When Balfour Mills was born on 24 December 1840, in Mills Mills, Hume, Allegany, New York, United States, his father, William Webster Mills, was 42 and his mother, Maria Griggs, was 39. He married Adelaide Victoria Peck on 26 January 1864, in Rossburg, Hume, Allegany, New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in New York, United States in 1865 and Hume, Allegany, New York, United States for about 45 years. He died on 17 May 1919, in Wiscoy, Hume, Allegany, New York, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Hume, Allegany, New York, United States.
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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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