Edith Gertrude Mills

Femaleabout September 1900–

Brief Life History of Edith Gertrude

When Edith Gertrude Mills was born about September 1900, in Islington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom, her father, Fred Mills, was 45 and her mother, ALICE MATILDA WHITE, was 42.

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Family Time Line

Fred Mills
1855–
ALICE MATILDA WHITE
1858–
Ellen Elizabeth Mills
1879–
Edith Gertrude Mills
1900–
Alice L Mills
1881–
Frederick Edwin W Mills
1882–
Annie F Mills
1885–
Sarah Mabel Mills
1887–
Thomas Chas Mills
1890–
Lilian Maud Mills
1893–

Sources (1)

  • Edith Gertrude Mills in household of Fred Mills, "England and Wales Census, 1901"

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Siblings (8)

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World Events (8)

1904 · The Entente Cordiale

Age 4

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.

1908

Age 8

London, United Kingdom hosts Summer Olympic Games.

1939 · Britain Enters World War II

Age 39

Britain entered the Second World War as war was declared on Germany on September 3, 1939. World War II came to an end after the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, which killed 140,000 people. Less than a week later, the Japanese surrendered and the war officially ended on August 15, 1945.

Name Meaning

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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