When George Mill was born in 1850, his father, George Mill, was 34 and his mother, Mary Ann Van Camp, was 27. He died in September 1852, in Mountain, Stormont Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 2.
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Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, from Middle English mille, melle, mulle ‘mill’ (assimilated forms of Old English mylen). It was usually in effect an occupational name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill, whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of payment.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Mill, a short form of Millicent (compare Millett ) or perhaps from a variant of the Middle English male personal name Mile (see Miles ).
Dutch (Van Mill): habitational name from Mill in North Brabant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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