Miller Lane and the open area opposite St Andrew's church - Miller Green - got their names from the Miller family who lived nearby in the 18th and 19th centuries.  The  family grave is situated near the church entrance where Joseph and Agnes and their son, John Joseph who predeceased them both, are buried.

In 1820, John Miller -  who was the first tax collector for Cottam and Ingol - had his picture painted by a Fr Haydock.

This Fr Haydock - another name linked with Cottam - was not a resident priest at St Andrew's so it seems likely that he was visiting his family at the time.

The picture is still in existence and it has kindly been made available for publication here by Richard Miller who is the great, great, great, great grandson of the above Joseph and Agnes.

Richard is a parishioner of St Andrew's and therefore his family's association with the church goes back almost 250 years to a time well before the present chapel was built.  Quite remarkable.

Richard owns two paintings by the same artist and believes there is at least another one still in existence which he thinks has a Whitby connection and this means there is an interesting footnote to this story in that the priest who painted the picture of John Miller was, in fact, the famous Fr George Leo Haydock - not to be confused with Blessed George Haydock - who was born in Cottam in 1774 and lived at The Tagg.  Although the above painting is merely signed "Fr Haydock", the other one includes the initials "GL".

Fr George Leo Haydock served as a priest in and around the Whitby area in Yorkshire, at Westby in Lancashire and then - after a period of time when he was suspended from saying Mass and exercising his priestly duties because of a dispute - his faculties were restored and he spent the last ten years of his life at Penrith.  He died there in 1849 and was buried in a church he built but which,  unfortunately, he did not live to see completed.

Overall, Fr Haydock must have been quite a character and a man of many talents with his chief publication being a new edition of the English translation of the Latin Vulgate first published at Reims in 1582 and at Douai in 1609.

On the right is the second painting by Fr George Haydock which Richard Miller owns.  The signature is clearly
G L Haydock and the date is 1822.

More detailed information about Fr George Haydock can be found by typing "Fr George Leo Haydock" into search engines such as Yahoo or Google.