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Our Great Grandfather
Farmer
Bawnlea Kilcooly, Tipperary.
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Based on his daughter Mary Anne's stories he was a kind and loving father and husband.

Peter's first wife was Elizabeth Smee. She passed away after the couple had seven children. Elizabeth Smee is my Great Grandmother.

1884 - Lizzie Miller Dursley of Canada
1884 - George Miller of Canada
1886 - Mary Anne Miller Cole of Connecticut USA
1888 - Thomas J. Miller - Killed in WW1
1889 - Peter Miller of Canada
Margaret Miller
Ellen K. Miller of Kilcooley

After Elizabeth passed away, he married Maria Semple Miller and they had seven/eight? children:

John Miller of Devon, England
Nicholas of Devon, England
Wesley of Canada
Minnie Miller of Devon, England
Emily
Robert
Frederick
Possibly a James Miller of Devon, England

1901 and 1911 Irish Census.
Mary Anne, Thomas J. Ellen, Margaret, John R. Nicholas J., Wesley S. Minnie, Emily, Robert H., and Fred R.

By 1911 Mary Anne and Thomas J. were already out of the house working and no longer listed. The children left at home ranged in age from 19 years old to infants.

Also listed in the census was that the parents and their older children could "read and write" and were Methodists.

The following is a list of gravestone inscriptions from the "new" graveyard at Kilcooley parish Church,Co.Tipperary.

Peter Miller.Died 1930 aged 71.
Minnie Miller(nee Semple)1871-1957.
Robert Henry Miller 1909-1937.
Frederick Richard Miller 1910-1945.
Herbert Gratton Miller 1911-1916.

Sometime before 1911, Peter's brother George, an unmarried RIC pensioner, joined the family home and was listed as 47 years old, single, could read and write and was a Methodist.

1901 Irish Census
Residents of a house 1 in Bawnlea (Kilcooly, Tipperary)
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Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion
Miller Peter 41 Male Head of Family Methodist
Miller Maria 31 Female Wife Methodist
Miller Mary Anne 14 Female Daughter Methodist
Miller Thomas J 12 Male Son Methodist
Miller Ellen Kate 9 Female Daughter Methodist
Miller Margret 7 Female Daughter Methodist

1911 Irish Census
Residents of a house 2 in Bawnlea (Kilcooly, Tipperary)
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Surname Forename Age Sex Relation to head Religion
Miller Peter 51 Male Head of Family Methodist
Miller Maria 40 Female Wife Methodist
Miller Ellen K 19 Female Daughter Methodist
Miller John R 10 Male Son Methodist
Miller Nicholas J 8 Male Son Methodist
Miller Wesley S 7 Male Son Methodist
Miller Minnie 5 Female Daughter Methodist
Miller Emily 3 Female Daughter Methodist
Miller Robert H 2 Male Son Methodist
Miller Fred R Male Son Methodist
Miller George 47 Male Brother Methodist


________Census of Ireland 1911 Building
Form B.1. - House and Building Return
Tipperary
Poor Law Union, Urlingford
District Electorial Division, Kilcooly
Townland, Bawnlea
Urban District ----
Town or Village ----
Street -----
Barony, Slievardogh
Parish, Kilcooly
Number of Building - 1
Whether Built or Building - Built
State whether Private Dwelling, etc - Private Dwelling
Number of Out-Offices and Farm-steadings - 7
Is home inhabited - Yes
Walls - are either Stone, Brick or Concrete
Roof - is either Slate, iron or Tiles
Rooms - 7 to 9
Windows in Front - 7
Class of ouse - 1st Class
No. of distinct families in house - 1
Name of head of house - Peter Miller
No of rooms occupied by family - 7
Total No of persons in family - 11
Date which Form A was collected - April 16th
Name of te Landholder - Peter Miller
No on Form if House is on the holding of a land holder - 2

___Out Offices and Farm Steadings

Stable, Cow House, Calf House, Piggery, Fowl House, Barn, Store

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THANK YOU TO DAVID C. FOR RECORDING THIS GRAVESITE AND TO ALMA C. AND DAVID C. FOR THE BEAUTIFUL PHOTOGRAPHS.
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Notes on Bawnlea from the internet: Bawnlea is 259 acres, and is sort of "lumpy-lozenge shaped", a mile and a half at its longest (NE-SW) and about a half mile wide. The Grange to Commons road runs through the western third of the townland and, based on the aerial photography for the map in 1973, there were about a dozen buildings in the townland at that time - all of them along a half-mile stretch of this road. There also appears to be an isolated possible building in the eastern part of the townland, and there is a track shown on the map which approaches it. Booleying hut? It looks as if the highest elevation in the townland, Knocknamuck, is also the highest elevation in the Slievardagh Hills - over 1100 feet.
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