When Mary Lees Miller was born on 13 February 1808, in Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire, England, United Kingdom, her father, John Harrison Miller, was 23 and her mother, Deborah Lees, was 25. She married William Oxley on 31 December 1833, in Franklin, Indiana, United States. She lived in Whitewater Township, Franklin, Indiana, United States for about 10 years and Utah, Utah, United States in 1870. She died on 25 January 1889, in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States, at the age of 80, and was buried in Provo, Utah, Utah, United States.
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War of 1812. U.S. declares war on Britain over British interference with American maritime shipping and westward expansion.
Historical Information 1816: Franklin, Indiana, United states
Eclectic Period (Art and Antiques).
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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