There were very few Trotman's in Virginia in the 1600's; and only a few thousand are America even in modern times:
1704: An Anne Trotman is listed in Charles City County (north side of James River just south of New Kent Co. & just west of James City Co.) on the 1704 Virginia Rent Roles (likely a widow or daughter of a male Trotman). She is the ONLY "Trotman" (or "Trotter") listed in the 1704 Virginia Rent Roles. Mary Trotman's daughter, Elizabeth Miller-1412 was born in New Kent County, Virginia (same area as the Anne Trotman noted above).
"August 1662. Thomas Trottman, bound to Elias Trottman for 5 yeeres in Maryland." (see link below) . If the Thomas Trotman-163 on WilkiTree, he would have been about 8 years old in 1662. There is also a note on same link (p.105): "Thomas Trottman; destination, Maryland." The link is for a book:
"Bristol and America: A Record of the First Settlers in the Colonies of North..."
1656: There is a possibility that the Nicholas "Trott (sic) [Trotter?]" who is noted as "sonn" and witnessed James Miller's 1656 will (husband of Mary Trotman) was Nicholas Trotman-47 (b-1/19/1619 in Gloucestershire, England) during a trip to Virginia. Nicholas Trotman ["Trott (sic)"] witnessed on 5/6/1656 and was an oath on the probate on 6/24/1656 of James Miller's will. Mary Trotman-129 and Nicholas Trotman-47 were 2nd cousins and likely were both about 37 years old in 1656. Nicholas Trotman's children died in Gloucestershire, England so I assume he was only on a trip to Virginia in 1656.
https://memory.loc.gov/service/gdc/scd0001/2008/20080313002co/20080313002co.pdf
1634 birth of Nicholas Trotman: A "Nicholas Trotman, of Nibley, yeoman, aged 40, and Mary Harding, of the parish of Hawksbury, aged 30" marry on 5/24/1675 in Gloucestershire, England (see link above; page 24). This Nicholas Trotman would likely be a cousin of Mary Trotman (wife of James Miller) since several of Mary Trotman's family were from Nibley. This Nicholas Trotman would have been 22 years old in 1656 when a "Nicholas Trott (sic) [Trotter?]" was a witness to James Miller's will in York County, Virginia. He may have later returned to England (but could have been a different Nicholas Trotman that witnessed James Miller's 1656 will).
Mary (Trotman) Miller's father may have been named Edward Trotman. She may have had a brother named Nicholas Trotman.
The below timeline hopefully will take the reader through the tie of Mary, wife of James Miller in Virginia to the Trotman family in Nibley, England.
1/2/1636 or 1637: A James Miller is noted in the Extracts from the records of the burgh of Glasgow....1630-1662. In a document related to licenses for the retailing of TOBACCO along with 9 other persons:
Whereas Henry Gosper servant to Mary Miller confest in Court hee hath at severall times runne away att least two yeares Itt is Ordered according to Act of Assembly that at expiracon of his service due by Indenture hee double ye said tearme & serve Foure Compleat yeares for his said running away
Source: York County Deeds, Orders, and Wills (3) f. 57.
10/3/1697: Source: "Middlesex County, Virginia Wills, Inventories & Accounts, 1673-1812" published in 1989:
"(p. 110) John Sheppard....3 Oct 1682 / 7 Feb 1697... Son John Sheppard and daughter Frances Sheppard (both underage). Wife Frances Sheppard. Daughter Clara Sheppard. Brother Mr. Alexander Sheppard in Parham - Latcheston In Suffolk CO in England. Goddaughter Frances Mackrory and godson Robert Williamson. Godson Richard Robinson and goddaughter Ann Robinson. Kinsman Mr. Richard Robinson, brother Mr. Christopher Robinson and Mr. Alexander Smith. Exors: Wife and son. Wit: Thomas Hucklescott (?), Joseph Smith and EDWARD MILLER (Thomas Hucklescott and Joseph Smith appeared at the probate in 1697)." EDWARD MILLER may not have appeared at the probate due to the fact he likely past away several years after the will was written but prior to when it was probated.
NOTE: Parham, Suffolk County, England is 100 miles northeast of London near the North Sea about 150 miles due west of the Netherlands/Belgium across the sea.
NOTE: It is estimated that the Edward Miller I on this profile died about 1695; so he would not have been around to sign John Sheppard's will's probate in 1697 as noted above (another indication that the Edward Miller on this profile is the Edward Miller that witnessed John Sheppard's will in 1682).
MORE INFO. on THROCKMORTON TROTMAN:
1663: The above gives a copy of Throckmorton Trotman's 1663 London will which he notes a cousin Edward Trotman whose daughter is in Virginia. Mary Trotman, wife of James Miller would be in her mid 40's in 1663. Her husband James Miller died in Virginia in 1656.
Throgmorton Trotman was invested in the “Merchant Adventurers of England” (left 600 pounds to the organization in his 1663 will), a large merchant investment company formed to develop overseas trade and colonies in the New World (similar to the London Company of Adventures, which later split into the Virginia Company settling Jamestown and the Plymouth Company which settled New England). So the Totman’s would be quite interested in the Virginia colony.
Mary Trotman & James Miller's daughter Elizabeth "Isabella" Miller who married John Lewis, Jr. had a grand daughter named Mary Lewis b-1709 who married a THROCKMORTON. This is a possible tie of the family to the THROCKMORTON's who Throckmorton Trotman (who noted the daughter of his cousin Edward Trotman was in Virginia in his 1663 London will) may have descended from the THROCKMORTON's given his 1st name was THROCKMORTON.
From link above: page 35 on "The Trotman Family"; Entries in Cam Register; Edited by W. P. W. Phillimore; printed by John White, Stroud, Gloucestershire in 1892; a possible Edward Trotman (father of Mary Trotman) will appears:
"Edward Trotman, of Slymbridge, yeoman, 11 May, 1618. To Marie Tratman, my eldest daughter, L60, under 21; my daughter, Alse; younger daughter, Alice L40, under 21. Residue to Richard Trotman, my son and heir. He to be executor. Overseers --- Thomas Davies and Richard Trotman, my brother and brother-in-law. To my son, Edward, my right in a lease, dated, 12 Oct., 2 Edward VI. Witnesses- John Wilkins, Thomas Wilkins, and William England. Proved at Gloucester, 3 June, 1618." The "Marie Tratman" maybe Mary Trotman (wife of James Miller); however she likely was born a bit earlier than James Miller if he was the James Miller who arrived in Virginia in 1635 at age 18 (so James would have been born about 1617). Of course the James Miller that arrived in Virginia in 1635 at age 18 may not be the same James Miller that arrived two years later with his wife Mary (who I think was Mary Trotman). "Marie Tratman" was likely born between 1600 and 1615; since she was under 21 in May, 1618 and had a younger sister (Alice) born prior to May, 1618.
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