Brief Life History of Catharine
When Catharine Miller was born on 7 December 1818, in Guilford Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, Soloman Miller, was 37 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Shearer, was 25. She had at least 1 son and 4 daughters with Fredrick Smith. She lived in Chambersburg, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States for about 10 years and Waynesboro, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States in 1860. She died on 7 December 1818, in Marion, Guilford Township, Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States, at the age of 0, and was buried in Franklin, Pennsylvania, United States.
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- Catharine Smith in household of Frederick Smith, "United States Census, 1850"
- Catharine Smith in household of Fredk Smith, "United States Census, 1860"
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Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English term miller, an agent derivative of mille ‘mill’, reinforced by Old Norse mylnari (see Milner ). In southern, western, and central England Millward (literally, ‘mill keeper’) was the usual term. In North America, the surname Miller has absorbed many cognate surnames from other languages, for example German Müller (see Mueller ), Dutch Mulder and Molenaar , French Meunier , Italian Molinaro , Spanish Molinero , Hungarian Molnár (see Molnar ), Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian Mlinar , Polish Młynarz or Młynarczyk (see Mlynarczyk ). Miller (including in the senses below) is the seventh most frequent surname in the US.
South German, Swiss German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller ‘miller’ (see Mueller ) and, in North America, also an altered form of this. This form of the surname is also found in other European countries, notably in Poland, Denmark, France (mainly Alsace and Lorraine), and Czechia; compare 3 below.
Americanized form of Polish, Czech, Croatian, Serbian, and Slovenian Miler ‘miller’, a surname of German origin.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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