Mill Family History
Mill Name Meaning
Scottish and English: topographic name for someone who lived
near a mill, Middle English mille, milne (Old English
myl(e)n, from Latin molina, a derivative of
molere ‘to grind’). It was usually in effect an occupational
name for a worker at a mill or for the miller himself. The mill,
whether powered by water, wind, or (occasionally) animals, was an
important center in every medieval settlement; it was normally
operated by an agent of the local landowner, and individual peasants
were compelled to come to him to have their grain ground into flour, a
proportion of the ground grain being kept by the miller by way of
payment.English: from a short form of a personal name, probably
female, as for example Millicent.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mill
Name Distribution of Mill Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mill families
 135 - 267  46 - 134 |
 1 - 45  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mill families
|
147 - 291 50 - 146 |
1 - 49 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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Mill Family Origin
Mill Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mill Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
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