Brief Life History of John Philip
When John Philip Miller was born in 1798, in Halifax, Nova Scotia, British North America, his father, John Henry Miller, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Farrell, was 33. He married Lucy Reeves on 10 August 1837, in Dartmouth, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 6 daughters. In 1866, at the age of 68, his occupation is listed as farmer in Waverley, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. He died on 27 March 1868, in Waverley, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, at the age of 70.
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- 1851 Canada Census, Philip Miller family
- Philip, "Canada, Nova Scotia Marriages, 1864-1918"
- Phillip Miller, "Canada, Nova Scotia Deaths, 1864-1877"
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1820 · Cape Breton Island
In 1820, Cape Breton Island rejoined Nova Scotia. It is located on the Northeastern part of Nova Scotia. Until then it had been owned by the French until 1763. Than was in British control and a separate colony in 1784.
1823
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1848 · Self-Governing
In 1848, Nova Scotia became the first self-governing colony in the British Empire.
Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.
Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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In a book called Dear Reader The History of Fall River and Windsor Junction By The Friendly Group Seniors History Club, published in 1989, page 11 we read: On March 27, 1814, a grant of land was give …
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