Brief Life History of Theophilus
When Theophilus Miles was born on 17 March 1676, in New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States, his father, Samuel Miles Sr, was 35 and his mother, Hannah Wilmot, was 31. He married Bethia Pettit on 3 April 1698, in Milford, New Haven, Connecticut, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died in 1701, in Paugasset, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 25.
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- Theophilus Miels, "Connecticut, Births and Christenings, 1649-1906"
- Theophilus Miels, "Connecticut, Vital Records, Prior to 1850"
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1701
New Haven is the home of Yale University. A The city served as co-capital of Connecticut from 1701 until 1873, when sole governance was transferred to the more centrally located city of Hartford.
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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