Brief Life History of James Burnes
James Burnes Miller was born on 17 June 1797, in Cavendish, Windsor, Vermont, United States. He married Dolly Varnum Abbott on 15 May 1820, in Stratford, Coos, New Hampshire, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons. He died in his hometown.
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Sources (2)
- James B Miller en el registro de Edward Wallace Miller, "Vermont, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1732-2005"
- James B. Miller en el registro de Wallace Miller, "Vermont Vital Records, 1760-1954"
Spouse and Children
1797– Male
1793– Female
Children (3)
1821–1915 Male
1825–1890 Male
1833–1834 Male
World Events (8)
1800 · Movement to Washington D.C.
Age 3
1803
Age 6
1830 · The Second Great Awakening
Age 33
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.
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