When Mills Merrill was born on 20 December 1831, in Orford, Grafton, New Hampshire, United States, his father, Josiah Merrill, was 39 and his mother, Sarah Mills, was 43. He lived in Porter Township, Scioto, Ohio, United States for about 10 years. He died on 17 January 1890, in New Hampshire, United States, at the age of 58.
Welsh and English: from a female personal name of Celtic origin, found in Welsh as Meriel and Meryl and in Irish as Muirgheal, earlier Muirgel (‘sea-bright’).
English: habitational name from one or more of the many places whose names derive from Middle English mirie, merie, murie ‘merry, pleasant’ (Old English myrge) + hill, hell, hull ‘hill’ (Old English hyll), including two places called Merry Hill in Staffordshire and a third in Hertfordshire.
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