Jane Miller

3 November 1798–1831 (Age 32)
Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, United States

The Life Summary of Jane

When Jane Miller was born on 3 November 1798, in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, United States, her father, Captain Thomas Miller, was 36 and her mother, Hannah Given, was 38. She married Alexander T Fossett in 1817, in Bristol, Lincoln, Maine, United States. She died in 1831, at the age of 33.

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Family Time Line

Alexander Fossett
1803–
Jane Miller
1798–1831
Sally M. Myers Fossett
1823–1828
Hannah Fossett
1829–
Thomas Henry Fossett
1831–1889

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World Events (8)

1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 2
While the growth of the new nation was exponential, the United States didn’t have permanent location to house the Government. The First capital was temporary in New York City but by the second term of George Washington the Capital moved to Philadelphia for the following 10 years. Ultimately during the Presidency of John Adams, the Capital found a permanent home in the District of Columbia.
1804 · Whitehead Light
Age 6
In 1804, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of a light station on Whitehead Island. The light house went into service by 1807. It is the third-oldest light house in Maine. Whitehead Light still exists as the private property of Pine Island Camp, a non-profit organization.
1808
Age 10
Atlantic slave trade abolished.

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.

Possible Related Names

Millar
Mueller
Milner
Millward
McMiller

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