Brief Life History of James Henry John
When James Henry John Miller was born on 9 May 1874, in Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom, his father, William Grover, was 43 and his mother, Sarah Ann Miller, was 32. He married Mary Jane Wenham on 5 August 1893, in Danehill, Sussex, England, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Danehill, Sussex, England, United Kingdom for about 10 years and Cuckfield, Sussex, England, United Kingdom in 1939. He died in 1921, in Newhaven, Sussex, England, United Kingdom, at the age of 47.
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- James Verney Miller in household of Sarah Ann Miller, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- Legacy NFS Source: James Verney Miller - Government record: Census record: birth: 1870; Kent, England, United Kingdom
- James Vornon J Miller, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
School attendance became compulsory from ages five to ten on August 2, 1880.
1884
Art Nouveau Period (Art and Antiques).
1904 · The Entente Cordiale
The Entente Cordiale was signed between Britain and France on April 8, 1904, to reconcile imperial interests and pave the way for future diplomatic cooperation. This ended hundreds of years of conflict between the two states.
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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