Brief Life History of William C
William C Miller was born in 1895, in Wisconsin, United States. He married Etta Nancy Rowley before 1918. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in McHenry, McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1920 and Woodstock, McHenry, Illinois, United States in 1930. He died in 1967, in Illinois, United States, at the age of 72.
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- William C Miller, "United States Census, 1930"
- William C Miller in entry for Lyle C Miller, "United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007"
- William C Miller, "United States Census, 1920"
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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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