Person:James Milliken (10)

James Milliken Esq., of Milliken

• The Regarde Bien - Issue No. 18 - Major James Milliken of Milliken - Milliken-Napier Pedigree^S3

2. "James MILLIKEN, Esq. of MILLIKEN, b. 1710, Island of Nevis, West Indies; m. April 21, 1734, Jean MacDowall, only daughter of Alexander MacDowall 16th of Garthland and Jean Fergusson daughter of Sir John Fergusson of Kilkerran; succeeded to his father estates in Scotland and St. Kitts in the West Indies in 1741; partner in the South Sugar House in Glasgow; made large improvements to Milliken estate; d. June 7, 1776; had issue:^S3

i. James MILLIKEN, b. August 17, 1742, at Milliken; matriculated University of Glasgow in 1754, art dealer in Florence, Italy, in 1762; d. unmarried, April 9, 1763, buried at the Old Protestant Cemetery near San Niccolo Del Lido in Venice, Italy.^S3

ii. Alexander MILLIKEN, b. January 17, 1744, at Milliken, matriculated University of Glasgow in 1754; d. unmarried, October 1765 in Paris, France.^S3

iii. Jean MacDowall MILLIKEN, b. at Milliken, m. July 10, 1764, at Milliken, William NAPIER of Culcreuch, Stirlingshire (was under age at his father’s death in 1735), son of John Napier and Margaret Lennox of Culcreuch; husband died April 1773. Col. Napier was descended from Robert Napier of Culcreuch, third son of John Napier of Merchiston (1550-1617), the celebrated Scottish mathematician and inventor of logarithms. Served to her father in 1779, died leaving issue:^S3

iv. Mary MILLIKEN, b. at Milliken; m. Dr. Nathaniel SPENS, physician in Edinburgh, son of Thomas Spens, 15th Baron of Lathallan and Janet Douglas, daughter of Sir Robert Douglas of Glenbervie, Baronet. Nathaniel purchased the estate of Craigsanquhar, Fife, in 1792, was President of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh 1794-96, President of Council, Royal College of Archers (King's Body Guard for Scotland) 1809, member from 1750, Adj-Gen. 1810, (his portrait, painted for Royal College by Sir Henry Raeburn, now hangs in Archer's Hall), matriculated arms at Lyon Office, 1764, and died June 21, 1815. Mary died on March 3, 1774 at Drumdryan House in Edinburgh, leaving issue:^S3

(Source) Freepages, Genealogy, Rootsweb, Ancestry.com^S3

1.   James Milliken, of Milliken, in Lundy, Darryl. The Peerage: A genealogical survey of the peerage of Britain as well as the royal families of Europe.
2.   Holsoe, Svend E. Sempill of Saint Croix, Vigin Islands.
   
3.   Alan Milliken's Genealogical Home Page, in Regarde Bien
   2001.

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