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"Shamrock"        Tony's Family Photo Album                                                 (I am Irish through and through!)                                                           "Erin go braugh!"                                                                                          ...and, like Popeye sez;  "I yam what I yam"                                                                     (Click on ole Popeye!)             ~ Here on this page are some random pictures of me,                                        Emil T. (Tony) Miller                                     my ancestral and my immediate family,                              & a few of my old friends and schoolmates... ► NOTE:  The music on this page is the beautiful rendition of "Begin the Beguine" by Ernesto Cortizar ◄                                           My Great Grandparents         Daddy (left)                 Me & Grandfather      Grandmother Miller      Me, my Mother & George Walton Miller       Emil Fernoy Miller,        "Papa"- Elbert Miller   Tina (Bowman) Miller            Daddy & Sarah (Evans) Miller  Herschel, Stanley, G.B.                                             and Ray (youngest)                      (Click to enlarge the pictures!)                      Uncle Ray Miller             Daddy               Mother - age 15            Mother             Daddy & Mother & fav. hunting dog   Emil Fernoy Miller        Mary Montez (Brock) Miller           about when married       "Jack"                                                       (Click to enlarge the pictures!)       ►          *My 1st Grade Class *Tony and Brother  High School Prom   Tony, about 1994     Stone Mountain College St. School      Kenny Miller               Tony &                                                (in Georgia)                                                         (*) Jonnie Sue Gouge (*) - Click here for more of Jonnie Sue (Click to enlarge the pictures!)                                                               Horry Brock           James R. Brock       W.W.C. Brock,       GrMother Lucille       Grandfather Homeplace, family       family-1904          & wife Effie Lucille         at age 15         W.W.C. Brock & & my GGG'mother  (My Gr.Grndfather)   (Matthews) Brock                                  brother Clarence Francis (Hogan) Brock                     (Tony'sGrFather&GrMother) (on Pleasant Ridge Rd, C'ton)                                                ~ ~ (Click to Enlarge  the Pics) ~ ~                                             ►            My mother (Rt)      Clarence Brock - 1944       (*)Carrollton, Ga -               My only brother -           and her siblings       being visited by Holly-          1947 - view of          Kenneth Austin Miller,                                          wood celebs - Bob Hope   Adamson Square                   1942   -   1991                                                                                                              -with his wife Kerry & adopted                                                                                                     son Terrell. He is holding our daughter                                                                                                                             Sundi Lynn Miller                                                            "The Power be With You"                                              (Click to Enlarge)                                                                                        Donnie Styles (L)   *College Freshman     In the Army -      ...in the Mohave        Emil T. Miller         U.S. Navy,                  - Tony -                  (middle)           - leaning into the           (Tony)         Korean War     West Georgia College    Ft. Ord, Calif.              wind...             - about age 30         (My Cousin)                                                                              (Click to Enlarge)                                     This is a drawing by my Grandfather on           Mother's side;  William Wiley Clifton Brock.            This man was talented in many ways such as           his gifted drawings, cartoons and illustrations           like the one shown here. His amazing talent           remains undiscovered, and how unfortunate.         William Wiley Clifton Brock                       ...like most Irish, he had 4 names         (This is my Grandfather on Mother's side)                                       ~ Click Here   ...for more pictures of Tony, and his Friends                                                                                                                                                            ~ Here are my Scotch/Irish               Family Coats of Arms                                  and brief ancestral backgrounds ~                                 ~ (all ancestors on both sides of my family are Irish) ~   * Father's side:    (Miller - Bowman)                * Miller ~ O’Miller  & Coat of Arms (A Miller - one who mills grain)      The “O” means “of” or “son of” Miller.  (can also mean grandson of Miller)  ORIGIN: Ireland (County Antrim) - Prior origin: Scottish, Clan: McFarlane McFarlane CLAN MOTTO:  "This I will defend"  -  In Gaelic:   (still researching) Ancient Gaelic spelling: Ó Muilleoir Miller:  One who attends a grist-mill, a grinder of grain specifically for others, possibly one of three most ancient of names, going back to the time just after Adam and Eve.   Meillear: (later Gaelic spelling), a merchant; Maillor: Gaelic, from maille, armor, and fear, a man;  a man in armor, having a coat of mail, a soldier.      The O'Miller family can trace their roots back to the ancient territories of the Scottish/English "Border Ridings" between the 11th and 12th centuries.  Their ancestral roots go back to Strathclyde Briton origin, and first appeared in ancient medieval records in Dumfrieshire.  On the O'Miller family scroll it is seen that from very early on the O'Miller family not only held lands and estates in the Scottish English Border Ridings, but were also actively allied with other influential families.  They also branched out into other territories and holdings before some took the long voyage to the New World.   * Bowman  & Coat of Arms (An Archer) English and Scottish: occupational name for an archer, Middle English bow(e)man, bouman (from Old English boga ‘bow’ + mann ‘man’). This word was distinguished from Bowyer, which denoted a maker or seller of the articles. It is possible that in some cases the surname referred originally to someone who untangled wool with a bow. This process, which originated in Italy, became quite common in England in the 13th century. The vibrating string of a bow was worked into a pile of tangled wool, where its rapid vibrations separated the fibers, while still leaving them sufficiently entwined to produce a fine, soft yarn when spun. Americanized form of German Baumann (see Bauer) or the Dutch cognate Bouman.      [NOTE:  Sadly, my genealogy work on the Miller side of my family has about ground to a halt.  I am hoping to have more response form some of the surviving family (mostly cousins) than I have had so far.  Hopefully when they see this site they will be more motivated to respond.  But the fact is that neither the Millers nor Bowmans of my father's generation were much inclined to family matters such as reunions, picture-taking, or passing down family information.  We visited some while my Miller grandparents were alive, but after they passed away family visitation and keeping up with each other became almost non-existent.  I guess I am as guilty as any, even though my excuse is that I was several states away from most of them for the last 47 years.      At any rate I am hoping my son Emil Maxwell Miller (Max) and daughters Sundi Lynn (Miller) Howell and Mary Tomica Miller (Meeky), who are all very computer-literate and can use this wonderful tool for ancestry research, will get interested and take up this effort.]                                              ...ETM   * Mother's side:  (Brock - Matthews)                                                             * Brock  & Coat of Arms (Badger - wiley, fierce fighter)                                                From the Saxon; Broc, a Badger.   Broch, in Gaelic or Irish, Welsh has the same meaning.  Spelling variations include: Broc, Brock, Brocke, Brockes, Brocks, Brock, O’Brock, Brockx, Broek, and many more.        Some of the first settlers of this name were: REUBIN BROCK (*), exact date and place unknown, Hans Brock who landed in Canada in 1619; Henry Brock landed in Massachusetts in 1640; James Brock settled in Virginia in 1651; John Brock settled in Delaware in 1682; and many others.                Motto: Virescit vulnere virtus                Motto Translated:  "Courage grows stronger at the wound."   (*) NOTE:  Refer to my Brock/Genealogy Memorybooks - this is our ancestor whose son fought in the American Revolution which gained our independence from England and established us as a country.                                             <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><>                                               * Matthews & Coat of Arms  (Gift of God)                                 From the Gaelic or Irish; Matthews, Gift of God. Spelling variations include: Matthew, Mathew, Mathow, Matthews, Matthewson, Mathewes, Matheus; & many more. First found in in the Domesday Book in 1086, listed as Mathiu and Matheus.      Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Samuel Mathew, who settled in East New Jersey in 1684. Elander Matthews settled in Virginia in 1719. Andrew Mathew was banished to a plantation on Martinque in 1747 after the Scottish defeat at the Battle of Culloden Moor. Other Scottish immigrants include George Matthew, who settled in St. John, New Brunswick between 1749 and 1800, John Mathew, who immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1750, John Matthews, who was sent to America as a bonded passenger in 1770, Bayard Matthews, who immigrated to Nova Scotia in 1784, and Agnes Mathew, who settled in Nova Scotia between 1799 and 1820.                  Motto:  Omne solum viro patria est.                Motto Translated:  "Every country is a home for a man."   NOTE:   Here I wish to advise family members that siblings Bill Johnson and Earline (Powers) Johnson of the Edgar Matthews and Pearl Brock marriage, have gone to Ireland and physically been to the church attended by our original Matthews descendant, and viewed the graves of his (our) family who are buried there.  These two are a wealth of information on both the Brock and Matthews family genealogies, as well as our beloved Mote family.  Do NOT fail to contact  these two if you are working on our ancestry.  And as well, contact me too, because I have exhaustively put together three (3) big books on these families and there is a wealth of old photographs and many other items and things of compelling interest recorded in them.  I will make a copy of these books available to anyone for only the cost of the materials required to reproduce them on my computer/printing equipment.                                                    Emil T. (Tony) Miller                             (son of Emil Fernoy Miller and Mary Montez (Brock Miller)                                                          (*) NOTE:   For those friends and family who do not know my personal email address, you can email me here:     Tony@books-n-sundries.com   (I want to hear from you)                                                                                   ....Emil T. (Tony ) Miller                                                                                                                    Home                                                                                         Back to Top Page   {This Website was Designed and Created by ©Tony Miller}     ~ Shamrock Creations ~     "Nice websites at sensible prices"            Contact:    1Shamrock@bigfoot.com                                                                                      © All Copyrights, Emil T. 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