Hi Bill Yep, you are so right. I was incomplete in my request. I had worked several hours on this family, and in frustration and being tired, just thought I'd ask if someone on the board had that census information. It is James, wife Sarah, Miller. But Sarah might be widowed. Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Tufts To: newbrunswick@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [ NB ] 1891 Sunbury Census --> A posting suggestion

Hello Sara, I have some info on a James Miller family from Sunbury, though I don't think it is the one you are looking for. Here goes anyway: 40. Mary3 Eliza Fisher (Michael2, Lewis1) was born about 1833, the daughter of Michael and Nancy Ann (Merritt) Fisher. Miss Mary E. Fisher of Indiantown married James H. Miller, Esq. of Burlington, Maine on 24 May 1855 in St. Luke’s Anglican Church in Portland. Mary Eliza Miller died 26 May 1896, according to the diary of Alexander Haining of New Maryland. The diary also records that James Miller died 16 October 1904. The baptisms of their children born between 1856 and 1866 show James Henry and Mary Eliza Miller as residents of Indiantown but they next appear in the Parish of Lancaster census for 1871. Six children are listed with the family as is the widow Ann Peters Fisher--probably Mary Eliza Miller’s mother. The census shows that James Henry Miller was aged 40 and born in the United States. He was an engineer, and his religion was Anglican. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Sunbury County and towards the end of the century the family lived near Fredericton Junction on a farm on the Back Tracy Road. The farm fronted on the North Oromocto River and an island known as “Miller's Island” was a popular place “for picnics and baseball games”. Miller, according to a local history, was a First Class Engineer, qualified to operate seagoing steamships. By this time he was the engineer of “the Fredericton” a railway locomotive running between Fredericton and Fredericton Junction on the main line of the railway. The farm was acquired by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1909 through Henry Webb who had purchased it in the meantime. Henry Miller also figures prominently in local railway history as the co-inventor of the “Miller flanger”, a device which attached to a railway locomotive’s “cowcatcher” to scrape away snow and ice from the tops of the rails. Some sources hold that John Hamilton, a person of colour, and a blacksmith at the Devon roundhouse invented the flanger but Miller patented it, however. It seems probable that both of their skills and expertise as an engineer and a blacksmith were required to conceive and create this device. The New Brunswick Reporter announced in October 1873 that Miller’s patented “Ice and Snow Flanger for Locomotives” would be on display at the Fredericton Exhibition. The device is shown in a George Taylor photograph which dates from between 1870 and 1877 of “Old No. 2”, the locomotive of the Fredericton branch railway. Local notables Alexander “Boss” Gibson and Fred B. Edgecombe stand beside the steam engine in the photograph. Perhaps Miller and Hamilton are the two unidentified men standing inside the locomotive? The flanger continued in use on branch locomotives until the introduction of automated stop signals, with whose use it interfered. The Miller family appears in the census of 1891 for Gladstone with three of their children, but does not appear in the census of 1901 for that parish. Mary had since died so James Henry Miller had probably moved in with one of his children. Children of James Henry and Mary Eliza (Fisher) Miller: i Charles Henry, b. 17 Mar 1856, d. young? ii William E., b. 21 Oct 1857 iii Ada Byron, b. 12 Dec 1859 iv Mary Ann, b. 24 May 1862 v Eliza Flewelling, b. 9 Jan 1864, m. Peleg J. Smith, 10 Sep 1902, in Sunbury Co. vi Henry J., b. 10 Aug 1866 vii Amanda Fitzallen, b. 21 Aug 1870 at Lancaster; d. 1952; m. Sterling L. Alexander, 9 Mar or Nov 1898 at Fredericton Junction. He was born 3 Oct 1875, the son of Thomas and Mary (Merrithew) Alexander, and in died 1954. They are buried in Gladstone Cemetery, Fredericton Junction. They had six children: Thomas H., Dorothy E., Frank C., Jean, Arnold, and Ralph. viii Ella M., b. 1872, d. aft. 1881, bef. 1891? ix Minnie A., b. 1875 Cheers, Rob Fisher _______________________________ www.familyheritage.ca -----Original Message----- From: newbrunswick-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:newbrunswick-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of sara5d Sent: February 25, 2007 6:03 AM To: newbrunswick@rootsweb.com Subject: [ NB ] 1891 Sunbury Look Up - James Miller Hi Bill Yep, you are so right. I was incomplete in my request. I had worked several hours on this family, and in frustration and being tired, just thought I'd ask if someone on the board had that census information. It is James, wife Sarah, Miller. But Sarah might be widowed. Sara ----- Original Message ----- From: Bill Tufts To: newbrunswick@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2007 10:10 PM Subject: Re: [ NB ] 1891 Sunbury Census --> A posting suggestion ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEWBRUNSWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/697 - Release Date: 22/02/2007 11:55 AM -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.18.3/697 - Release Date: 22/02/2007 11:55 AM