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
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
1811–1874 Male
1817–1849 Female
Children (3)
1836–1904 Male
1838– Male
1846–1913 Male
Parents and Siblings
1793–1853 Male
1794–1869 Female
Siblings (6)
1815–1862 Male
1817–1849 Female
1819–1899 Female
1821–1856 Female
1824–1910 Male
+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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