Completed: Mitchell Miller marriage and/or births or baptisms

[heywood]

William and Elizabeth are in 1850 census, Illinois and there is a death for Harriet  in 1842 so that is the right family.

[seahall]

Blimey Heywood.

I am looking at umpteenth records one at a time and was just going type
all the children that Stephen and Sarah and Stephen and Mary that died
in Finedon etc.

Finedon Parish Church

Pg. 33, No.259
Julia, Daughter of Stephen & Sarah Miller, Finedon
Buried 21 8, Died 18 8 1824, aged 1

Sandy

[seahall]

Pg. 51, No. 404
Elizth, daur of Stephen & Sarah Miller, Finedon,
Buried 10 12, Died 9 12 1829,
aged  ten days

Pg. 78, No. 623
Sarah Ann , Daur of   Stephen & Sarah Miller , Finedon
Buried 29 10, Died 24 10 1836, aged 5

Pg. 100, No. 796
Mary , Daughter of Stephen &   Sarah Miller , Finedon
Buried 29 8, Died 26 8 1842, aged 21

Sandy

[seahall]

Pg. 69, No.550
Sarah, wife of Stephen Miller, Finedon
Buried 16 11, Died 13? 11 1834, aged 37

Sandy

[heywood]

You have worked so hard there with all that info - it's really good and I am sure you are right that he had an older family and then another one with second wife.

Weren't they adventurous to do that journey!

[seahall]

Pg. 99, No. 787
Harriet, daughter of Stephen & Mary Miller, Finedon
Buried 23 5, Died 19 5 1842 , aged Six mths

Sandy

[seahall]

Thanks.

I have already transcribed the records but can not copy and paste
so have to check against original and then type on Roots. 

Amazing I agree to have made that journey Heywood.

I wonder what made so many go from the village as the Mormons
didn't recruit in Northamptonshire until 1850's if I am correct.

Sandy

[machita]

The story I have is that they were originally part of a group going as a colony to Venezuela. The group broke up, however, and Charles and Hannah went to America instead. It took me forever to find their arrival information as they did not go via the "normal" route, but took the much cheaper option returning on an empty cargo ship to New Orleans. From there they traveled up the Mississippi, and then went by foot (!) to Sangamon, Illinois where they settled. They and their relatives all did very well there and prospered. I don't think there was a Mormon connection as Charles is mentioned in some of the documentation as having "adhered" to the Church of England as a young man and then being active in local Protestant churches in Illinois.
I found a Mary Miller, who is the right age, working as a maid in Wollaston in 1841 (as is Hannah but in West Haddon) - which would have been the year before she died.
I also found an Eliza Miller, the right age for Stephen and Sarah's youngest daughter and born in England, living with another family, probably as a servant, in nearby in Illinois in 1850...
This is all fantastic - information - you have helped me (and others I'm sure) so much with this family! Now, I'll have to investigate the possible Lincolnshire connection!

[machita]

I have a copy of the ship manifest arriving in New Orleans in case anyone is interested in looking for other Finedon or Northamptonshire connections! I can't figure out how to attach it here - but can send it if desired.