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McGill and Magill Family History Publications

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Background

Many North American Magill family trees claim a connection to the Magills of Tullycarn (also spelled Tullycairn), County Down, Ireland, near Dromore. There was an adjacent Magill Estate in County Down called "Gillhall Estate" [1] There have been several families that have migrated from Tullycairn to North America.

Several of members of this family served in the American Revolution, McGill in the American Revolution including:

Link to Tullycairn House Page.

Tullycairn associated McGill family history publications

Non-Tullycairn associated McGill family history publications

  • Augustus McGill,  The McGills, Celts, Scots, Ulsterman and American Pioneers: History, Heraldry and Tradition,  (United States: McGill-Warner Company, 1910).
    • Note: The author's ancestors were Roland McGill (abt.1720-) and Margaret (Dillon) McGill (abt.1720-). Their home was along Belfast Bay, between Belfast and Carrickfergus in County Antrim. They had 9 sons and 1 daughter. Arthur and Patrick came to Baltimore on their brother Henry's ship, "The Good Intent", around 1770. Governor Andrew Ryan McGill (1840-1905) 10th Governor of Minnesota descends from this family.
  • John McGill, The Macgill-McGill Family of Maryland; A Genealogical Record of over 400 years Beginning 1537, ending 1948, Reprinted by Higginson Book Company, LLC: Salem, Mass., 1948. Hathitrust Free Download.
  • Eunice Parr McGill, The Magill-McGill genealogy from the 1700's. (Sterling, Kan: Mrs. R.T.M. McGill, 1963). "Eunice"
  • Harold Lawrence, The Tucker Band: Tuckers and related families (Burtons and MaGills) (Boyd Publishing Company, 1992, pp 265-334).
  • Jack T. Ericson, Charles Magill the immigrant, (Westfield, NY 1995). Free download on familysearch.org
    • The story of Charles Magill and Jane Buchanan Magill of Warren County, Pennsylvania. (To do: create wikitree pages for them). Arthur Magill Sr (1764-1847) is their son.
  • Sarah Warren Faudskar, et al, The descendants of Zachariah McAlister and Mary Magill McAlister of Washington County, Indiana (Privately printed). Free download available on familysearch.org.
  • Myrtle Ethyl Packwood, Genealogy of the Magills, McAllisters, and the Rodmans (Salem, Indiana, 1966). This publication is indexed at familysearch, but not available online.
  • Sally Magill Stout, The Magill Family of Cross Creek, Pennsylvania (Los Altos Hills, California, 1985). Free download on familysearch.org
  • Virginia Carter Graham, The McGills of South Carolina and Mississippi (Self published, unknown date). Free Download at familysearch.org
  • Honor Victoria Meece Knowles, Family histories of Henry Crockett Meece, Sr. 1912-1983 (McGill and Meece) and Nona Belle O’Byrnes (1914-2010) (O’Byrnes and Hobson) (Self published, 2020). View at familysearch.org. Chapter 2, pages 42-51 covers this McGill family from Tennessee.
  • Samuel Davis McGill, Narrative of reminiscences in Williamsburg County (Kingstree, SC, Kingstree Lithographic Company, 1952). View on familysearch.org
  • Gerald McGuire, Sweet sixteen : the history, trials and joys of a Nebraska farm family as it comes through and beyond the Great Depression! (Self published, late 1990s or early 2000s).
  • Elizabeth Bly Fleming McGill, A Grandmother Looks Back (Self published, approximately 1982).
  • Paul Magill, The Magills of the Meetinghouse Cairncastle: Discovering the Story of an Irish Family. (Shanway Press, 2010).
  • Felix McKillop, Townlands, People and Traditions. (Ulster Tatler Publications, 2006).
    • The stories of many families from the southern Glens of Antrim, where the name Magill is very common.
  • Brian S. Turner, Family names in the Glens of Antrim, (Ulster Historical Foundation, 2021)
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