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Miller was the maiden name of my great-grandmother Dinah Kitty, and I have managed to trace her family back as far as Charles Miller who was born in around 1760. He married Ann Fenn in Harlestone, Northants in 1799.

The children of Charles and Ann were Mary (1800), Ann (1804), Elizabeth (1813), George (1815), Thomas (1818), Robert (1820) and William (1824-25).

Their son Thomas Miller married Dinah Arnold in 1840 in Courteenhall, Northants. Their children were Charles (1841), George (1842), Robert (1846) and Joseph (1851). After Dinah sadly died in 1853, Thomas married for a second time and married Sarah Cox in Hartwell, Bucks in 1854. They had two sons, Isaac (1855-58) and Thomas (1858).

Robert Miller, born in Hartwell in 1846 was the son of Thomas with Dinah Arnold. He married Mary Rainbow of Hanslope in Haversham, Bucks in 1873. They moved into Hanslope where all of their children were born. Their children were William George (1876), John (1878) and Dinah Kitty (1879).

Dinah Kitty Miller was my great-grandmother and she was born in Long Lane, Hanslope in 1879. She married John Charles Ager from North Crawley, in Haversham, Bucks on St. Valentines Day, 1903.

The Miller men were mostly tall and well built with often wavy blonde hair and blue eyes. These genes are still being passed down through the Henson family line to this day.

 
Hanslope

The Parish Church in Hanslope is dedicated to St. James the Great. It has a very large spire which is regarded as one of the best in Buckinghamshire and can be seen for miles around. The spire inspired (excuse the pun..) the following rhyme which has been sung by local children for many a year.

If Hanslope spire
  Was 10 times higher
I'd take off my shoe
  And jump over it.