Background
The son of James Miller (1775–1855) from Wick, by his spouse Elizabeth (d 1862), daughter of Reverend William Sutherland, minister in Wick, he followed in his father"s footsteps as a merchant trading in Imperial Russia.
The son of James Miller (1775–1855) from Wick, by his spouse Elizabeth (d 1862), daughter of Reverend William Sutherland, minister in Wick, he followed in his father"s footsteps as a merchant trading in Imperial Russia.
In an Ordinary of Scottish Arms (by Sir James Balfour Paul, Edinburgh 1903), the arms of William Miller, merchant, Street.Petersburg (1853), were given as Argent, a cross moline azure square-pierced of the field within a bordure gules, on a chief of the last a garb between two mullets or. Sir James Miller, 2nd Baronet of Manderston. Sir John Alexander Miller, 3rd Baronet of Manderston.
Amy Elizabeth, who later inherited Manderston.
Eveline (d1946), married (1) 1866, Richard Hunter of Thurston, East Lothian (d 1910). (2) 1919, Alfred Mitchell-Innes, of the Diplomatic Service (1864 - 1950).
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On 11 November 1858 Sir William Miller married Mary Anne, daughter of John Farley Leith, Queen"s Counsel, Member of Parliament for Aberdeen, and they had issue:.