{"id":4328,"date":"2011-05-09T14:06:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T04:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fanningfamilyhistory.com\/?p=4328"},"modified":"2020-06-10T00:50:12","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T00:50:12","slug":"miller-knighton-family-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/2011\/05\/09\/miller-knighton-family-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Miller and Knighton Family History, Richmond Victoria Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Mary<\/a>
Mary Miller nee Knighton, my mother’s aunt.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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My mother’s aunt, Mary Knighton, married Henry William Miller in Richmond, Melbourne,Victoria on February 15, 1916, during the time of the First World War. He was 21, she was 20 years old.<\/p>\n

Mary was the daughter of William Knighton and\u00a0Margaret\u00a0“Maggie” Torpey. Her mother had died giving birth to Mary. Her elder brother, James, was my grandfather.<\/p>\n

\"Margaret<\/a>
Maggie Torpey 1863-1896<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Jim<\/a>
Mary’s brother James Knighton. He was born in 1894 and died in 1945<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Mary<\/a>
Mary Miller nee Knighton,1896-1964<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Henry<\/a>
Henry Edward Miller, “Harry”, 1894-1986<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Mary and Harry had four sons: James Henry, Edward Vivian, Henry\u00a0William\u00a0and Bruce Leonard. My mother was close to Ted her cousin and I remember him and his wife Ann.<\/p>\n

Harry’s father, also called Harry, but nicknamed “Darkie” lived on the west coast of Tasmania. He was a well known athlete and boxer.<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/a><\/p>\n

Young Harry Miller 1864-1953<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/a>
Harry Darkie Miller 1864-1953<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harry<\/a>
Harry Darkie Miller Zeehan & Dundas Herald 24 June 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Harry<\/a>
Harry Miller Fight 1904 Hobart Mercury<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Harry<\/a>
1921 Hobart Mercury Benefit for Harry Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Harry<\/a>
Harry Miller The Mercury Hobart 21 August 1921<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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He is also said to have been a circus circus performer but I have no evidence of this.<\/p>\n

\"Lydia<\/a>
Lydia England 1876-1895 mother of Harry Miller who married Mary Knighton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

His first wife Lydia died young.<\/p>\n

He remarried Isabella Kalmbach\u00a0and had three more children\u00a0with her in Zeehan on the west coast of Tasmania.<\/p>\n

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Ted Miller was the grandson of Harry Miller “Darkie”and the second son of Mary Knighton and\u00a0Henry\u00a0Edward Miller. Ted was born in 1919 and died in 1992 in Victoria.<\/p>\n

Electoral records show that in 1942 Ted was working as a polisher and living at 126 Elizabeth St Richmond with his parents and brother James. His father worked as a masseur with a football club. Not sure which one?? anyone know…probably Richmond.\u00a0James was in the boot trade. Ted lived here until his marriage to Ann Edwina Tribe. They lived in Bentleigh until after 1977 when they moved to Arthur’s Creek Diamond Valley Victoria.<\/p>\n

During the Second World War Ted was in the medical section of the Royal Australian Air Force.<\/p>\n

\"Edward<\/a>
Service Record of Ted Miller WW2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ted was injured during the war. While he was convalescing he decided that he wanted to train as a nurse.<\/p>\n

He was an early graduate of the St Vincent’s School of Nursing. He went on to hold senior nursing positions including nurse in charge of the Microsurgery Unit and of the Bolte Rehabilitation\u00a0Center\u00a0 His career also included several\u00a0years spent\u00a0in British Columbia Canada in the early 1960s to obtain obstetric nurse training.<\/p>\n

His wife Ann was also a nurse. They met while they were training at St Vincent’s Hospital.<\/p>\n

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\"Ted<\/a>
Graduation photo St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne 1951, The Melbourne Sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Edward<\/a>
Edward Vivian Ted Miller Passes Nursing Exam The Argus 23 Nov 1951<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ted<\/a>
Ted Miller, on the right, with fellow workers at St Vincent’s Hospital Melbourne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ted is also mentioned in Mary Sheehan’s “A Professional Pathway: Nursing at St Vincent’s since 1893” 2005:<\/p>\n

“Another St Vincent’s early male graduate was Edward (Ted) Miller. After graduation in 1951, Ted worked in all the male wards at St Vincent’s, with the exception of St Columba’s, then seen to be fellow graduate Gerard Hennessy’s domain.<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1960 Ted, determined to further his skills, was keen to commence midwifery training. When he approached the matron of the Royal Women’s Hospital, he was advised to drop nursing and study medicine – the idea being that, in his fourth year of medicine, he would be sent to the Royal Women’s for six weeks to do obstetrics, and then he could quit medicine and go back to nursing. Ted was similarly rebuffed by the Victorian Nursing Council. He and his wife Ann (nee Tribe, also a nurse) resolved to travel to Canada where Ted was accepted for a course in obstetrics in British\u00a0Columbia.”<\/em><\/p>\n

The article below was published in a Canadian B.C. newspaper on September 23 1962 and kindly sent to me by the St Vincent’s Hospital archivist:<\/p>\n

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Ann and Ted Miller in Canada<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Below are\u00a0photos\u00a0of Ted’s three brothers:<\/p>\n

\"Henry<\/a>
Henry William Miller 1921-2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"James<\/a>
James Henry Miller 1916-1976<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Bruce<\/a>
Bruce Leonard Miller 1923-1968<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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\"Harry<\/a><\/p>\n

Harry and Jimmy Miller Boxing<\/p>\n

\"Harry<\/a>
Harry Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Harry<\/a>
Harry Miller Snr, second fr right, Harry jnr, schoolboy in Melbourne High School uniform<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All of the Miller brothers, Ted, Harry, Jimmy and Bruce, enlisted and served in WW2.<\/p>\n

\"James<\/a>
WW2 Service Record of James Henry Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Henry<\/a>
WW2 Service Record for Henry William Miller<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bruce<\/a>
Bruce Leonard Miller Service Record WW2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Miller<\/a>
Ted, Jimmy, Bruce and Harry Miller\u00a0in Uniform WW2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ted<\/a>
Ted and Jimmy Miller WW2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Bruce<\/a>
Bruce and Harry Miller WW2<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\"Charles<\/a>Descendants of Charles Miller Report 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mary Knighton 1896-1964 married Henry Miller son of Darky Miller of Zeehan Tasmania in Melbourne in 1916. They had four sons. Included are clippings relating to Harry Miller sen and Ted Miller his grandson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[231,269,399,414,476,650,687],"class_list":["post-4328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miller","tag-descendant-report","tag-england","tag-kalmbach","tag-knighton","tag-miller","tag-tribe","tag-zeehan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fanningfamilyhistory.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}