Maude Miller Bentall

Maude Alice Miller, 1861-1958, was born in Liverpool, England, 10 May 1861, to William Charles Miller, a shipbroker, and Lucy Swainson, the fifth of their nine children. When she was twenty-three, she married Edmund Ernest Bentall, the son of Edward Hammond Bentall whose father started and agricultural machinery company that later became the E.H. Bentall Company. The Bentalls sold agricultural and other machinery and their products were known world-wide. Edmund took over the company in 1889.

The Bentalls had six children. The family lived in Heybridge where the Bentall Company was located. The family lived in a large mansion called "The Towers," also in Heybridge. Edmund died in 1945 and Maude died 29 May 1958.


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Photos of Maude Alice Miller, age four and age ten
Maude and Edmund Bentall in their carriage
William Charles Miller and Lucy Swainson, Maude's parents
Children of William Charles Miller and Lucy Swainson
Miller family

Photograph from the collection of Hope Healy Koontz.