Mary Miller

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Date of birth might be 1564.

GEDCOM Note

Biography ==Mary Pilston/Pylston, "doubtless the daughter of William and Agnes (Elliot) Pilston of Bishop's Stortford."<ref name=TAG73>The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 73, p. 57</ref>

Mary Pilston/Pylston married John Miller at Bishop's Stortford on November 21, 1585.<ref name=TAG73/><ref>England: Marriages, 1538-1973. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic GenealogicalSociety, 2014. (Original index: England Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch, 2014.</ref> Their son was Thomas Miller the immigrant of Middletown, Connecticut.<ref name=TAG73/> Mary Pilston/Pylston died April 6, 1621 at Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire, England.

Research Notes

Disputed Parents and Child ===: An article published by William Wyman Fiske in 2007 in The New England Historical and genealogical Register, Vol 161, page 280, shows thatcontrary to previous estimations, Thomas Miller the immigrant of Middletown, Connecticut was not the son of John and Mary (Pilston) Miller of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.<ref name="NEHGR161">Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire], by William Wyman Fiske, NEHGR Vol 161 (2207) page 280</ref> (They did have ason Thomas baptized 7 Nov 1609, however he was buried 23 April 1614, at which point his mother was probably past child bearing age.)<ref name="NEHGR161"/>

: NOTE: William Fiske shows that the will of Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston is evidence that she was the mother of Mary Pilston (and not Agnes (Eliot) Pilston. Thomas Miller needs to be disconnected as son of John and Mary (Pilston) Miller AND Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston needs to replace Agnes (Eliot) Pilston as the mother of Mary Pilston.

Sources

<references />* The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.) Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire, by William Wyman Fiske, NEHGR Vol 161 (2207) page 280

• The American Genealogist. New Haven, CT: D. L. Jacobus, 1937-. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009 - .) Vol. 73, p. 57.link for subscribers
• England: Marriages, 1538-1973. Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2014. (Original index: England Marriages, 1538-1973. FamilySearch, 2014.)link for subscribers

Acknowledgements===* WikiTree profile Pylston-6 created through the import of Ancestors of PBHowe.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Howe-1046 | Buck Howe. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Buck and others.

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Disputed Child

An article published by William Wyman Fiske in 2007 in The New England Historical and genealogical Register, Vol 161, page 280, (cited forThomas Miller by Anderson in The Great Migration Directory page 228) shows that contrary to previous estimations, Thomas Miller the immigrant of Middletown, Connecticut was not the son of John and Mary (Pilston) Miller of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire.Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston of Bishops Stortford, Hertfordshire], by William Wyman Fiske, NEHGR Vol 161 (2207) page 280 (They did have a son Thomas baptized 7 Nov 1609, however he was buried 23 April 1614, at which point his mother was probably past child bearing age.) : NOTE: William Fiske shows that the will of Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston is evidence that she was the mother of Mary Pilston (and not Agnes (Eliot) Pilston. Thomas Miller needs to be disconnected as son of John and Mary (Pilston) Miller AND Joan (____) (Wylley) Pilston needs to replace Agnes (Eliot) Pilston as the mother of Mary Pilston. : The birth date and the birth place for Thomas Miller have been disproved, along with the parents John and Mary (Pilston) Miller. That dataneeds to be vacant until research shows what should replace it. : The Family Tree for Thomas Miller should be vacant, and changes madeto his supposed mother's mother, as per evidence in the article by Fiske.

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Spencer Miller, "The Millers of Bishop's Stortford, co. Hets, England,", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society), Part1: 70:139-50, Part2 70:242-52 Part3 70:345-52 Part4 (1940):71:43-50

There is a good summary at 70:143-44. The author discusses the English Origins of Thomas Miller and the relationship of the Millers to other New England Families such as the Chandlers, Johnsons, Heaths, Jacobs and other families. This article has been cited and further information provided by William Wyman Fiske in TAG 79:6 (chart) and by Douglas Richardson in TAG 73:57. This information was not presented by Jewett, Holman or Savage. Thomas1 Miller, the immigrant, was bp 7 Nov 1609 in Bishop's Stortford one of 11 children of John and Mary (Pylston) Miller. His father married second to Agnes widow of Henry Chandler. One of Agnes' children was William Chandler who married Alice Thorowgood of Farnham and second to Annis Bayford and immigrated to Roxbury, MA. The author traces several generations of the family in England. relatives, the Denisons, had been residents of Roxbury, Mass., for two years. William Denison of Stortford married Margaret Chandler (bapt. 1577), a daughter of Tobias and Joane (Momford) Chandler, an own cousin of William Chandler, a stepbrother of Thomas Miller. Elizabeth (Miller) Heath of Roxbury after 1635 was a second cousin of Thomas Miller, son of "Long John" Miller (Father of Thomas Miller). That there was a close relation between Capt. Isaac Johnson of Roxbury and the Millers of Stortford and Roxbury is proven in the wills of both Elizabeth (Miller) Heath r664, and Margaret (Miller) Waterman in 1670. Both called Capt. Johnson, " my cousin." Some years later two granddaughters and one grandson of Capt. Isaac Johnson (children of Nathaniel) married two sons and one daughter of Thomas Miller of Middletown.