
  • FHLC = LDS Family History Library Catalogue
  • FRC = Family Records Centre, London;
  • ILEJ = Internet Library of Early Journals,
       an eLib (Electronic Libraries Programme) Project
       by the Universities of Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester and Oxford;
  • LDS = Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints;
  • Npt Lib = Central Reference Library, Newport, South Wales;
  • SoG Lib = Society of Genealogists Library, London;
  • SOM CRO = Somerset County Record Office, Taunton, Somerset;
  • TNA = The National Archives (formerly Public Record Office), Kew, SW9;

OTHER ABBREVIATIONS:

  • Cat = Catalogue;
  • Co = Company;
  • col = column;
  • comp = compiled by;
  • CUP = Cambridge University Press;
  • doc = document;
  • ed = edited by;
  • edit = edition;
  • fol = folio(s);
  • GPC = Gen.Publ.Co.Inc, Baltimore, Maryland, USA;
  • Inc = Incorporated;
  • info = information;
  • no(s) = number(s);
  • orig = original(ly);
  • OUP = Oxford University Press;
  • p = page (pp = pages);
  • PCC = Prerogative Court of Canterbury;
  • pr = printed;
  • pub = published;
  • Publ = Publishing;
  • ref = reference;
  • reg = register(s);
  • repr = reprinted;
  • rev = reverse (of folio);
  • sch = schedule number;
  • suppl = supplied by;
  • vol = volume;

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S3 W. Malcolm Low Papers, deposited (and examined) in SOG Lib

S4 SoG Reference D.MSS 776 Donor R.Holworthy - examined in SOG Lib

S5 p 495 of Notes And Queries 2nd Series. Vol.V.129., 19JNE1858 - downloaded from ILEJ

S6 p 192 of Notes And Queries 3rd Series. Vol.VIII. 2SEP1865 - downloaded from ILEJ

S10 p 821 of Lincolnshire Pedigrees, Harl Soc Vol 52 (ref Harl MS 1550) - copy examined in SOG Lib.

S12 The General Armory of England, Scotland, Wales; Comprising A Registry of Armorial Bearings From the Earliest To the Present Time, by Sir Bernard Burke, pub 1884 Harrison, 59, Pall Mall, London - viewable on-line at ancestry.co.uk
"Unofficial, often inaccurate and incomplete, this describes the arms attributed to most British families.".
Some differences in details compared with original editions.

S13 TNA doc ref PROB 37/550, PCC Cause Papers, Later Series: Travers and others v Miller and others Testator or intestate: Miller, Sir John Edward Riggs, baronet - orig docs examined at TNA

S14 p 626 of the Gentleman's Magazine July 1798 - orig viewed Npt Lib

S15 Vol 2 1660-1800 of The New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, ed.George Watson, CUP, 1971 Cambridge ENG - orig viewed Npt Lib

S16 Venn, J. A., comp Alumni Cantabrigienses.(Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900), CUP, 1922-1954, London - viewable online on the Cambridge Alumni Database and at ancestry.co.uk

S17 Obituary of Sir Berkeley Gage, publ The Daily Telegraph, London, 04MCH1994, p 21 - viewable online at ancestry.co.uk

S18 Property owners County Clare circa 1870 (p 701?) - viewable on-line on The C M C Record Project website.

S19 Faulkner's Dublin Journal; Dublin, Ireland, 1765: Tues27AUG1765-Sat31AUG1765 Marriages - viewable online at Ireland Old News web site.

S32 p 307 (refce 704) of "Irish Marriages Being an Index To The Marriages In Walker's Hibernian Magazine 1771 to 1812", by Henry Farrar; London, England; 1890 - viewable online at www.celticcousins.net/ireland/irish_marriages.htm and at www.ancestry.co.uk

S40 1851 General Alphabetical Index to the Townlands and Towns, parishes and Baronies of Ireland, Based on the Census of Ireland for the Year 1851, orig pub Stationary Office, Dublin 1861 repr 2000 ISBN#: 0806310529

S42 Welply's Irish Wills and Pleadings vol 17 1762-1808 - copy examined in SoG Lib ref IR/G112 (see also S56, S57 and S58)

S44 PCC Will Reg, TNA Cat Ref PROB 11/1713, Swabey Reg Quire Nos 338-339, fol 294rev-301 - image downloadable at PRO's DocumentsOnline website.

S45 PCC Will Reg, TNA Cat Ref PROB 11/1717, Swabey Reg Quire Nos (contained within 501-550), fol 346rev-349rev - image downloadable at PRO's DocumentsOnline website.

S49 Register of Admissions to the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple from the Fifteenth century to the year 1944, ed H.A.C.Sturgess & others, pub 1949 Butterworth & Co (Publ) Ltd, Temple Bar London - copy examined in SoG Lib ref PR/LAW

S53 Miller v. Travers (1832) 131 E.R. 395 (Ch.) - brief details of the case are viewable online on the University of Victoria Faculty of Law (British Columbia, Canada) web site.

S54 The Times, Thursday 6NOV1788, Issue 1164, p2 col C - viewable on-line at the Times Archive, a specialist section of the Times Online website

S68 p 879 of Walford's County Families of the United Kingdom or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, pub Chatto and Windus, London, 1899. - viewable online at Ancestry.co.uk

S87 1851 Census Return for England: HO 107 Piece 1867 fo.100 p.7 sch.23 - viewable at TNA, and also viewable online at ancestry.co.uk

S95 Civil Registration Indexes of Deaths 1860JUL-SEP, St Thomas District vol 5b p456 - image downloadable at ancestry.co.uk

S101 The Times newspaper 23SEP1826, p 3 col 6 - viewable on-line at the Times Archive, a specialist section of the Times Online website.

S109 The Times Newspaper, 17AUG1888, p 11 col 4 - viewable on-line at the Times Archive, a specialist section of the Times Online website.

S111 Wikipedia article on "113th Regiment of Foot (Royal Highlanders)", accessed 6AUG2008].

S112 Elizabeth Lee, "Miller, Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781)", rev. Rebecca Mills, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64753, accessed 5AUG2008].

S113 Victor Mayes, "Miller, Sir John Riggs, first baronet (c.1744–1798)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, OUP, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/64753, accessed 5AUG2008].

S114 Civil Registration Indexes of Marriages 1846OCT-DEC, Kensington District vol 3 p303 - image downloadable at ancestry.co.uk

S115 Civil Registration Indexes of Deaths 1847JUL-SEP, Eastry District vol 5 p89 - image downloadable at ancestry.co.uk

S117 p 956, Volume III of Alumni Oxonienses: The Members of the University of Oxford, by Joseph Foster, pub 1888-1892 by Parker and Co., Oxford - viewable on line at ancestry.co.uk.

S122 p 15 of Memoirs of the Family de Poly, by Antoinette Baroness de Poly, pr and pub 1822 by J. Abel, Northampton - viewable on line at ancestry.co.uk.

S124 Article XI - "African Memoranda, relative to an Attempt to establish a British Settlement on the Island of Bulama, on the Western Coast of Africa, in the Year 1792. By Captain Philip Beaver, of his Majexty's Royal Navy. 4to, Baldwins,1805" reprinted as Article XI on pp 193-202 of The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature, Volume VII, pub London 1806 - viewable on line at Google Book Search

S125 The Irish Town Lands web site maintained by Past Homes Limited

S126 p 269 of An Index to Changes of Name Under Authority of Act of Parliament or Royal Licence...1760 to 1901, comp by W.P.W.Phillimore & Edw.Alex.Fry, pub 1905 by Phillimore & Co, London - downloadable on line at Internet Archive.

S131 The Times Newspaper 24AUG1803, p 3 col 2 - viewable on-line at the Times Archive, a specialist section of the Times Online website.

S133 "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" section on p 3 of the Derby Mercury, Thu.5APR1804, Issue 3756 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S134 "LONDON, April 3" section on p 4 of Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Sat.7APR1804, Issue 2658 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S135 "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" section on p 4 of Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Sat.20AUG1825, Issue 3773 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S138 "Country Markets" section on p 4 of Freeman's Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Sat.7NOV1846 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S139 "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" section on p 4 of Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Sat.24JUL1847, Issue 4917 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S140 "Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries" section on p 8 of The Morning Chronicle (London, England), Sat8SEP1860, Issue 29224 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S141 In List 3 of "Game Lists" on p 2 of Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Sat.6SEP1817, Issue 3359 - image downloadable at 19th Century British Library Newspapers (Gale CENGAGE Learning)

S142 "A List of the Names of the Members of the United Company of Merchants of England, Trading to the East Indies, for the Year 1814" - viewable on line at ancestry.co.uk.

S144 The World newspaper (London), Friday 24AUG1793, Issue 1764 - message posted to a RootsWeb Mailing List 11NOV2009 and viewable online in the Isle-of-Thanet-L Archives

S145 Somerset & Dorset FHS's Somerset Marriages (post-1754) index, viewable online at findmypast.co.uk

S146 p241 of The Records of the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn: The Black Books, Vol IV AD1776 to AD1845, pub 1902 Lincoln's Inn, London - copy examined at Br Lib.

S147 Advanced Search facility on "Access to Archives" section of TNA website, accessed 6AUG2010.

S148 Wikipedia article on "Mining sett", accessed 6AUG2010.

S149 1841 Census Return for England: HO 107 Piece 265 Book 10 fo.5 p.4 - viewable at TNA, and also viewable online at ancestry.co.uk

S150 "The history and antiquities of the County of Somerset" by Rev. John Collinson FAS, printed 1791 by R. Cruttwell, Bath. Vol 1 Bath pp.47-49 - viewable online at Internet Archive (DJVU images 155-157)

S151 ibid. Vol 1 Bath p.50 - viewable online at Internet Archive (DJVU image 158)

S152 ibid. Vol 1 Bath p.64 - viewable online at Internet Archive (DJVU image 172)

S153 ibid. Vol 1 Bath p.65 - viewable online at Internet Archive (DJVU image 173)

S154 ibid. Vol 1 Bath Easton pp.103-105 - viewable online at Internet Archive (DJVU images 295-297)

S155 ibid. Vol 1 Bath Easton p.105 - viewable online at Internet Archive (DJVU image 297)

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