My Great Great Grandfather James Miller was born in Dummerston Vermont in 1783, late in the 18th century, His early were spent in Dummerston and he married there in 1806. It was from Dummerston that he and his wife and. their 4 children emmigrated to Ohio in.18.14 or 1815,, approximately a 6 week journey. The young family settled in central Ohio in Licking County on the Licking River. James and Sarah’s family increased with the birth of 9 more children. My grandfather Charles Dana Miller was the 12th born in 1836.

Years ago in the late 1960’s we moved to Dublin in Ireland. We were newly married and expecting our first child. As an enthusiastic reader, I got hooked on reading about English history, in the form of the books by Jean Plaidy. Now 50 plus years later I find myself hooked on a history reading spree again. This time the author is Phillippa Gregory and I am reading about the Tudors and the Plantagenets. We are now living in Seattle, Washington, far from the British Isles, but my interest in that far Northwest corner of Europe is enduring. After all we came from there, recently and my ancestors 400 years ago.

And this is what I found