Thomas came from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland according to his daughter Nancy's 1904 newspaper obituary. An exhaustive search of Belfast's public record office in May, 2008 uncovered no references whatever to Thomas Miller or his wife Mary Burton.
In 1832, the date corrobated by the same obituary and by his naturalization petition, Thomas brought his family to Carbondale, Pa after spending one to three years in Canada. No record of the family's time in Canada has been found, but immigration through Canada was rarely documented.
Thomas was a ropemaker and rigger by trade, and he took up a new job opportunity associated with coal transport from Carbondale. He worked for the D&H Canal Company's Gravity Railroad, where the chains originally used to pull loaded coal cars over Moosic Mountain (to the beginning of the D&H Canal at Honesdale) had frequently broken, and were soon replaced with hemp rope, coated with tar to reduce friction.
The family appears on early Trinity Episcopal Church records in 1835, the year their son William was born and only about three years after the first church records appeared. Thomas owned his own home by 1854 and in 1855 purchased a second home next door, probably for his daughter Mary Miller Lindsay who had just been widowed.
In 1832, the date corrobated by the same obituary and by his naturalization petition, Thomas brought his family to Carbondale, Pa after spending one to three years in Canada. No record of the family's time in Canada has been found, but immigration through Canada was rarely documented.
Thomas was a ropemaker and rigger by trade, and he took up a new job opportunity associated with coal transport from Carbondale. He worked for the D&H Canal Company's Gravity Railroad, where the chains originally used to pull loaded coal cars over Moosic Mountain (to the beginning of the D&H Canal at Honesdale) had frequently broken, and were soon replaced with hemp rope, coated with tar to reduce friction.
The family appears on early Trinity Episcopal Church records in 1835, the year their son William was born and only about three years after the first church records appeared. Thomas owned his own home by 1854 and in 1855 purchased a second home next door, probably for his daughter Mary Miller Lindsay who had just been widowed.
Thomas came from County Tyrone, Northern Ireland according to his daughter Nancy's 1904 newspaper obituary. An exhaustive search of Belfast's public record office in May, 2008 uncovered no references whatever to Thomas Miller or his wife Mary Burton.
In 1832, the date corrobated by the same obituary and by his naturalization petition, Thomas brought his family to Carbondale, Pa after spending one to three years in Canada. No record of the family's time in Canada has been found, but immigration through Canada was rarely documented.
Thomas was a ropemaker and rigger by trade, and he took up a new job opportunity associated with coal transport from Carbondale. He worked for the D&H Canal Company's Gravity Railroad, where the chains originally used to pull loaded coal cars over Moosic Mountain (to the beginning of the D&H Canal at Honesdale) had frequently broken, and were soon replaced with hemp rope, coated with tar to reduce friction.
The family appears on early Trinity Episcopal Church records in 1835, the year their son William was born and only about three years after the first church records appeared. Thomas owned his own home by 1854 and in 1855 purchased a second home next door, probably for his daughter Mary Miller Lindsay who had just been widowed.
In 1832, the date corrobated by the same obituary and by his naturalization petition, Thomas brought his family to Carbondale, Pa after spending one to three years in Canada. No record of the family's time in Canada has been found, but immigration through Canada was rarely documented.
Thomas was a ropemaker and rigger by trade, and he took up a new job opportunity associated with coal transport from Carbondale. He worked for the D&H Canal Company's Gravity Railroad, where the chains originally used to pull loaded coal cars over Moosic Mountain (to the beginning of the D&H Canal at Honesdale) had frequently broken, and were soon replaced with hemp rope, coated with tar to reduce friction.
The family appears on early Trinity Episcopal Church records in 1835, the year their son William was born and only about three years after the first church records appeared. Thomas owned his own home by 1854 and in 1855 purchased a second home next door, probably for his daughter Mary Miller Lindsay who had just been widowed.
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