Mary Catherine Mills

Brief Life History of Mary Catherine

When Mary Catherine Mills was born on 19 January 1887, in Webb City, Jasper, Missouri, United States, her father, John Howard Mills, was 29 and her mother, Mary Catherine Smith, was 33. She married Harry Holyoke Faust on 14 February 1910, in Orange, California, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years and San Antonio Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 5 years. She died on 31 August 1972, in Los Angeles, California, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Inglewood, Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Family Time Line

Harry Holyoke Faust
1887–1949
Mary Catherine Mills
1887–1972
Marriage: 14 February 1910
Mary Adeline Faust
1910–2007
Mahlon Ellsworth Faust
1913–1987

Sources (21)

  • Mary Faust in household of H H Faust, "United States Census, 1910"
  • Mary C Mills, "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952"
  • Mary C Faust, "California Death Index, 1940-1997"

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Name Meaning

English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .

English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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