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, Canada West, British North 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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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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