When Polly Miller was born on 7 November 1860, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States, her father, Owen Miller, was 33 and her mother, Matilda Puckett, was 30. She married Dock Franklin Spencer on 13 March 1895, in Breathitt, Kentucky, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Torrent, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States in 1910. She died on 14 March 1920, in Winchester, Clark, Kentucky, United States, at the age of 59, and was buried in Rogers, Wolfe, Kentucky, United States.
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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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