Remarkable. Only possible on the internet.

I have found and not found descendants of James Miller, whose emigration with his family I traced from Shropshire to Canada in 1884. Searching for a lost copy of a photograph of Donnington House, and discovering that the original site from which I downloaded the copy was no longer live, I did a wider search.

Finding …. a watercolour of Donnington House  by Lucy Miller. James’ wife? His daughter – shortly to young to have drawn the house from life? ….. on a blog, “Miller Fryer” . Here are pictures of the family of James Miller. Most remarkable a photograph from maybe 1915 of all his 6 sons. 

But utterly frustrating is that postings to the blog were only kept up in 2007 – and the author of the blog is known as “Barista” – who has posted no profile details nor any contact information!

So, I left a comment on one of the pictures. Maybe Barista will one day return to the blog? Or maybe see this posting? In which, case cousin, please do leave a message.

James Miller (1843 Atcham Shropshire), nephew of John Miller, (1797-1831), my 3x Great-Grandfather

I will from time to time leave notes here on what I’ve been up to as far as updating the tree.

Most recently, I’ve done some work on basic entries for the family of Richard William Perrin (1857).

I also had a fresh look at Richard Miller and Anna Ward, parents of John Miller (1797) whose sister Anna married Richard Bayley, whose 1813 schoolboy copybook we still have, in bureau with ’secret drawers’ that was made for or belonged to Richard Bayley.

Richard Miller, “of Halesowen” when he married Anna, is something of a stumbling block. Anna Ward offers at least her parents. Richard and Anna had seven known children.