Sarah (Miller) Fleming (1887 - 1959)

Born 16 Dec 1887 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Wife of Thomas Fleming — married 23 Sep 1918 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Died 3 Aug 1959 at age 71 in Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States

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Biography

Sarah (Miller) Fleming was born in Scotland.

Sarah was born December 16, 1887 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, the daughter of John Fraser Miller and Margaret Hetherington.

She married Pvt Thomas Fleming on September 23, 1918 at her parents' home at 125 Montrose Street in the St Rollox district in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland. She was 30 years old, a spinster and her occupation was stay maker. Her parents were Robert Fraser Miller, newspaper printer (journeyman) and Margaret Hetherington Miller, maiden surname Boyd. The groom was 34 years old, a bachelor, a clerk and presently on active service and a Private with the 75th Battalion, Canadian Infantry. His parents Archibald Fleming and Mary Kerr were both deceased. ^[1]

U. S. RECORD of ALIENS PRE-EXAMINED in CANADA

Name: Sarah Fleming (with husband Thomas Fleming) ^[2]

Race: Scotch (Scotish)

Nationality: Scotland

Age: 31

Birth Date: abt 1888

Birth Place: Glasgow, Scotland

Marital Status: Married

Arrival Date: 11 Aug 1919

Pre-Examination Date: 11 Aug 1919

Pre-Examination Location: St John, New Brunswick, Canada

Last Perm. Address: 125 Montrose Street in Glasgow, Scotland

Father: Robert Fraser Miller of same address

Sarah died at the age of 71 on August 4, 1959 at Riverside Hospital in New Castle county, Delaware and was buried on August 8th in Edgewood Memorial Park in Glen Mills, Delaware county, Pennsylvania, USA.^[3]

Research Notes

On their marriage record, Sarah's mother's name was given as Margaret Hetherington Miller, maiden surname Boyd but this is NOT correct.

Her mother was actually born Margaret Hetherington and although her mother married James Boyd when Margaret was only 2 years old, she still was listed as Margaret Hetherington for the 1871 and 1881 Census years. (MacKechnie-21 18:15, 3 June 2022 (UTC))

Sources

1. ↑ "Scotland Statutory Registers - Marriages" database, National Records of Scotland, ScotlandsPeople (https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/ : accessed 03 Jun 2022), Thomas Fleming and Sarah Miller, 1918, St Rollox; citing Parish Number 644, Reference Number: 8 170.
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. U.S., Records of Aliens Pre-Examined in Canada, 1904-1954 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
3. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #166724351

• "United States Border Crossings from Canada to United States, 1895-1956", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XPMG-HM8 : 14 November 2019), Sarah Fleming, 1919.

• "United States Census, 1920", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M6BB-JRZ : 3 February 2021), Sarah Fleming in entry for Thomas Fleming, 1920.

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHSD-V7C : accessed 3 June 2022), Sarah Fleming in household of Thomas Fleming, Lower Chichester, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 84, sheet 15B, line 72, family 318, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2031; FHL microfilm 2,341,765.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KQF6-6KD : 9 December 2019), Sarah Fleming in household of Thomas Fleming, Lower Chichester Township, Delaware, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 23-106, sheet 6B, line 77, family 113, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 3493.