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MILNE, Thomas 2 (1782?-1846) — London
Engraver, lettering engraver & printer. Engraved James Donaldson, Plans of the parish church, of St. George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex 1817; the lettering for Henry Parke & Joseph John Scoles, Map of Nubia comprising the country between the First and Second Cataracts of the Nile 1829.
Born in London about 1782 and quite possibly to be identified with the Thomas Mylne, son of Robert and Mary Mylne, born 4 Jul 1782 and baptised 23 Aug 1782 at St. James Clerkenwell, or perhaps his brother John Thomas Mylne born 22 Jul 1783 and baptised 29 Aug 1783 at the same church. He was resident in Bedford Street in 1841 with his common-law wife and housekeeper Hannah Byam and their daughter. He died of apoplexy at home 17 Sep 1846 aged sixty-four and was buried at St. Faith under St. Paul 4 Oct 1846. His unwitnessed will in NA (PROB 11/668/401), evidently written at sea on a slip of paper at a moment of perceived danger on a return journey from Scotland and Newcastle, left almost everything to Olive Hall, a milliner of St. Paul’s Churchyard and his family. Hall had married Elizabeth Milne, presumably Milne’s sister, in 1808. The sum of £200 was set aside for the upkeep of his daughter, Mary Ann, born in 1836. She was baptised Mary Ann Milne aged ten at St. Andrew Holborn 31 Dec 1846, but neither she nor her mother have been further traced. The will was authenticated by the architectural bookseller John Weale of High Holborn, the engraver James Richardson of Shoe Lane, and Olive Hall himself.
19 Bedford Street, Bedford Row — 1826-1846
BBTI. BM. BNA. Census 1841. NA.