John Miller, of Dublin

ID: I36178 Name: John Miller IV Sex: M Birth: ABT 1647 in Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Reference Number: 36178 Note: Name: John MILLER Given Name: John Surname: Miller Sex: M Birth: abt 1647 in Dublin, Ireland Note: The son of John Miller, Esquire, John was born in Dublin, Ireland. His son and grandson, also named John Miller, were born in Ballycasey, County Clare, 115 miles southwest of Dublin. The assumption is that this John Miller, born about 1647, spent part of his life in Ballycasey.

John's mother was Anglo-Irish, with English-born parents. His wife was Anglo-Irish, the daughter of a knight and the descendant of an English-born Baron. John's father was born in Scotland, but John appears to have been Anglo-Irish rather than a Scotch-Irish Ulsterman. His religion may have been Anglican or Presbyterian. If he was Presbyterian, he would have been in a distinct minority among the Anglo-Irish. There were times when the English were almost as unkind to the Presbyterian Irish as they were to the Catholic Irish.

Ballycasey was way outside the English Pale, the area around Dublin that was relatively safe for Anglo-Irish colonizers and administrators. Throughout the more than 800 years of English presence in Ireland, many native Irish have been resentful of English power. Some of the locals have expressed their opinions in violent ways. There were several uprisings in the 1600's that would have affected the Millers of Ballycasey. The Pender Census of 1659 lists 440 English and 16,034 Irish residents of County Clare, making them a vulnerable minority of 2.5%.

During the English Civil War in the 1640's, there was almost a free-for-all in Ireland between (1) the Catholic Irish, (2) the Puritan English Parliamentarians (Roundheads) under Oliver Cromwell, (3) English Royalists (Cavaliers), and (4) the Presbyterian Scotch-Irish of northern Ireland. A general Catholic uprising in 1641, organized by the clergy with the aim of driving all Protestants out of Ireland, resulted in thousands of Protestant deaths and many more refugees. This revolt and the English reaction to it involved atrocities on both sides. At least 200,000 people died in the Irish Confederate Wars between 1641 and 1653, out of a total population of 1.5 million.

Later, when England's pro-Catholic King James II was in power (1685-1688), many Anglo-Irish living out beyond the Pale had to evacuate their homes and flee to Dublin because London was not interested in protecting them from the wrath of the Catholic Irish.

The Protestant army of King William of England (Williamites) and the Catholic forces of the deposed James II (Jacobites) engaged each other in fierce battles in Ireland from 1688 to 1691. There was much chaos and bloodshed until the Treaty of Limerick in 1691. It is no understatement to say that between 1641 and 1691, Anglo-Irish enclaves in counties where the Millers and Caulfields lived, such as Roscommon, Clare, and Limerick, were not places for the faint-of-heart. Castles, strengthened manor houses, and fortified confiscated abbeys were more than just impressive places to live; they were refuges of safety and strongholds for counter-attacks during these eternal uprisings.

What did the Millers and other Anglo-Irish do in Ireland for hundreds of years? Many of them were landed gentry, gentlemen managers of their agricultural estates where they built their manor houses. Their jobs were to tell other people what their jobs were. They served as officers in militia units that were called up to put down mischief by rebellious Catholic Irishmen. They also performed local administrative functions such as magistrates and assessors, in addition to being lay-officials in their Protestant churches after the Reformation. The Anglo-Irish comprised the majority of members in the Irish Parliament, subordinate to the English Parliament, of course.

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Father: John MILLER b: abt 1606 in Scotland Mother: Alice Else PORTER b: abt 1625 in Ireland

Marriage 1 Margaret CAULFIELD b: abt 1650 in Dunamon, Roscommon, Ireland Married: 1668 in Ireland Children John MILLER b: abt 1669 in Ballycasey, Clare, Ireland William MILLER b: abt 1671 in Ireland

The son of John Miller, Esquire, John was born in Dublin, Ireland. His son and grandson, also named John Miller, were born in Ballycasey, County Clare, 115 miles southwest of Dublin. The assumption is that this John Miller, born about 1647, spent part of his life in Ballycasey. John's mother was Anglo-Irish, with English-born parents. His wife was Anglo-Irish, the daughter of a knight and the descendant of an English-born Baron. John's father was born in Scotland, but John appears to have been Anglo-Irish rather than a Scotch-Irish Ulsterman. His religion may have been Anglican or Presbyterian. If he was Presbyterian, he would have been in a distinct minority among the Anglo-Irish. There were times when the English were almost as unkind to the Presbyterian Irish as they were to the Catholic Irish. Ballycasey was way outside the English Pale, the area around Dublin that was relatively safe for Anglo-Irish colonizers and administrators. Throughout the more than 800 years of English presence in Ireland, many native Irish have been resentful of English power. Some of the locals have expressed their opinions in violent ways. There were several uprisings in the 1600's that would have affected the Millers of Ballycasey. The Pender Census of 1659 lists 440 English and 16,034 Irish residents of County Clare, making them a vulnerable minority of 2.5%. During the English Civil War in the 1640's, there was almost a free-for-all in Ireland between (1) the Catholic Irish, (2) the Puritan English Parliamentarians (Roundheads) under Oliver Cromwell, (3) English Royalists (Cavaliers), and (4) the Presbyterian Scotch-Irish of northern Ireland. A general Catholic uprising in 1641, organized by the clergy with the aim of driving all Protestants out of Ireland, resulted in thousands of Protestant deaths and many more refugees. This revolt and the English reaction to it involved atrocities on both sides. Later, when England's pro- Catholic King James II was in power (1685-1688), many Anglo-Irish living out beyond the Pale had to evacuate their homes and flee to Dublin because London was not interested in protecting them from the wrath of the Catholic Irish. The Protestant army of King William of England (Williamites) and the Catholic forces of the deposed James II (Jacobites) engaged each other in fierce battles in Ireland from 1688 to 1691. There was much chaos and bloodshed until the Treaty of Limerick in 1691. It is no understatement to say that between 1641 and 1691, Anglo- Irish enclaves in counties where the Millers and Caulfields lived, such as Roscommon, Clare, and Limerick, were not places for the faint-of-heart. Castles, strengthened manor houses, and fortified confiscated abbeys were more than just impressive places to live; they were refuges of safety and strongholds for counterattacks during these eternal uprisings. What did the Millers and other Anglo-Irish do in Ireland for hundreds of years? Many of them were landed gentry, gentlemen managers of their agricultural estates where they built their manor houses. Their jobs were to tell other people what their jobs were. They served as officers in militia units that were called up to put down mischief by rebellious Catholic Irishmen. They also performed local administrative functions such as magistrates and assessors, in addition to being lay-officials in their Protestant churches after the Reformation. The Anglo-Irish comprised the majority of members in the Irish Parliament, subordinate to the English Parliament, of course.