Brief Life History of Nordena Wilson
When Nordena Wilson Miller was born on 4 May 1920, in Bedford, Bedford, Pennsylvania, United States, her father, William James Sill Miller, was 29 and her mother, Margaret E Mates, was 25. She lived in Camp Hill, Cumberland, Pennsylvania, United States in 1930. She died on 17 May 2007, in Winter Park, Orange, Florida, United States, at the age of 87.
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Family Time Line
Sources (3)
- Nordena Miller in household of William J S Miller, "United States Census, 1930"
- Nordena Miller Wayman, "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, Births, and Marriages 1980-2014"
- Nordena W Miller, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
Parents and Siblings
1891–1976 Male
1895–1961 Female
Siblings (2)
1920–2007 Female
1928–2018 Female
World Events (8)
1923 · The President Dies of a Heart Attack
Age 3
1941 · Florida Involvement in World War II
Age 21
1944 · The G.I Bill
Age 24
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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