Samuel Mills Esq (abt. 1796 - 1869)

Born about 1796 in Turnings, County Kildare, Ireland

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Died 7 Jun 1869 at about age 73 in Turnings, County Kildare, Ireland

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Biography

Samuel Mills was born 1795/1796. ^[1][2][3]

He was the son of Samuel Mills Esq (of Turnings, County Kildare) & Charlotte Adair (based on matching name and residence).

He resided Turnings. ^[1][4]

He was an Esquire. ^[4]

He was the brother of:

• Charles Mills of Little Rath. ^[4]
• John Mills. Died 1826. ^[1]
• Henry Mills. Died 1852. ^[1]

In 1821 he was High Sheriff of County Kildare (same as his grandfather was). ^[5]

In 1830 he was elected to the Kildare (fox) Hunt Club. ^[6][7]

In 1831 he married Anne Maunsell.^[8] Her family owned more land than the Mills' did.^[9]

In 1833 he was recorded paying tithe (tax) on his agricultural produce to the Church of Ireland. ^[10]

In 1839 he was recorded leasing land^[11], some of which was due to have 800 metres of railroad built upon it.^[12][13]

In 1841, after ten years of marriage, his eldest son, Samuel Mills, was born.

Samuel died aged 73, Turnings 07 June 1869. ^{[2][3][4][14][15][16]}

Samuel's gravestone was 6 feet in height. It broke in to more than six pieces.

• 1983^[1] transcription: ^[17]

This stone was erected by Samuel Mills of Turnings to Hugh Geoghan and Atty Clowery. Also his brother Henry who died 21st August 1852, aged 57 years. Here also lieth Samuel Mills Esq. Of Turnings who erected this stone in place of an older one which bore the date AD 1600. He departed in peace this 7th June 1869 aged 73 years.

• 2016 transcription: ^[1]

This stone was erected by Samuel Mills Esq. of Turnings to replace an old one Sacred to the memory of his Great Grand Father, Grand Father and Grand Mother and also in memory of his own Mother and Father who died September 1817, his own Brother John ____ deceased June 1826 and also John Mills who died March 17th 1831 aged 62 years. Also his Brother Henry who died 21st August 1852, aged 62 years. Here also lies Samuel Mills Esq. of Turnings who erected this stone in place of an older one which bore the date AD 1600. He departed in peace this life 7th June 1869 aged 73 years.

His will of £50,000 was contested by his relatives. ^[18]

Research Notes

Another fox hunter appearing on the list was John Mills Foster of Killibegs^[6], which is 10km west of Turnings. Was this a son of one of Samuel's aunts?

In 1833, one of the residents of Turnings was Robert Atkinson.^[10] Robert's grandson, Arthur Atkinson, was so enamoured with the new railroad that he emigrated to the USA to work on the railroads there.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5} Le Chéile Community Magazine, number 341, January 2016, http://clanecommunity.ie/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/LeCheile2016JanuaryBooklet.pdf
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Cork Examiner Cork, 10 June 1869, http://www.genesreunited.co.za/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=turnings%20kildare%20mills&type=familynotice

   Mills—June 7, at his residence, Turnings, co. Kildare, Samuel Mills, Esq., aged 73 years.

3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1} J N S Reid, List of Burials in St Michaels & All Angels Churchyard Clane Co Kildare For the period 1804 - 1984, 1985, http://www.thestewartsinireland.ie/author/georgevstewart1/page/3/

   Mills, Samuel, Turnings, A 73, 1869

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} "Ireland Calendar of Wills and Administrations, 1858-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1951-23406-9364-0?cc=1921305 : accessed 4 December 2015), Calendar of Wills and Administrations > 1870-1871 > image 207 of 656; Principal Probate Registry, Dublin.

   to Charles Mills of Little Rath Sallins County Kildare Esquire the Brother

5. ↑ High Sheriff of Kildare. (2015, August 13). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 14:31, December 1, 2015, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=High_Sheriff_of_Kildare&oldid=675943735, citing Papers by Command-Great Britain, Parliament, House of Commons-Volume 16
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1} Dermot Bourke, A History of the Kildare Hunt, 1913, https://books.google.fr/books?id=8qcyDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT78
7. ↑ https://www.myheritage.com/research/collection-90100/compilation-of-published-sources?itemId=6592185&action=showRecord
8. ↑ The National Magazine and Dublin Literary Gazette, volume 2, page 373, marriages,https://books.google.gr/books?id=pYlFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA373

   Samuel Mills, Esq. to Anne, second daughter of Richard Maunsell, Esq.

9. ↑ https://ardclough.wordpress.com/an-ardclough-timeline/

   1876: [...] John Maunsell of Oakley Park 1,309 acres; Samuel Mills of Turnings 1,142 acres;

10. ↑ ^{10.0 10.1} Tithe Appointment Books, National Archives of Ireland, http://titheapplotmentbooks.nationalarchives.ie/search/tab/results.jsp?county=Kildare&parish=Whitechurch&townland=Lower%20Turnings&search=Search
11. ↑ http://kildare.ie/Library/KildareCollectionsandResearchServices/votersregister/browse-all.asp?BrowseLink=ahnlqunyrigy&offset=3230
12. ↑ Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, volume 46, page 241, https://books.google.gr/books?id=A1sSAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA19-PP5

    AN ALPHABETICAL LIST of the Names of all Persons through whose Property the proposed Line of Railroad between the Cities of Dublin and Cork and Limerick is intended to pass [...] Hospital, Wilson's, and Samuel Mills, Esq | 4 Furlongs 14 Feet | Kildare

13. ↑ The London Gazette, issue 19440, 24 November 1836, page 2216, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/19440/page/2216

    an Act for making and maintaining a railway, or railways, from Dublin to Kilkenny [...] should pass from, in, through, and into the several parishes, townlands, or sub-denominations following [...] Turnings

14. ↑ Obituary, Dublin Evening Mail, 11 June 1869, http://www.genesreunited.co.za/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=samuel%20ryan&type=familynotice&page=1
15. ↑ Dublin Evening Mail, 08 June 1869

    Mills - June 7, his residence, Turnings, county of Kildare, Samuel Mills, Esq., aged 73 years. [His remains will removed from his late residence on Thursday, the 10th inst., at 11 o'clock, for interment at Clane.]

16. ↑ Dublin Evening Mail, 11 June 1869

    Mills - June 7, at his residence, Turnings, county of Kildare, Samuel Mills, Esq., aged 73, deeply and deservedly regretted his family and friends. His end was peace.

17. ↑ P J Killick, Clane Abbey Graveyard Inscriptions, 2004, citing "Know Your Clane series in Le Chéile", http://homepage.eircom.net/~claneonline/inscriptions2.2.html#Mills
18. ↑ Dublin Evening Mail, 19 November 1869, https://www.findmypast.co.uk/