Origins of surname
The original Miller was the owner or operator of a corn mill. There were undoubtedly several given this common surname independently. It is derived from the old English words mylene and milne, and ultimately from the Latin molere, meaning 'to grind'.
Early records
The name does not appear in Jersey until the mid 18th century, but you wait a long time and then along come four Millers in different families in a row. First, in 1756, was the baptism of Joseph, the son of William and Mary Purcher. This was followed the next year by the baptism of Edward, the son of Thomas and an unknown Jane, and in 1765 by Humphrey, the son of Henry and Bridget Cavendish.
Thomas and Anne Martin then had three children baptised in St Brelade in the 1770s.
Variants
- Miller
- Millar
Family records
Family trees
Church records
- Miller baptisms in Jersey
- Miller marriages in Jersey (groom)
- Miller marriages in Jersey (bride)
- Miller burials in Jersey
Great War service
Family wills
Burial records
Family businesses
Family album
Ena Kathleen Miller
Ena Miller and her father
Florence Miller, nee Marett
Leslie Frank Miller
Arthur Miller, with elder sister Lily
Frederick Miller (1869-1918) who married Florence Marett. Lost his life on the South Western, of which he was chief steward
Gertrude Miller (1925-1992) (St Helier to Australia), daughter of Arthur James Dearsley and Lilian Elizabeth Parker
Ernest Baudoux photograph of Mrs Miller
Sisters Lilian (1919-2006), Margaret (1921-1930) and Gertrude Mary (1925-1992) Miller, daughters of Arthur James and Lily Elizabeth, nee Parker. Margaret drowned at school at the age of nine
Robert Edwin Miller (1869-1937), served in the Royal Marines from 1887 to 1894. The son of Robert Edwin Miller and Mary Ann Susannah, nee Renouf, he married Edith Wright (1866-1947) the year after leaving the Marines. They had two daughters and a son, also named Robert Edwin.
Siblings Emma (1875- ), Henry (1880-1968) and Maria Miller (1871-1956). Their parents were Richard Miller, of Devon, and Jane, nee Alexandre, of Jersey, who married at St Helier in 1890. Maria was born in Jersey, but Emma and Henry were born after the family moved to Devon
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Family gravestones
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Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Old Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
Mont a l’Abbe cemetery
St Ouen parish cemetery
St Matthew’s, St Lawrence
St Saviour
St Saviour
Great War casualty Frederick Clifford Miller's grave at Janval Cemetery, Dieppe
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