Clara Miller

Clarissa “Clara” Miller (neé Boehmer) (1854 - 1926) was the mother of author Agatha Christie. She was born in Belfast in 1854 to Captain Frederick Boehmer and Mary Ann West.

After the death of her father (in 1863) Clara was brought up by her aunt Margaret and her husband Nathaniel. It was while living with her aunt and uncle she got to know Frederick Miller, who was her cousin by marriage. They married in 1878.