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Updated June 9, 2019

Family name origins & meanings

  • English (chiefly West Midlands) : occupational name for someone in charge of a mill, from Old English mylen ‘mill’ + weard ‘guardian’. In southern England and the West Midlands this was a standard medieval term for a miller. Compare Miller.

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