Jane McGill Miller

12 August 1840–28 June 1870 (Age 29)
Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

The Life Summary of Jane McGill

When Jane McGill Miller was born on 12 August 1840, in Rutherglen, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Charles Stewart Miller, was 35 and her mother, Mary McGowan, was 37. She married Robert Lee Bybee on 19 March 1857, in Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. She lived in Davis, Utah, United States in 1860 and Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 28 June 1870, in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States, at the age of 29, and was buried in Smithfield, Cache, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Robert Lee Bybee
1838–1929
Jane McGill Miller
1840–1870
Marriage: 19 March 1857
Betsy Jane Bybee
1859–1859
Robert Lee Bybee Jr.
1860–1892
Francis Marion Bybee
1862–1955
James Andrew Bybee
1865–1952
Mary Alice Bybee
1867–1957
Elizabeth Bybee
1870–1963

Spouse and Children

  • Marriage
    19 March 1857Uintah, Weber, Utah, United States
    • Children

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    Parents and Siblings

    Siblings

    (11)

    +6 More Children

    World Events (8)

    1843
    Age 3
    Dickens A Christmas Carol was first published.
    1843 · The Disruption in the Church of Scotland
    Age 3
    The Disruption of 1843 was a division within the Church of Scotland, which 474 evangelical ministers of the Church broke away from the Church to form the Free Church of Scotland. They didn’t reject the principles of the Church of Scotland but were trying to establish a purer version of the Church without the King or Parliament being its head. It had huge effects not only within the Church of Scotland, but also with Scottish civic life.
    1850
    Age 10
    Named after the early pioneer leader Daniel C. Davis the County was established as a territory in 1850.The territorial legislature created Davis County in 1852 and designated its County seat at Farmington-midway between boundaries-the Weber River on the north and the mouth of the Jordan River on the south. Westward the County includes a portion of the Great Salt Lake-its largest island on which Antelope Island State Park is now located.During first half-century Davis County grew slowly.It supported a hardy pioneer people engaged in irrigation agriculture and raising livestock.The Utah Central Railroad(now the Union Pacific crossed the County from Ogden on the north to Salt Lake City on the south in 1870 and offered welcome transportation links to bring manufactured products.This was the beginning of a transition in the County's history that led to mechanized agriculture, a surge of commerce, banking, and local business along with improved roads, new water systems, and the electrification of homes and business

    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.

    Possible Related Names

    Millar
    Mueller
    Milner
    Millward
    McMiller

    Story Highlight

    Robert Lee Bybee - Biography in "History of Idaho"

    The following information about Robert Lee Bybee is copied from the biography of his son Francis Marion "Frank" Bybee as found in the "History of Idaho" written by Hirum T. French and published in 191 …

    Sources (47)

    • Jane Bybee in household of Robt Bybee, "United States Census, 1860"
    • Jane Bybee in entry for R L Bybee, "Utah, Salt Lake County Death Records, 1849-1949"
    • Jane Bybee in household of Robt Bybee, "United States Census, 1860"

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