Brief Life History of David
When David Miller was born on 17 October 1839, in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, his father, John Miller, was 41 and his mother, Ann Humphrey, was 39. He married Elizabeth Ann Davies on 26 June 1867, in Ystrad, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He lived in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom for about 20 years. In 1871, his occupation is listed as coal miner in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, United Kingdom. He died on 14 October 1896, in Springville, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 56, and was buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Springville, Utah, Utah, United States.
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- Dana Miller in household of John Miller, "England and Wales Census, 1871"
- David Miller, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
- David Miller, "England and Wales Marriage Registration Index, 1837-2005"
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World Events (8)
1846
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
1850
Historical Boundaries: 1850: Mexican Cession, United States 1850: Utah Territory, United States 1851: Utah, Utah Territory, United States 1896: Utah, Utah, United States
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
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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