I get a chance to spend some time in the Salt Lake Family History Library this month and need to decide ahead of time what to look up.
Families I want to work on:
Miller, Newman, and Westover in New York and England
Hannah Westover and William Newman were both born in England but had their first child in New York. Did they marry in England or in New York?
Their daughter, Sarah, married John Henry Miller. Revisting John Henry's info:
According to John Henry's death certificate his father, John Miller, was
born on Staten Island (Richmond county, New York) and his mom, Hannah
V., was born on Long Island, New York. The 1880 Census supports this as
it lists John Henry's birthplace as Long Island, his dad's as New York,
and his mom's as Long Island. The death certificate lists his mother's
name as Hannah V. Miller, and although there is a chance her maiden name
was Miller, I'm guessing they just used her married name when they
filled out the certificate. John's sister Adeline also has on her death
certificate the names of John Miller and Hannah Miller as her parents.
TRACK DOWN OTHER SIBLINGS DEATH CERTIFICATES
John (II) Miller's parents were John (I) and Mary Miller. This is about John (II):
John
Miller, a member of Janes Methodist Episcopal Church, died at his home,
corner of Gates and Patchen avenues, yesterday, in his 87th year. He
was the oldest member of the church. He was born on Staten Island in
1812, and had been a farmer in a number of Western States finally
returning to Brooklyn, where he retired from business. Eight children,
fifteen grandchildren, and 6 great grandchildren survive him.
John MILLER (son of John and Mary MILLER)
b. 21 April 1812 Staten Island, Richmond, New York
m. 1831-1832 to Hannah VAN VELSOR (b. 4 December 1817 Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York)
they lived in Ohio in 1860, and he lived in Wisconsin in 1880
d. 5 May 1899 Brooklyn, Kings, New York
Hannah is the daughter of Thomas VAN VELSOR and Sarah VAN SISE of Oyster Bay.
issue:
1. John Henry MILLER (married Sarah Ann NEWMAN)
b. 11 May 1833 Brooklyn/ m. Dec 1852/ d. 14 Jun 1901
2. Elizabeth Jane MILLER (married Mortimer A. DOTY)
b. 25 September 1834 Brooklyn/m. ~1858/d. 27 December 1917 Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee)
3. Adeline A. MILLER (married Henry B. SOUTHARD)
b. 20 Nov 1837 Brooklyn/ m. ~1854/ d. 24 Apr 1901 Bellmore, Nassau, New York
4. Cornelius V. MILLER (married Nellie A. COON)
b 1838-39 in NY (he was in Ohio in 1860, in NY in 1864-65, and in Wisconsin in 1880)
5. Arson MILLER (indexed as Avon Miller in the 1865 NY State census)
b. 1845-46 in NY
6. Ezra MILLER
b. 1847-48 in NY
7. Mary Lavinia MILLER (m. John PATTERSON)
b. 1849-50 in NY/m. abt 1867/d. 12 February 1917 Brooklyn, Kings, New York
8. Serena/Syrena MILLER
b. 1851-52 in NY
9. Emma Louise MILLER (m. William Miller WANDELL)
b. 1853-54 in NY/m. 1879/d. 11 August 1935 New York City
10. Lany MILLER
b. 1855-56 in Ohio
11. Anna I. or J. MILLER
b. Dec 1859 in Ohio
12? Sunnah MILLER
b. 1865 New York (unless the NY State census is wrong and this should have been Lany...)
John was born in NY and had his first 8 children there, but then he
moved to Ohio where Lany and Anna were born. He is in the 1860 census in
Madison, Lake, Ohio.
In the 1880 census, John is in LaFayette, Chippewa, Wisconsin as a widower living with his son Cornelius.
John's death certificate, issued in 1899, states that he had been a
resident of the City of New York for the past 20 years, so I'm guessing
he moved from Wisconsin back to New York soon after the 1880 census.
