Brief Life History of Abraham
When Abraham Miller was born on 14 February 1794, in Moore Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States, his father, John Miller, was 37 and his mother, Catherine Mack, was 34. He died on 20 August 1795, at the age of 1, and was buried in Plainfield Cemetery, Plainfield Township, Northampton, Pennsylvania, United States.
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Family Time Line
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- Abraham Miller, "Find A Grave Index"
Parents and Siblings
1757–1834 Male
1759– Female
Siblings (6)
1781–1797 Female
1783– Female
1788– Female
1791– Male
1794–1795 Male
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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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