When William Mills was born on 11 March 1799, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States, his father, James William Mills, was 26 and his mother, Sarah Lamar, was 38. He married Rebecca Summers on 9 September 1819, in Jefferson, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. He lived in Texas, United States in 1870 and Justice Precinct 7, Collin, Texas, United States in 1880. He died on 28 June 1890, in Collin, Collin, Texas, United States, at the age of 91.
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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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