Kerry Mills Pillows

Description: Mills_English The name 'Mills' originates from England and Scotland. it is a derivative of the name 'Mill' a topographic name for someone who lived near a mill, from the word smilles, tmilner, 'mylen(e)' (from the word 'manna', a derivative of 'molere' which means to grind). It was usually in effect as an occupational name for a worker at a mill and indeed for the miller himself. Variants: 'Mille, 'Miln(e); 'Mills', (the commonest form of this name), 'Milles', 'Millis, 'Miln(e)s; 'Mil(I)man', 'Mullen'. Compiled information from Historical and Private archives has confirmed that the surname 'Mills' and or its variants dates as far back as the 13th century, when a 'Roger atte Mille', from the County of Oxfordshire, England, is recorded.