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WILLIAM GEORGE
PERCIVAL MILLER and NORAH MILLER 1881
1881
1895
With golf and shooting (Willie Miller got his first woodcock) fun and games continued at
Thistleton and Singleton, … [1] 1895 Tommy's
next saloon coach conveyed a large party, including many ladies, from Belfast to
Portrush on Monday morning 17 May after a rough crossing from Fleetwood. Jessop,
Brada and young Willie Miller were
among those present, determined to combine the Ladies Irish Open Championship
with a little sight-seeing and some golf for themselves. [2] 1896
[This] year, Willie's twenty first, with lots of golf on the new links and plans
for the new clubhouse, romance was blossoming to the click of the cleek. Up to
London for the Quilters' dance on 9 July, where he took Brada into supper,
escorted her back in a hansom and to Eton v Harrow at Lord's during the next two
days. Back home there was boating with him on the lake at Hulton Park and for
his birthday at Thistleton on Sunday 25 October all the family were there.
1896
On Sunday the continuous ringing of the bells at Singleton Parish Church
announced to the villagers that Mr W. G. P. Miller, eldest son of Mrs W. P.
Miller, of Merlewood, had come of age. The Miller family have been long resident
in the Fylde, and Singleton (where Mr and Mrs T. H. Miller reside) and
Thistleton are invariably described as the model villages of the Fylde. It was
only natural that the tenants on both estates, but more particularly those at
Thistleton, should take the utmost possible interest in Sunday's event. The
celebrations were postponed till Monday, when the peals were again sent forth
from the belfry of Singleton Church. It is but three years since Mrs W. P.
Miller was left a widow with four sons and two daughters. Mr W. G. P. Miller,
whose "majority" has been celebrated this week has evinced the
greatest possible interest in his tenantry, and has shown every desire to follow
in his lamented father's footsteps. To mark Sunday's joyous event, the tenantry,
even down to the smallest cottager on the estate, contributed towards the
purchase of a handsome oak clock, which was presented to the younger squire at a
dinner held on Monday at the Miller's Arms, Singleton. [16] 1897
had begun as usual at Singleton; lots of fun, golf, pantomimes with the
Millers and five dances and supper with Willie
at the Preston Royal Infirmary Ball. Brada, who had been taking singing lessons
for some time made her first stage appearance, singing solos for his mother's
concert in the Village Hall. Young
Willie Miller, now an Old Harrovian, arranged tickets for the Eton v Harrow
match at Lords Again too it had been supper with Willie at the
Quilters' July dance and
doubtless friendly badinage between Millers (Harrow) and Hultons and
Hulton-Harrops in the latter's coach, Hugh de Lacy then being an Eton boy of
seventeen. On October 4 Brada received a nasty shock when a letter
from Mrs Willie Miller to Papa said that her son Willie was engaged to Miss
Norah Quilter. 1897 Lindale Jubilee rejoicings. The various committees are now well in hand with the proceedings… Mr W Miller, who is chairman, is sending a supply | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||