Surnames/tags: Gill Ghele Gell


How to Join
Please contact the project leader Sharon Gill or post a comment at the foot of the page. If you have any questions, just ask. Thanks!
Goals
This is a One Name Study to collect together in one place everything about the surname Gill and its variants. The hope is that other researchers like you will join our study to help make it a valuable reference point for people studying lines that cross or intersect.
Gill
English: Giles
Northern English, Middle English gil(l).
French: Guille
Old Norse gil.
Scottish and Irish: Gaelic Mac Gille, Mac Giolla, Ghoill (see Gall 1).
Name of a saint: McGill.
The Old Norse personal name: Gilli.
Norwegian: farmsteads in western Norway named Gil.
Dutch: cognate of Giles.
Jewish (Israeli): ornamental name from Hebrew gil ‘joy’.
German: from a vernacular short form of the medieval personal name Aegidius (see Gilger).
Indian (Panjab): Sikh name, probably from Panjabi gil ‘moisture’.
Ramgarhia Sikhs also have a clan called Gill.
Task List
- Make United States Categories
- Make US State Categories
- Make Wales category
- Make England category
- make other country category
- Find the oldest Gill surname in each state
Template
- [[Category:One Name Studies]]
- [[Category:Gill Name Study]]
- [[Category:United States, Gill Name Study]]
- [[Category:STATE, Gill Name Study]]
- [[Category:xxxCountyxxx, Gill Name Study]]
- This profile is part of the Gill Name Study.
Gill Immigrants to America
Some of the earliest Gill families in America were:
David Richard Gill Sr - Was born in 1838 in Penya, Abbw Vale, Monmouthshire, Wales. He joined the LDS church in Wales and immigrated to Utah with his wife and children in 1878.
Henry Savage Gill - Was born in Paulton, Somersetshire, England. He immigrated to Scranton, Pennsylvania
Gill surname in the Revolutionary War
Archibald D Gill - "Mad Archie" was born in Ireland and immigrated to South Carolina. He was a Colonel in the South Carolina Militia. Arch D is listed among those in Col. Henry Hampton's Regt. of Light Dragoons. Colonel Archibald Gill is listed in the Ancestral Roll, S.C., Daughters of the American Revolution.
Samuel Gill - Captain Gill, born in Virginia, served in the 4th Virginia (listed as Lt in the Valley Forge muster roll).
Gill surname in the War Between the States
Capt Thomas Maynard Gill - Joined the Thirty-first Mississippi regiment, with which he served throughout the war. At various times he was promoted rising from private to captain.
Gill surname in each state
Alabama: Capt Thomas Maynard Gill
Alaska:
Arizona:
Arkansas:
Colorado: George Oscar Gill
Georgia: Days Gill
Kentucky: :Francis Marion Gill - born 1844 in Pendleton County
New York: Irving J Gill
Virginia: Stephen Gill (born VA 1615)
Gill Cemeteries:
(Erasmus) Gill Family CemeterySamuel Gill Cemetery
Gill Notables
Irving John Gill - one of the founders of Modernism architecture, Maybeck Award honoree, founder of Irving J Gill Foundation.
Gill unusual/unique given names
AKA - Suggestion Trigger
Days Gill
Verlin Gill
Malla Gill
Vesta Gill
Soleta Josephine Gill
Jehew John Gill
Izetta May Gill
Vider Olive Gill
Linton Gill
Valmai Lillian
Tamsen Gill
Albin Gill
Levenia Gill
Bashforth Gill
Flournoy Jane Gill
Ure Bill
Nova Mae Gill
Wirt Alvin Gill
Horner Gill
Izetta Gill
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Gill biblical names
Resources
- Ancestry.com. Gill : abstracts from records in southern states and genealogical notes [database on-line]. Provo, UT: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
- Original data: Clark, Eva Turner Clark. Gill : abstracts from records in southern states and genealogical notes. New York: R.R. Smith, 1939. Gill Names. Published by Richard R Smith, New York, 1939.
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edited by Kristy (Williams) Daniels
If "Goldie" is really the poor boy's given name, then it might qualify for your list, too!
Year: 1900; Census Place: Eel River, Hendricks, Indiana; Roll: 376; Page: 8; Enumeration District: 0030 Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 7602 #15602110 (accessed 22 October 2023) household of Alfred Gill (40) in Eel River, Hendricks, Indiana. Born in Virginia, USA.
But love to be part of the group. I have a tree on Ancestry judesowden
Kind regards Judith
My father did his DNA through FTM-DNA before he passed his Hologroup is M-269 My Brother's also did his through FTM-DNA is M-269 but after doing some SNP's it change to a line of M-269 resulting in the Change to R-L21, Presently waiting on results of the Big Y to see where this leads. I have done the FTM-DNA and also 23 & Me and Ancestry, even though I am Female the Autosumal did infact prove my relationship with my brother, since my Dad died was unable to do the Family finder, but Brother and Dad do show up to 67 markers that there is a "0" Genetic distance to each other. Hoping to find others that are related through the Surname Gill