When Milly Hillier Hilliard was born on 29 December 1793, in Shalbourne, Wiltshire, England, her father, James Hilliard, was 45 and her mother, Sarah Newman, was 40.
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English (Wiltshire and Surrey): occupational name for a roofer from Middle English hil(l)ier, hul(li)er, hel(li)er ‘roofer, slater, tiler’, agent nouns from the Middle English verb hil(i)en, hel(i)an, hul(i)en ‘to put a roof on; cover with a roof’.
French: from the personal name Hillier, a vernacular form of Hilaire (see Hillary ).
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