Miller Family History
Miller Name Meaning
English and Scottish: occupational name for a miller. The
standard modern vocabulary word represents the northern Middle English
term, 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. adm The American surname has absorbed many cognate
surnames from other European languages, for example French
Meunier, Dumoulin, Demoulins, and Moulin;
German Mueller; Dutch Molenaar; Italian
Molinaro; Spanish Molinero; Hungarian Molnár;
Slavic Mlinar, etc.Southwestern and Swiss German and
Jewish (Ashkenazic): variant of Müller (see Mueller).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Miller
Name Distribution of Miller Families
MAP:
England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Miller families
 3,631 - 7,260  1,211 - 3,630 |
 1 - 1,210  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Miller families
|
3,205 - 6,407 1,069 - 3,204 |
1 - 1,068 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Miller census records
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Miller Family Origin
Miller Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Miller Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Miller Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Miller census records
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