When Derwent Maurice Miles was born on 24 March 1860, in St Margaret, Westminster, Middlesex, England, his father, John Henry William Miles, was 34 and his mother, Eliza Horne, was 27. He married Emily Hall on 9 July 1881, in Streatham, Surrey, England. He lived in Battersea, Surrey, England in 1891 and Wandsworth, London, England, United Kingdom in 1911. He died in March 1938, in Croydon, Surrey, England, at the age of 78.
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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.
Possible Related NamesDerwent Miles was my grandfather’s half brother. His brother, John Horne Miles, brought my grandfather, his mother and the rest of the family to the Unites States. My grand father was George E. Miles, …
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