----- Original Message ----- From: "Wanda Powell" Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 11:49 PM Subject: [NS-L] Walter and Harriet Fraser > In the 1881 census Walter is a miller and Harriet is a milliner, does this > mean he works with wood mill? And she hats? Or some other type of mill > for > Walter? Terminology can be different? It had been said he was a paymaster > at a mine? A miller ground grain into a finer product .. for instance (and general meant/means) the grinding of wheat into flour. He could have been a miller of corn, barley or any other grain. A milliner made/makes hats. Toni ~ Ontario