Miller

Millar, Myllar, Mylar, Millare, Myllair, Mellir, Mueller

Mottos:

'This I Will Defend'

'Manent Optima Coelo'
The Best Awaits Us in Heaven

'Virtute Ingenioque Valemus'
'Sibimet Merces Industria'

Miller - Is ancient and occupational and an assimilated form of Milner, a derivative of the Middle English word "Mylne" or mill.

Miller - The German variant is Mueller - mill worker

Miller is an association with the MacFarlane Clan of Scotland with origins from Dumfrieshire, Scotland.

First found in in Dumfriesshire, Scotland where they were seated from very ancient times. Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Daniel Millar who settled in Maryland in 1714; the family, Millars and Millers, also settled in Pennsylvania, South Carolina, New Hampshire, in the 18th and 19th centuries.

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