Brief Life History of Martha
When Martha Miller was born in 1745, in Berks, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Stephen Miller Sr., was 49 and her mother, Johanna Parker, was 26. She married Philip Dold on 24 February 1767, in Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 3 daughters. She died in 1782, at the age of 37.
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- M Dold, "Virginia, Library of Virginia State Archive, Births, Marriages, and Deaths 1853-1900"
- Martha Miller, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
- Martha Miller in entry for Philip Told, "Pennsylvania, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Marriage Records, 1512-1989"
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1752
Historical Boundaries 1752: Berks, Pennsylvania Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Berks, Pennsylvania, United States
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1776
The Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia on July 4, 1776. The liberty bell was first rung here to Celebrate this important document.
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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