Sarah Jane Mills

Female27 June 1817–9 December 1849

Brief Life History of Sarah Jane

When Sarah Jane Mills was born on 27 June 1817, in Yarmouth Centre, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, her father, James Mills, was 23 and her mother, Jemima Huff, was 23. She married Hiram Burley Smith on 5 January 1836, in London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. She lived in Yarmouth Township, Elgin, Ontario, Canada in 1871. She died on 9 December 1849, in Sparta, Elgin, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 32.

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Family Time Line

Hiram Burley Smith
1811–1874
Sarah Jane Mills
1817–1849
Marriage: 5 January 1836
Isaac Huff Smith
1836–1904
Byron Smith
1838–
Oscar Mills Smith
1846–1913

Sources (6)

  • Sarah Jane Mills in household of Abram Mills, "Canada Census, 1871"
  • Sarah Mills, "Ontario, District Marriage Registers, 1801-1858"
  • Sarah Mills in entry for Oscar Smith and Mary A Zavitz, "Ontario, County Marriage Registers, 1858-1869"

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    5 January 1836London, Ontario, Canada West, British Colonial America
  • Children (3)

    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings (6)

    +1 More Child

    Name Meaning

    English: variant of Mill 1, with excrescent -s added in post-medieval times. Compare Mullins , from a French equivalent of this name, and see also Milnes .

    English: either a variant of Miles , a variant of Mill 2, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or Myhill , with post-medieval excrescent -s.

    Irish: this is usually the English name, especially in Ulster, but elsewhere in Ireland it was also adopted for the Gaelic topographic byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.

    Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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