Brief Life History of Margaret E.
When Margaret E. Miles was born on 26 March 1868, in Akron, Tuscola, Michigan, United States, her father, William Bancroft Miles, was 28 and her mother, Mary Elizabeth Cadwell, was 21. She lived in Elkland Township, Tuscola, Michigan, United States in 1870. She died on 12 November 1881, in Columbia Township, Tuscola, Michigan, United States, at the age of 13, and was buried in Unionville, Tuscola, Michigan, United States.
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Family Time Line
Sources (8)
- Margaret Miles in household of William Miles, "United States Census, 1870"
- Margrett E Miles, "Michigan, County Births, 1867-1917"
- Maggie Miles, "Michigan Deaths, 1867-1897"
Parents and Siblings
1839–1915 Male
1847–1910 Female
Siblings (11)
1866– Female
1867–1917 Male
1868–1881 Female
1870–1881 Female
1871–1939 Male
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World Events (7)
1870 · The Fifteenth Amendment
Age 2
1870 · Giving all the right to vote
Age 2
1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii
Age 7
Name Meaning
English (of Norman origin): from the Middle English (Old French) personal name Mile + genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, or from its other Old French form Miles, a derivative of ancient Germanic Milo, based on the element mil, from mel ‘good, generous’. The Old French oblique case form was Milon (see Milon 1). Compare Millen and Millson .
English: variant, with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s, of Myhill , from a vernacular form of the Biblical name Michael . Miles Coverdale, the translator of the Bible, when in Germany, called himself Michael Anglus (‘the Englishman’).
Irish (Louth and Kilkenny): when not the same as 1 or 2, it is sometimes an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Maolmhuire, see Myles .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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