Brief Life History of Ada Elizabeth
When Ada Elizabeth Miller was born on 25 May 1841, in Farndon, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom, her father, Paul Miller II, was 32 and her mother, Elizabeth Dutton, was 35. She married Andrew J. Forester on 2 August 1860, in Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 3 daughters. She died on 17 December 1883, in Columbus, Columbia, Wisconsin, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in York Cemetery, Carroll, Illinois, United States.
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- Ada Miller in household of Paul Miller, "England and Wales Census, 1841"
- Ada E. Forester 2nd marriage to Charles Mills, "Wisconsin Marriages, 1836-1930"
- Ada Miller in death of dau Clara M Douglas, "Minnesota Deaths, 1887-2001"
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1843
Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
1846
Historical Boundaries: 1846: Columbia, Wisconsin Territory, United States 1848: Columbia, Wisconsin, United States
1854 · The Crimean War
The Crimean War was fought between Russia and an alliance of Britain, France, Sardinia and Turkey on the Crimean Peninsula. Russia had put pressure on Turkey which threatened British interests in the Middle East.
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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