• Born: Abt 1830, Monaghan, County Antrim, Ireland
• Marriage (1): Margaret McFALL on 15 February 1848 in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland
• Died: 22 January 1891, Dalziel, Lanarkshire, Scotland about age 61 ²

   Cause of his death was Epithelioma of Neck, 4 Months; As Cert by P Caldwell Smith, MD.²

  General Notes

I thought at first that John McGill was the son of Charles McGill and Jane Cunningham. Charles and Jane had a child named John who was baptised in Carrickfergus parish, County Antrim, in 1829.  Both John McGill and his wife Margaret McFall are from County Antrim, they married in the same district where several of Charles and Jane's children were baptized (Larne), and they lived as adults in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, Scotland — where Charles McGill and others of his family ended up.  It seemed like a match.

Unfortunately, the church marriage record between John McGill and Margaret McFall does not specify the names of the parents. On FamilySearch, there is a listing of their marriage cited to "civil records" — so if there is a government marriage record, it is possible that it MIGHT mention who the parents are (although if so, the information in not included in the FamilySearch transcription).  I have now checked with GRONI and seen the marriage image; they married in a Church of Ireland parish (not a Roman Catholic parish, as with MY McGill family), and the father's names are not listed.

Another source of proof is the death certificate.   Unfortunately, the informant on John's death certificate was his son-in-law, Thomas Flynn, and the parent fields were left completely blank.

Even though they weren't married in the Roman Catholic Church, it still seemed like this might be the John McGill from MY McGill family.  However, the sticking point was the 1851 census.  John and Margaret are in Kilmarnock in the 1851 census; however, I previously had found John in the 1851 census — as a single man — in the household of his father in Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire, Scotland.  While I'm not 100% positive that I've found the right McGill family in Lochwinnoch in 1851, it seems likely because of a match between several known family members.  Also, son Charles married his wife in Lochwinnoch in 1857 (before ending up in Kilmarnock like the rest of his extended family).  So John McGill the labourer in 1851 Lochwinnoch (presumably the son of Charles McGill and Jane Cunningham) is NOT the same person as the John McGill shoemaker who is in the 1851 census in Kilmarnock with his wife, Margaret McFall.

When you check church baptims for John McGill in County Antrim in the right time period (ca. 1830), there aren't very many at all.  (Although, as we all know, before state registration began, not all births were recorded through church registers.)  In the same Roman Catholic parish as MY McGill family, there is another John McGill birth baptized the same year, but this one is the child of John and Ann.  So the John McGill who married Margaret McFall might be a relative of the John in MY McGill family; or, he might be completely unrelated.  Unless a long-lost family bible or other family records turn up, we may never know.

— 5 Aug 2015, kmh.

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  Death Notes

5h. 0m. PM, 50 Williams Row, Glenhead, Parish of Dalziel; Age at death 62 years.

John married Margaret McFALL on 15 February 1848 in Larne, County Antrim, Ireland. (Margaret McFALL was born about 1830 in Monaghan, County Antrim, Ireland.)