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Hello Sam again

My grandmother Lucy who married Harold Moore actually had four children, John who died in 1939, Stella (my mother), Frank who died in 1945, Mike who died in 1982 and Diana who was born in 1930 and now lives in Norfolk.
In 1911 Herbert Miller was in Hong Kong in the Royal Engineers and was a photographer. He died in 1949
I am not sure if the David Miller you said died in 1883 is the right one as he was discharged in Dublin in 1848 with severe rheumatoid pulmonary (and I can't read the rest on his records) so that would suggest he was a very sick man then.
Maud and Minnie never married but I believe that Maud lived with Ethel for some time and I can remember as a small child going to visit them and having to sleep on two armchairs pushed together which kept slipping apart throughout the night!  They lived in Derby as far as I know.
William and Martha Thomas were Lucy Brown's sister and brother in law and had an hotel in Alverstoke.
I don't know anything about David's wife (Thomas's mother) other than she was called Mary Anne.  Marriage certificates gave nothing away about the women in those days!!
I found Lucy Miller aged 14 on the 1901 census staying with William and Harriet King in Normanton.  Whether this could be Thomas sister who knows. Keep looking and I will too
Be back soon when I have found anything more.
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Sam, just a PS  Thomas Miller married Lucy Brown in Cork in 1877.  She came from Gosport and her father was George Brown who was a farmer.
Meant to add this on my previous message but pressed send too quickly!!

This probably too late but I've only just joined this site.  David Miller was born in Waterford in 1806 and joined the 95th Foot in Manchester in 1825.  He served in Malta, Corfu back to Cork and then to Ceylon where his son Thomas (my great grandfather) was born.  He was discharged in Dublin in 1848.  His wife was Mary Anne but who she was and where she came from, I don't know yet.
Thomas served in Dublin where my great aunt Elizabeth and my great Uncle Thomas F were born.  The rest of the children (6) were all born in Derby.
I haven't been able to find David Miller's birth for sure in Waterford as the Irish records are not available on line.  It may be that he was born in another year and lied to join the Army.
Thomas was put into the Royal Hibernian School in 1855 and then went into the army as a boy soldier in 1859.  Why he went there I don't know.  Was it because he was an orphan at the age of 11?
A lot of the records were destroyed during the troubles and also during WW11 as they were transferred to London.
If you can help me in any way, I would be grateful and vice versa, of course.