'Mills01'
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Families covered: Mill of Camois Court, Mill of Gretham (Grattam or Grantham), Mill of Mottisfont, Mill of Newton Berry (Newtonbury)
| BEB1841 reports that "The surname of this family was originally written Atte-Mill, Atte-Mull, and Mull, but finally settled down in Mill." We set the page title using 'Mills' as we view that as a more familiar variation nowadays. | |||||||||||||||
| John Atte-Mill or Atmull ("Lord of pt of Grtinham", sic) (a 1367) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Robert Atte-Mull or Mull or Mille of Guildford, Sheriff of Sussex & Surrey (dsp) | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Richard Atte-Mull or Mill (a 1433) | ||||||||||||||
| A. | John Atte-Mull (At Mull) of Nutborne (a 1420, 1433) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | Robert Mill or Mull (a 1447) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | Thomas Mill | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | Richard or Raffe Mill 'of Gretham' | ||||||||||||||
| m. Agnes (Ann) Lewknor (dau of Sir Thomas Lewknor, relict of Andrew Sackville, m3. ?? Kighley/Keghley) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | William Mill of Gretham (Grattam), Sussex | ||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas Mill of Gretham (Grattam) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Furlonge | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Richard Mill of Gretham (Grattam) | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Allice Bowyer (dau of John Bowyer) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Mary Mill | ||||||||||||||
| m2. Margaret Chaloner | |||||||||||||||
| ((2)) | William Mill of Gretham (Grattam) | ||||||||||||||
| m1/2. Margery Rowlston (dau/heir of _ Rowlston of Lichfield) | |||||||||||||||
| ((A)) | Bridget Mill (bpt 03.12.1601, bur 02.11.1636) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (05.06.1627) William Pellett of Bignor | |||||||||||||||
| ((B))+ | other issue - William (b c1631), Ralph (b c1631), William, Richard, John, Henry, Edmond, Francis, Catherine, Mary, Elizabeth, Elizabeth, Barbara | ||||||||||||||
| One of these sons was probably father of ... | |||||||||||||||
| ((i)) | William Mill, last of Gretham (d 06.1729) | ||||||||||||||
| After William death, "this branch terminated in daughters and coheirs." | |||||||||||||||
| m2/1. Bridget Earsfield (dsp, dau of Thomas Earsfield of Holington) | |||||||||||||||
| ((3)) | Mary Mill | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Thomas Mill | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | John Mill of Hampton, Kent (a 1533) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Alice | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Thomas Mill (2nd son) | ||||||||||||||
| (a) | Richard Mill | ||||||||||||||
| (ii) | John Mill of Grentham and/or Newton Bury, Southamptonshire | ||||||||||||||
| John is the first mentioned by BEB1841. | |||||||||||||||
| m. Catherine Lewknor (dau/coheir of Sir Roger Lewknor of Camois Court (by Ellen Mesant), m2. William Morgan) | |||||||||||||||
| (a) | Lewknor Mill of Camois Court (Sussex) & Newtonbury (d 1587) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Cicely Crook (dau of John Crook of Southampton) | |||||||||||||||
| ((1)) | Sir John Mill, 1st Bart of Camois Court (2nd son) - continued below | ||||||||||||||
| m1. (sp) Elizabeth Moore (dau of Sir George Moore of Loseley) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Fleming (dau of Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice) | |||||||||||||||
| ((2))+ | other issue - Lewknot (dvpsp 05.12.1567), John (dsp), Thomas (dsp), Dowsabella, Catharine, Mary, daughter | ||||||||||||||
| (b) | Elizabeth Mill | ||||||||||||||
| m. Henry Bosvyle | |||||||||||||||
| (c) | Mary Mill | ||||||||||||||
| (iii)+ | other issue (dsp) - George, Richard | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Edmund or Edward Mill of Pulborough, Sussex had issue | ||||||||||||||
| His line "terminated in a daughter, married to Nicholas Anstie". | |||||||||||||||
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| Sir John Mill of Camois Court & Newton Berry, 1st Bart (d 07.1648, MP) - continued above | |||||||||||||||
| m1. (24.02.1604/5, sp) Elizabeth Moore (dsp bur 16.03.1605/6, dau of Sir George Moore of Loseley) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. Anne Fleming (dau of Sir Thomas Fleming, Lord Chief Justice) | |||||||||||||||
| 1. | Sir John Mill of Newton Berry (dvp 1642) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Philadelphia Knollys (dau of Sir Henry Knollys of Grove Place, m2. Christopher (Roper), Lord Teynham) | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Sir John Mill of Newton Berry, 2nd Bart (b 1641-2, d 1670) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (by 1660) Margaret Sandys (d by 09.1707, dau of Colonel Henry Sandys of Mottisfont, sister/coheir of Edwyn, last Lord Sandys of the Vine) | |||||||||||||||
| i. | Sir John Mill of Newton Berry then Mottisfont, 3rd Bart, Sheriff of Hampshire (b 01.06.1661, d c1697) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Margaret Grey (d before 10.1692, dau/heir of Thomas Grey of Woolbeding by Mary, dau of Humphrey Steward of Milland in Trotton) | |||||||||||||||
| a. | Sir John Mill of Mottisfont, Newton Berry & Woodbeding, 4th Bart (bpt 09.07.1681, d unm before 02.1705/6) | ||||||||||||||
| b. | Sir Richard Mill, 5th Bart, Sheriff of Southamptonshire (b 1690, d 16.05.1760, MP) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (12.03.1712) Margaret Knollys (b c1688, d 11.10.1744, dau of Robert Knollys of Grove Place) | |||||||||||||||
| Betham reports that Richard was succeeded by Richard then Charles. BEB1841 & TCB show that the baronetcy passed as follows. | |||||||||||||||
| (1) | Sir Richard Mill, 6th Bart (b 1717, d 17.03.1770) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (08.1760) Dorothy Warren (d 06.1811, dau/heir of Richard Warren of Redcliff by Henrietta, dau of Charles Yate of Arlingham Court) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Henrietta Mill (d unm) | ||||||||||||||
| (B) | Sophia Mill of Arlingham Court, Gloucestershire (b 11.1766) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Chevalier Del Caina of Naples | |||||||||||||||
| (2) | Sir John Mill, later Mill-Hoby, 7th Bart (bpt 20.05.1719, dsp 07.1780) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Elizabeth Comyn (d by 05.1792, m2. _ Oxlade) | |||||||||||||||
| (3) | Sir Henry Mill, 8th Bart (bpt 05.01.1729, dsp unm 11.1781, rector of Woolbeding & Kingston Bowsey) | ||||||||||||||
| (4) | Sir Charles Mill, 9th Bart (bpt 08.07.1722, d 10/19.07.1792, Rev.) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (17.11.1763) Mary Windover (d 1800) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | Sir Charles Mill, 10th Bart (b 1765, dsp 26.02.1835) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (01.1800) Selina Morshead (dau of Sir John Morshead, Bart of Trenant Park (by Elizabeth Frederick), m2. William Henry Ashurst) | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | Mary Mill | ||||||||||||||
| m1. Stephen L. Popham (Captain) | |||||||||||||||
| m2. John Barker of Wareham | |||||||||||||||
| (i) | Sir John Barker, later Barker-Mill, Bart of Mottisfont | ||||||||||||||
| (5) | Martha Mill | ||||||||||||||
| m. William Dodsworth | |||||||||||||||
| (6)+ | other issue - Margaret, Philadelphia, Elizabeth, Mary | ||||||||||||||
| c. | Margaret Mill | ||||||||||||||
| m. Robert Knollys of Grove Place (brother of Henry & son of Robert of Grove Place) | |||||||||||||||
| d. | Elizabeth Mill | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sir Thomas Hoby, Bart of Somerby & Bisham (d 25.07.1730) | |||||||||||||||
| e.+ | other issue - Mary (d unm), Philadephia | ||||||||||||||
| 2. | Thomas Mill of Nutshelling, Southamptonshire (d 1664) | ||||||||||||||
| m. (1628) Catherine Mundy (dau/heir of Andrew Mundy of Nutshelling) | |||||||||||||||
| TCB provides the following descent of a claimant of the baronetcy. | |||||||||||||||
| A. | Thomas Mill (d 1706) | ||||||||||||||
| i. | John Mill (b c1666, d 1738) | ||||||||||||||
| a. | John Mill (d 1776) | ||||||||||||||
| (1) | John Mill (b c1756, d 1828, cleric) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Sarah Guiver (dau of John Guiver) | |||||||||||||||
| (A) | (Sir) John Frederick Mill (b 29.03.1810, d unm 1844) | ||||||||||||||
| TCB reports that John never assumed the Baronetcy but that, in or soon after 1844, his brother George did. George does not appear in BP1869. | |||||||||||||||
| (B) | 'Sir' George Mill, 'Bart' (b 17.05.1812, a 1860) | ||||||||||||||
| 3. | Edward Mill of Eling, Southamptonshire (5th son) | ||||||||||||||
| m. Jane Burgess (dau of Thomas Burgess of Byson) | |||||||||||||||
| A.+ | 2 daughters | ||||||||||||||
| 4.+ | other issue (d unm) - Anthony (d young), Richard of Oxford, Lewknor of Plaitford (Partford), George (d young), Wiliam (d young) | ||||||||||||||
Main source(s): 'Baronetage of England' (Betham, vol 1 (1801), '#27. Mill of Camois Court, Sussex', p173+), 'Baronetage of England' (Wottton, Kimber & Johnson, vol 1 (1771), #35. Mill of Camois-Court, Sussex', p167+) with support for the upper section from Visitation (Sussex, 1530+1633-4, 'Mill') and for the lower section from BEB1841 ('Mill of Camois Court'), TCB (vol 1, 'Mill of Camois Court', p132+)
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