Margaret M. MacGill Genealogy Collection (MS254)

Collection

Identifier: MS254

Staff Only

Content Description

The collection consists of information on the O’Meara, Lynch, Beach, Gossom, and Voorhees families including many collateral lines. Included is correspondence, notes, copies of documents (birth, death, marriage, deeds, wills, military, etc), articles, obituaries, and other miscellaneous items. All pertaining to the history and genealogy of the aforementioned names.

Dates

2018-01-01 - 2018-04-01

Creator

MacGill, Margaert M. O'Meara, 1919-2008 (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Margaret M. O’Meara was born March 5, 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia. She was the daughter of Ernest C. And Bertha M. Beach O’Meara. She married Leon Herbert MacGill of Arlington, Virginia on March 4, 1950. Mrs. MacGill resides in the Arlington/Alexandria area and has researched and compiled information for her family genealogy for many years.

Extent

2 Linear Feet (6 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Arrangement

Information is by family surname: Beach, Buckley (Shackelford),Downs (Sloper, Wilson), Hume, Gossom (Hampton, Jenkins, Lomax, E. Thomas, Tuttle), Lynch (Allison, Lightfoot, Spates, Thompson, Ball), Maddox, Matthew (Peters, Walker), O’Meara, Voorhees (Bradford, Smith). Military information is that of Revolutionary War and Civil War ancestors. Births, Marriages, Deaths, Obituaries are arranged by surname. Census records, deeds, wills, and other information is arranged by chronological and alphabetical order in place where applicable.