Author: Mills, Elizabeth Willesford
Biography:
MILLS, Elizabeth Willesford, later BORRON (1799-1873: ancestry.co.uk)
She was baptised Elizabeth Willesford Dewindt Mills on 2 July 1799 at Bishops Hill, Somerset, the daughter of William Maynard Mills (1777-1857) and his wife Elizabeth Willesford (1773-1849). Her father co-inherited the Old Windward and Potwork estates on Nevis and later received over £2000 in compensation. Her sister Adriana married John Arthur Borron (Jr.) on 23 February 1835 at Newcastle. They later emigrated to America and settled in Macon County, Missouri. Elizabeth married his father, a magistrate, and owner of Woolden Hall, Lancs., on 13 Apr. 1835. A daughter, Florence, was born the following year. After the deaths of her mother and husband in 1849, she appears to have gone to live with her brother Francis, a physician, at Bleathwood, Little Hereford. Her elderly father and two other brothers also lived there. At some point after 1851 she emigrated with her daughter to America and settled in Kansas City MO, where she died in Dec. 1873. In addition to Sibyl’s Leaves (1826), she wrote A Mother’s Reminiscences of a Course of Reading and Instruction (1839), addressed to her daughter, and contributed a poem to Friendship’s Offering (1829). (ancestry.co.uk 15 Aug. 2020; GM Sept. 1798, 808; Monthly Magazine Mar. 1809, 214; "William Maynard Mills," LBS; Durham County Advertiser 13 Mar. 1835; Newcastle Journal 18 Apr. 1835;Worcester Journal 25 Jan. 1849, 14 Mar. 1857; Shrewsbury Chronicle 10 Aug. 1849; Kansas City Times 14 Dec. 1873; The Admission Register of Manchester School [1868] 2: 120) AA