1806 BAPTISM
Richard Mill (aka Mills), son of Jane Wills and John Mill,[1]
baptized 25 December 1806 in Bridgerule, Cornwall, England.[2]
1827 MARRIAGE
Richard Mill, resident of St Gennys, and Maria Bayly [Bailey],
resident of Warbstow, married by banns 8 September 1827 in Warbstow Parish Church, Cornwall; witnessed by Richard Bailey and William Burgoyne. [3]
1841 England & Wales Census
Otterham Town, Cornwall, England [5]
Richard Mill, 30, b Cornwall, blacksmith
Maria Mill, 30, b Cornwall
Elizabeth Mill, 12, b Cornwall
Mary Mill, 4, b Cornwall
Emigration - England to USA
Richard and Maria Mill and their daughters Elizabeth and Mary Jane were at sea when Maria gave birth to John in about September 1844. [6]Lenna Cory Eckenrod wrote, "Grandma Mills was the only Bailey girl to come to America."[7]
1850 US Census Cold Spring, Jefferson, Wisconsin [8]
Richard Mills, 44, b England, farmer, $1000 real estate
Maria Mills, 42, b England
Mary J Mills, 14, b England
John Mills, 6, b England
Richard Mills, 3, b Wisconsin
1854 DEATH AND BURIAL
Richard Mill, 48, died 6 September 1854 in Wisconsin;
buried Zion Cemetery, Oak Hill, Jefferson County, Wisconsin.[4]
He is buried in Row 1 in Zion Cemetery with wife Maria,
son John Bell Mill, son Richard H Mill and wife Mary (Sockerson), granddaughter Lenna M Mill, and daughter Elizabeth (Mill) Taylor.[9]
Sources
↑Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database, Marriages, Record for John MILL and Jane WILLS, Date 05 Nov 1802, Place Marhamchurch, Witnesses William ? and Honor Coumbe, Banns, Transcriber Kenneth S Heard
↑Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database, Baptisms, Record for Richard MILL, Date 25 Dec1806, Place Bridgerule, Father John, Mother Janet, Transcriber Judith Upton
↑Cornwall Online Parish Clerk Database, Marriages, Record for Maria BAYLY and Richard MILL, Date 8 Sep 1827, Place Warbstow, Witnesses Richard Bailey and William Burgoyne, Banns,Transcriber C Dean/M Cordrey
↑ 4.04.1 Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64593913/richard-mill : accessed 24 August 2021), memorial page for Richard Mill (1806–6 Sep 1854), Find a Grave Memorial ID 64593913, citing Zion Cemetery, Oak Hill, Jefferson County, Wisconsin, USA ; Maintained by bailey (contributor 47198252) .
↑ "England and Wales Census, 1841," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MQYY-4SK : 23 May 2019), Richard Mill, Otterham, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom; from "1841 England, Scotland and Wales census," database and images, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : n.d.); citing PRO HO 107, The National Archives, Kew, Surrey.
↑ Letter from Lenna Cory Eckenrod to Fay Cory Perrin, author of 1955 "The Cory Family History."
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M4DV-TMR : 23 December 2020), Richard Mills, Cold Spring, Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States; citing family , NARA microfilm publication (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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