Margaret M. MacGill Genealogy Collection Finding Aid , MS254

Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
lhsc@alexlibraryva.org
URL: http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc

Rita Holtz

Repository

Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library

Identification

MS254

Title

Margaret M. MacGill Genealogy Collection (MS254) 2018-01-01-2018-04-01

Quantity

2 Linear Feet, 6 boxes

Creator

MacGill, Margaert M. O'Meara, 1919-2008

Language

English .

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.

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.

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.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Virginia -- Genealogy.

Series I: City Directories

Text box: 1 folder: 1
City Directories - District of Columbia, Fairfax County, Baltimore - 1895-1925 (Families - Beach, Baker, Farr, Franks, O'Meara, Hilleary)

Series II: Beach Family

Text box: 1 folder: 2
Beach family - Maps showing areas where family and collateral families lived
Text box: 1 folder: 3
Beach family - Miscellaneous information
Text box: 1 folder: 4
Beach family - Newspaper articles
Text box: 1 folder: 5
Beach family - Wills
Text box: 1 folder: 6
Beach family - Deeds/Land Records
Text box: 1 folder: 7
Beach family - Deeds/Land Records

Series IV: Downs, Sloper, Hume Families

Text box: 1 folder: 11
Downs, Sloper, Hume families - Miscellaneous information

Series V: Gossom Family

Text box: 1 folder: 12
Gossom family - Deaths/burials
Text box: 1 folder: 13
Gossom family - Deeds/Land records
Text box: 1 folder: 14
Gossom family - Family group sheets, correspondence, miscellaneous information
Text box: 1 folder: 15
Gossom family - Place name history
Text box: 1 folder: 16
Gossom family - Wills, Administrations, Inventories
Text box: 2 folder: 1
Gossom family - Correspondence to Margaret MacGill from Virginia Zeboski, 1982-1998
Text box: 2 folder: 2
Gossom family - Correspondence to Gossom cousins from Margaret MacGill
1984-1996
Text box: 2 folder: 3
Gossom family - Correspondence from Dick Collamer
1993-1999
Text box: 2 folder: 4
Gossom family - Correspondence from Edith Eaton
1987
Text box: 2 folder: 5
Gossom family - Correspondence from Dick Gossom
1991-1999
Text box: 2 folder: 6
Gossom family - Correspondence from Jim Gossom
1992-1996
Text box: 2 folder: 7
Gossom family - Correspondence from Steve Gossom, Mary Gossom, M. Bryant, Ralph Gossom
Text box: 2 folder: 8
Gossom family - Correspondence from Pat Hasner
Hasner, Pat1984-1999
Text box: 2 folder: 9
Gossom family - Correspondence from and to Drucella Jones, Natalie N. Massengale, Ronald Simpson
1972-1996

Series VI: Lynch Family

Text box: 2 folder: 10
Lynch family - Family group sheets and Genealogy Report
Text box: 2 folder: 11
Lynch family - Miscellaneous information regarding the Allison, Lightfoot, Spate, Thompson, and Ball families
Text box: 2 folder: 12
Lynch family - Information from various publications
Text box: 2 folder: 13
Lynch family - Revolutionary War records for Hugh Lynch
Text box: 2 folder: 14
Lynch family - Spate family genealogy

Series VII: Maddox Family

Text box: 2 folder: 15
Maddox family - Information from various sources
Text box: 4 folder: 4
Maddox family - Thomas Maddox Revolutionary War records. Civil War information on various family members

Series VIII: Matthew Family

Text box: 2 folder: 16
Matthew family - Family Register for Matthew family. Information from various sources for the Peters and Walker families

Series IX: O'Meara Family

Text box: 3 folder: 1
O'Meara family - Family research 1633-1810
Text box: 3 folder: 2
O'Meara family - Family research 1811-1820
Text box: 3 folder: 3
O'Meara family - Family research 1821-1900
Text box: 3 folder: 4
O'Meara family - Family research 1901-1979
Text box: 3 folder: 5
O'Meara family - John Thomas O'Meara general information
Text box: 3 folder: 6
O'Meara family - Civil War information for family members who served the Confederacy
Text box: 3 folder: 7
O'Meara family - Francis O'Meara, Ship Captain (Includes history, manifests, ships records, court records)
Text box: 3 folder: 8
O'Meara family - Family research - General

Series XI: Voorhees Family

Text box: 4 folder: 1
Voorhees family - Information on Bradford and Smith families
Text box: 4 folder: 2
Voorhees family - Nelson Voorhees Union CivilWar records
Text box: 4 folder: 3
Voorhees family - Garnett Voorhees Revolutionary War records

Series XII: Birth, Marriage, Death, Miscellaneous

Text box: 4 folder: 5
Birth Certificates - Beach, Buckley, O'Meara, Walker, Wilson families
Text box: 4 folder: 6
Births - notes and miscellaneous information for Beach, Buckley, Downs, Gossom, Lynch, Maddox, O'Meara, Voorhees, Walker and other related families
Text box: 4 folder: 7
Marriage Certificates - Beach, Beaumont, Bickles, Bladen, Buckley, Downs, Farr, Gantt, Gossom, Kearns, Lightfoot, Lynch, MacGill, Matthews, O'Meara, Sloper, Voorhees
Text box: 4 folder: 8
Marriage Notes - A-B
Text box: 4 folder: 9
Marriage Notes - C -L
Text box: 4 folder: 10
Marriage Notes - M-Z
Text box: 4 folder: 11
Marriage Notes - Miscellaneous
Text box: 4 folder: 12
Correspondence of Mrs. Leon (Margaret M. O'Meara) MacGill
1980-1997
- Text box: 5 folder: 1
  Ancestor Charts - Lynch, O'Meara, Voorhees families
- Text box: 5 folder: 2
  Death Certificates - Beach, Bladen, Buckley, Cockmill, Downs, Fox, Lynch, Matthew, Mullic, O'Meara, Shackelford, Smith, Straub, Wilson
- Text box: 5 folder: 3
  Deaths - Cemetery Records
- Text box: 5 folder: 4
  Deaths - Cemetery Records
- Text box: 5 folder: 5
  Deaths - Miscellaneous information from various sources
- Text box: 5 folder: 6
  Deaths - Requests for death certificates not found in collections
- Text box: 5 folder: 7
  Obituaries - A-C
- Text box: 5 folder: 8
  Obituaries - D-H
- Text box: 5 folder: 9
  Obituaries - I-N
- Text box: 5 folder: 10
  Obituaries - O
- Text box: 5 folder: 11
  Obituaries - P-S
- Text box: 5 folder: 12
  Obituaries - T-Z
- Text box: 5 folder: 13
  Obituaries - Miscellaneous notes
- Text box: 6 folder: 1
  Census Records - A-D
- Text box: 6 folder: 2
  Census Records - E-L
- Text box: 6 folder: 3
  Census Records - M-O
- Text box: 6 folder: 4
  Census Records - P-Z
- Text box: 6 folder: 5
  Census Records - Miscellaneous handwritten notes
- Text box: 6 folder: 6
  Deeds - O'Meara family
- Text box: 6 folder: 7
  Deeds - Voorhees family
- Text box: 6 folder: 8
  Wills - A-D
- Text box: 6 folder: 9
  Wills - E-N
- Text box: 6 folder: 10
  Wills - O'Meara
- Text box: 6 folder: 11
  Wills - O-S
- Text box: 6 folder: 12
  Wills - T-Z
- Text box: 6 folder: 13
  Contacts of Mrs. Leon (Margaret M. O'Meara) MacGill
- Text box: 6 folder: 14
  Miscellaneous Notes