Brief Life History of Mill
When Mill was christened on 10 May 1741, in Port of Menteith, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, his father, Hendrie Mill, was 38 and his mother, Elizabeth Morison, was 33.
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- Mill, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
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1802 · John Playfair publishes summary of James Hutton's theories of geology.
In 1802, John Playfair published the Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. His influence was by James Hutton’s knowledge of the earth’s geology.
1815
The defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte at Waterloo marks the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Napoleon defeated and exiled to St. Helena.
1823
Rugby Football 'invented' at Rugby School.
Name Meaning
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, from Middle English mille, melle, mulle ‘mill’ (assimilated forms of Old English mylen). It was usually in effect an occupational name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill, whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of payment.
English: from the Middle English female personal name Mill, a short form of Millicent (compare Millett ) or perhaps from a variant of the Middle English male personal name Mile (see Miles ).
Dutch (Van Mill): habitational name from Mill in North Brabant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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