Looking for Relations to John McGill and Mary Glass

Richard,

I have had a look for this family but can’t find any trace of them. Can you give us a bit more information? Do you know which townland they lived in? When exactly did John & Mary marry? (I can’t find their marriage on the RC parish records on Ancestry).

I can’t find John or Mary McGill/Magill’s deaths in 1882 in the Tickmacrevan/Glenarm area (ie Larne civil Registration District). Is that where they died? (There was 1 John Magill death in 1882 but he was a bachelor. No Mary McGill).

You say Francis McGill married Sarah Ann McDonnell and list 8 children. I can’t find any of the children in the statutory records. Were the children born in Ireland? I also looked for Francis & Sarah’s deaths in 1897 and 1900 in Ireland but without success.

You list John & Sarah’s siblings. They weren’t brother & sister, so that’s a bit confusing.  Is it just John McGill’s siblings you mean? You might want to change your original post. You can do that by going into edit my posts.

Sorry but I am bit baffled by all this. 

Richard,

McGill/Magill would be interchangeable in Ireland. Both were is common use. Often the spelling was simply the whim of the priest or other official recording the information.

I had a look at the Glenarm baptism records. I found a Francis Magill bapt 13.4.1836 to Mich & Catherine Magill. Couldn’t see one to John & Mary:

https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000633178#page/50/mode/1up

However I did find the baptism of Mary Magill on 21.12.1837 to John & Mary with sponsors John McIlvenna and Jane Glass. (Same document as above). You might want to search through the records and see if you can spot any others.

Finding John & Mary’s parents will probably be quite hard as the church records don’t go back far enough. Many of those families in the Glens of Antrim originated in Scotland. Many were encouraged to move across from MacDonald/McDonnell lands on Islay, Jura, Kintyre etc in the 1500s when the McDonnells acquired that part of Antrim. (The Irish/Gaelic spoken in the Glens was always noted for being identical to that spoken in those parts of Scotland, and somewhat different to that in other parts of Ireland. That was the reason).