John Miles

Brief Life History of John

John Miles was born on 2 August 1842, in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. He lived in Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States in 1910. He died on 7 May 1919, in Logan, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 76, and was buried in Paradise Cemetery, Paradise, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Nicholas Welch II
1795–1842
Elizabeth Briggs
1799–1867
Nathaniel Welch
1819–1822
Sarah Welch
1821–1822
John Welch Sr
1823–1910
Marianne Welch
1825–1826
Ann Welch
1826–1904
William Welch
1830–1842
George Welch
1837–1842
John Miles
1842–1919

Sources (14)

  • John Miles, "United States Census, 1910"
  • John Miles, "England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008"
  • John Miles, "Utah Death Certificates, 1904-1964"

World Events (8)

1843

Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.

1852

EARLIEST KNOWN BURIAL: William Smith BIRTH 31 Mar 1852 DEATH 12 Oct 1858 (aged 6) BURIAL Paradise Cemetery Paradise, Cache County, Utah, USA PLOT M5 MEMORIAL ID 38189624

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

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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John Miles (by Eva Dunn Snow)

In the company with which the Nicholas Welch family came to Zion, was a family by the name of Miles- the father, mother, their daughter Jane and little John who was just two years of age. He was born …

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