| Father: | George Miller (28 Feb 1801 - 1 Mar 1865) |
| Mother: | Jane Whitehead (4 Feb 1800 - after 1871) |
| Birth: | 1834 in Wilmington, Kent |
| Death: | 27 December 1901 |
| Burial: | unknown |
| Married: | James Booker The Parish Church, Northfleet |
| Children: | William George Miller (29 July 1853 - 12 February 1931) George Booker (1858 - ) James Booker (1865 - ) Alfred Booker (1869 - ) Louis (Lewis) Booker (1869 - ) Henry (Harry) Booker (1874 - ) Albert Booker (1876 - ) |
Elizabeth Miller, the youngest child of George Miller and Jane Whitehead, was born in 1834 in Wilmington, Kent. From the date of her birth until after the 1851 census Elizabeth was living with her parents in Wilmington. The 1851 census actually gives the family address as 1 Orange Tree Row, Wilmington. In 1853 she gave birth to her illegitimate son, William George Miller and Elizabeth left the family home leaving William George to live with his grandparents.
The story of what happened to Elizabeth became something of a family mystery. Did she get thrown out of the family home after William George’s birth? Did she go into service the “the Big House”? Why did she disappear after the 1851 census? No one seemed to know,
There was a family story that Elizabeth eventually married a man called James Booker. Very often there is more than a grain of truth in family stories and rumor so this was the starting point for the research into Elizabeth’s movements.
A record exists of a marriage of an Elizabeth Miller and one James Booker, a gardener, on the 6 February 1860 in Northfleet, Kent. On the marriage certificate Elizabeth’s father is named as George Miller a Labourer. This reflects what is known from the 1841 and 1851 census. Additionally, Elizabeth’s age on the marriage certificate also ties in with what was already known. Elizabeth’s place of residence is shown as Northfleet but quite what she was doing there will remain a mystery for some time to come.
Elizabeth and James also had a son "out of wedlock". Their youngest son, George, was 3 at the when the 1861 census was taken and he was born in Wilmington so Elizabeth must have returned to the area so how Northfleet fits into the picture is, as indicated earlier, a mystery.
From 1861 to 1901 Elizabeth and James appear on all the census returns. In each case Elizabeth’s place of birth is Wilmington.
From 1861 Elizabeth and James are living back in Wilmington. In fact they are living in Orange Tree Place. Elizabeth&srquo;s, father, George, died in 1865. According to the death certificate she was not only the informant but was also present at his death.
Sometime between 1881 and 1891 James and Elizabeth moved from Wilmington to the nearby hamlet of Hawley with four of their five sons. Both James and Elizabeth are shown to be still living there in 1901 with one son Alfred, 32 and one Samuel Saunders, a platelayer from Bury, Lancaster. James was still working a gardener in 1901.
Elizabeth died on 27 December 1901 at the family home, 2 Claremont Street, Hawley, Sutton and Hone from “Mitral Disease Dropsy”.