Ralph Milbury MacNeill (1881 - 1967)

Born 28 Jul 1881 in Barton, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada

Husband of Grace Flora (Coombs) Howes — married 10 Jul 1909 in Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Died 13 Mar 1967 at age 85 in Roxbury, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States

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Biography

Ralph Milbury McNeill was born 28 July 1881 to his father, Albert Clement MacNeill, and mother Cecelia Sophia Milbury, in Barton, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada. His father was 36 at the time, his mother 31. Ralph was their second child, they having had a son, Albert Fletcher MacNeill, who was born 30 November 1876.

Ralph married Grace Coombs, daughter of Eseck and Jennie, in 1909. ^[1]

At the time of his World War I draft registration in 1918, he was living in Newton Centre and as working as a chauffeur for a private family.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts Marriages, 1841-1915," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:N48V-GF1 : 25 May 2018), Ralph Milbury Macneill and Grace Florence Coombs, 10 Jul 1909; citing Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,315,510.
2. ↑ "United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KZNH-4Q9 : 24 August 2019), Ralph Milbury MacNeill, 1917-1918.

• "Canada Census, 1881," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MV6T-YC1 : accessed 25 February 2016), Ralph McNeill in household of Albert McNeill, Plympton, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 57; Library and Archives Canada film number C-13172, Library and Archives Canada, Ottawa, Ontario; FHL microfilm 1,375,808.

• Canada Census, 1891; Year: 1891; Census Place: Plympton, Digby, Nova Scotia; Roll: T-6312; Family No: 214 (Ancestry.com link)

• "Canada Census, 1901," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHKG-MWQ : accessed 25 February 2016), Ralph Mcneill in household of Maria Mcneill, A, Digby, Nova Scotia, Canada; citing p. 2, Library and Archives of Canada, Ottawa.

• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K4JY-7G1 : accessed 25 February 2016), Ralph M Mcneill, Ward 11, Boston, Boston City, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 15-393, sheet 1B, family 23, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 1669.

• Archive Name: National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Archive Location: Washington D.C.; Archive Title: Petitions and Records of Naturalizations of the U.S. District and Circuit Courts of the District of Massachusetts, 1906-1929; Series: M1368 (Ancestry.com link)

• National Archives and Records Administration (NARA); Washington, D.C.; Index to Naturalization Petitions and Records of the U.S. District Court, 1906-1966, and the U.S. Circuit Court, 1906-1911, for the District of Massachusetts; Microfilm Serial: M1545; M (Ancestry.com link)

• WWI Draft Registration Cards; Registration State: Massachusetts; Registration County: Middlesex; Roll: 1674462 (Ancestry.com link)

• The National Archives at St. Louis; St. Louis, Missouri; World War II Draft Cards (Fourth Registration) for the State of Massachusetts; State Headquarters: Massachusetts; Microfilm Series: M2090; Microfilm Roll: 94 (Ancestry.com link)

• Social Security Death Index; Number: 031-05-3185; Issue State: Massachusetts; Issue Date: Before 1951 (Ancestry.com link)

• http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=2361&h=19227&ssrc=pt&tid=25969461&pid=13941343682&usePUB=true (Ancestry.com link)