Brief Life History of Nellie May
When Nellie May Mills was born on 19 February 1891, in Portland Township, Frontenac, Ontario, Canada, her father, Thomas C. Mills, was 25 and her mother, Willow Etta Wood, was 24. She married Thomas William Lambert on 4 December 1915, in Napanee, Lennox and Addington, Ontario, Canada. She lived in Ontario, Canada in 1901 and Frontenac, Ontario, Canada in 1911.
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- Nellie Mills in household of Levi Evans, "Canada Census, 1911"
- Nellie May Mills, "Ontario Marriages, 1869-1927"
- M Nellie Mills in household of C Thomas Mills, "Canada Census, 1901"
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World Events (7)
1906 · Hydro-Electric of Ontario
Ontario Hydro was established in 1906. It is the Hydro-Electric Power Commission of Ontario.
1934 · Dionne Quintuplets Born
Born on May 28, 1934, the Dionne quintuplets were the first set of quintuplets to survive infancy. The five girls were born two months prematuare and months later were taken from their parents by the Red Cross. In the 1940s they were returned to their family.
1943 · Conservative Party Wins Ontario Election
George A. Drew was the leader of the Progressive Conservative Party. In 1943, they won the Ontario election.
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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