Brief Life History of John
John Miller was born in 1856, in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, United Kingdom. He had at least 1 son and 1 daughter with Mary. He lived in Gorton, Lancashire, England in 1881 and West Derby, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom in 1881. He died in 1964, at the age of 108.
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- John Miller, "England and Wales Census, 1881"
Spouse and Children
World Events (8)
1859 · Lancashire Rifle Volunteers
Age 3
1880 · School Attendance Becomes Mandatory for Children
Age 24
1884
Age 28
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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