When William Miles was born on 9 February 1825, in Miami, Ohio, United States, his father, William Jules Miles, was 36 and his mother, Mary Marie Pearson, was 32. He married Elizabeth Hoover on 21 November 1850, in West Branch MM, Miami, Ohio, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 daughters. He lived in Iowa, United States in 1870 and West Branch, Cedar, Iowa, United States for about 5 years. He died on 16 December 1904, in Rialto, San Bernardino, California, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Rialto Park Cemetery, Rialto, San Bernardino, California, United States.
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English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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