Robert Miller

Brief Life History of Robert

Robert Miller was born in 1791, in Orange, Virginia, United States as the son of John Miller and Lucretia Kirtley. He married Anna Buford Chapman on 6 January 1816, in Orange, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 2 daughters. He died in 1855, in Greene, Virginia, United States, at the age of 64.

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Robert Miller
1791–1855
Anna Buford Chapman
1773–1858
Marriage: 6 January 1816
Lucretia Miller
1803–1893
Robert Miller Jr
1807–1892
John Alexander Miller
1816–1890
Robert Miller
1820–
Lucretia A J Miller
1824–1895
Valentine H. Miller
1826–1895

Sources (7)

  • Robert Miller, "United States Census, 1840"
  • Robert Miller, "Virginia, Orange County Marriage Records, 1757-1938"
  • Robert in entry for Valentine H Miller, "Virginia, Bureau of Vital Statistics, County Marriage Registers, 1853-1935"

World Events (8)

1791

Bill of Rights guarantees individual freedom.

1791 · The Bill of Rights

After the Constitution was made, some objections were raised by Anti-Federalists. So, in response ten amendments were discussed and voted on to become The Bill of Rights. These rights were made to clarify and guarantee certain freedoms of residents of the country.

1808

Atlantic slave trade abolished.

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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