Mills Family History
Mills Name Meaning
English and Scottish: variant of Mill 1.English:
either a metronymic form of Mill 2, or a variant of
Miles.Irish: in Ulster this is the English name, but
elsewhere in Ireland it may be a translation of a Gaelic topographic
byname, an Mhuilinn ‘of the mill’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Mills
Name Distribution of Mills Families
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England & Wales
Scotland
Number of Mills families
 3,134 - 6,265  1,045 - 3,133 |
 1 - 1,044  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Mills families
|
302 - 602 101 - 301 |
1 - 100 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Mills census records
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Mills Family Origin
Mills Emigration Information (US)
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from the New York Passenger Lists
Mills Emigration Information (AU)
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to Australia.
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from the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
Mills Family Occupations
from 1881 UK Census Data
Mills census records
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Military Service by Mills
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