Brief Life History of Joseph Vincent
When Joseph Vincent Mills was born on 1 September 1848, in Canada, his father, Joseph Mills, was 40 and his mother, Jemima Puttock, was 38. He married Eliza Ann Hare about 1876. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Wolford, Johnstown, Canada West, British Colonial America in 1861 and Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada for about 30 years.
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- Joseph C Mills, "Canada Census, 1901"
- Mills in entry for William Joseph Mills, "Canada, British Columbia Death Registrations, 1872-1986; 1992-1993"
- Joseph B. Mills, "Canada Census, 1881"
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World Events (7)
1867 · Ontario Founded
On July 1, 1867, the province of Ontario was founded. It is the second largest province in Canada. A third of the population of Canada live here. Before it was Ontario it was called Upper Canada and had a Governor.
1871
British Columbia joins the confederation.
1883 · Mining Boom
In 1883, there was a mining boom in Northern Ontario when mineral deposits were found near Sudbury. Thomas Flanagan was the blacksmith for the Canadian Pacific Railway that noticed the deposits in the river.
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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