This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mills Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/3528.1.1.2 Message Board Post: Our family of Mills: We're in the line of those men named Hope. Often wonder why men received such a name, figure there is reason. Our group; Hope 1681 - 1736, Hope 1711-1737, Hope 1733, Thomas 1760-1864, Hope 1808-1903, Hope 1848 - 1920, Charles Henry (my great-grandfather) 1871-1930, Ava Mae Mills (Dady) (my grandmother and namesake) 1899-1964, then my mother and myself. My grandmother bore 16 children. I'm the eldest grandchild. One named Thomas Mills history is quite interesting - lived 104 years, and fought in so many wars, captured and held hostage by Indians, and married multiple times. HE's the one 1760 - 1864. He's a book all by himself. His wife in our line is Lydia Ann Cahill. Ava
Dear Ava, There is a certain Mills family line which continued to use the male name of HOPE Mills. This is not my own line, as far as I know, but a fellow researcher is from that line. Joyce hag@winco.net talk with her, and she will help you. The Hope Mills line apparently begins in Long Island, New York. That is due EAST of New York City. The counties of Kings, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk are all Long Island, NY. Joyce has told me, the her line was a HOPE Mills, to his son Amos b. 1775 Long Island, he married Catherine Gulick, Amos died, but Catherine remarried and she and her Mills children lived in Fulton Co, IL in the Deerfield township. My ancestor Gideon Mills b. 1798 also lived at Deerfield twsp, IL but apparently is not related. Just a coincidence. Best regards, Lilly Martin ----- Original Message ----- From: <avaforce@msn.com> To: <MILLS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2006 5:55 AM Subject: [MILLS] Re: jane b. dearborn mills > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Mills > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jE1.2ACEB/3528.1.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > Our family of Mills: We're in the line of those men named Hope. Often > wonder why men received such a name, figure there is reason. Our group; > Hope 1681 - 1736, Hope 1711-1737, Hope 1733, Thomas 1760-1864, Hope > 1808-1903, Hope 1848 - 1920, Charles Henry (my great-grandfather) > 1871-1930, Ava Mae Mills (Dady) (my grandmother and namesake) 1899-1964, > then my mother and myself. My grandmother bore 16 children. I'm the eldest > grandchild. > One named Thomas Mills history is quite interesting - lived 104 years, and > fought in so many wars, captured and held hostage by Indians, and married > multiple times. HE's the one 1760 - 1864. He's a book all by himself. His > wife in our line is Lydia Ann Cahill. > > Ava > > > ==== MILLS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the MILLS list, send the command "unsubscribe" to > MILLS-L-request@rootsweb.com (if in mail mode) or > MILLS-D-request@rootsweb.com (if in digest mode.) > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >