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Australia / Re: SNELL & MILLER South Australia
« on: Sunday 08 January 12 15:42 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I'm certainly interested in all the information you have mentioned since I don't have any of it. The oldest photographs that I have are of two of Barbara Miller and William Eunson's children. William Eunson Jnr who went to live in Edinburgh and my GG Grandmother, Sarah(Eunson) Donaldson. She is seen in the photograph with her family. Back row l to r. William, Isabella, John, Barbara and James Jnr. Front row l to r. Margaret, James Donaldson Snr, Sarah Jnr, Sarah Snr.

Did you know that Barbara Miller and William Eunson had another 3 children. James died aged 37 and he was unmarried. John and David both emigrated to Australia in the second half of the 19th century. I have no information on John but David had 4 daughters (2 at least married in Australia) and his obituary is online.

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Australia / Re: SNELL & MILLER South Australia
« on: Friday 06 January 12 20:27 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

I have just made a small discovery regarding Sarah Elizabeth Miller. I have found a marriage record for John Miller and Elizabeth Sutherland, married in Kirkwall, Orkney in 26/04/1838. I have also discovered that John Miller aged 25 years was living on the same farm as his parents and daughter on the 1841 census, except he was in unmarried accommodation with several other unrelated males. I can find no birth record for Sarah Elizabeth or death record for her mother, Elizabeth.

I previously though that he must have been away at sea but it makes more sense that Elizabeth died and John remarried Euphemia Mowat 19/11/1841, when Sarah Elizabeth was 2 years old.

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Australia / Re: SNELL & MILLER South Australia
« on: Monday 02 January 12 13:55 GMT (UK)  »
Any information you can give me will be very much appreciated and if you want any more of the relatives in orkney I can supply some.

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Australia / Re: SNELL & MILLER South Australia
« on: Monday 02 January 12 11:03 GMT (UK)  »
Hello
Do you have any more information on the Australian part of the Miller family or descendants of Sarah Elizabeth that you could share? It is only very recently that I have started to look at this branch and only really know about them leaving Orkney. Sarah Elizabeth's parents John Miller and Euphemia married 19/11/1841. By that time Sarah Elizabeth was 3 years old. In the 1841 census she was living with her grandparents John and Sarah Miller at the Hall of Tankerness, St Andrews, Orkney where her grandfather was the farm overseer. Her mother Euphemia Mowat, a straw plaiter, was living with her parents at Aicres, St Andrews, Orkney and there was no mention of her father John Miller at all. It was quite an unusual situation but I have always thought that her father would have been a seaman and away on a long trip. It was not uncommon to be away for a couple of years or so if you were on a whaling boat. Euphemia Mowats relatives lived at Rumbles, St Andrews, Orkney and this became home to Euphemia and John when they married. That house is now nothing more that a pile of stone but all the other addresses remain and are still inhabited.

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Australia / Re: SNELL & MILLER South Australia
« on: Sunday 01 January 12 19:36 GMT (UK)  »
Sarah Elizabeth Miller , daughter of John Miller and Euphemia Mowat. John Miller and Euphemia owat emigrated to Adelaide on the Charlotte Jane in 1852 along with their four daughters Sarah (13), Jane (8), Barbara (5) and Robina Miller (1).  John's Father and Mother, John and Sarah Miller, were also with them. Also John's brother David, his wife Margaret and two children Margaret and George. Also John's brother Robert and his wife Margaret. Also John's brother William and wife Barbara. Only one member of the family remained behind and that was my GGGrandmother Barbara Miller. She was by that time married to William Eunson who did not wish to emigrate.
The parents John Miller Snr was born on the island of Stronsay, Orkney and his wife Sarah Miller (nee Scott) was born on the island of Sanday, Orkney.

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