MARGARET M. MAC GILL GENEALOGY COLLECTION 6 Boxes, (# 254-254E) BIOGRAPHICAL/HISTORICAL NOTE: 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. SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE: 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 hisitory 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, Lightfott, 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. SOURCE/ DONOR AND DATE: Donated by Margaret M O Meara MacGill, April 26, 2005 Rita Holtz July 6, 2005 Updated - January 23, 2006
254 1 City Directories - District of Columbia, Fairfax County, Baltimore - 1895-1925 (Families - Beach, Baker, Farr, Franks, O Meara, Hilleary) 2 Beach family - Maps showing areas where family and collateral families lived 3 Beach family - Miscellaneous information 4 Beach family - Newspaper articles 5 Beach family - Wills 6 Beach family - Deeds/Land Records 7 Beach family - Deeds/Land Records 8 Buckley family - Marriages, indentures, Bible Records, miscellaneous information 9 Buckley family - Military records of William Buckley, War of 1812 10 Buckley family - Wills 11 Downs, Sloper, Hume families - Miscellaneous information 12 Gossom family - Deaths/burials 13 Gossom family - Deeds/Land records 14 Gossom family - Family group sheets, correspondence, miscellaneous information 15 Gossom family - Place name history 16 Gossom family - Wills, Administrations, Inventories
254A 1 Gossom family - Correspondence to Margaret MacGill from Virginia Zeboski (1982-1998) 2 Gossom family - Correspondence to Gossom cousins from Margaret MacGill (1984-1996) 3 Gossom family - Correspondence from Dick Collamer (1993-1999) 4 Gossom family - Correspondence from Edith Eaton (1987) 5 Gossom family - Correspondence from Dick Gossom (1991-1999) 6 Gossom family - Correspondence from Jim Gossom (1992-1996) 7 Gossom family - Correspondence from Steve Gossom, Mary Gossom, M. Bryant, Ralph Gossom 8 Gossom family - Correspondence from Pat Hasner (1984-1999) 9 Gossom family - Correspondence from and to Drucella Jones, Natalie N. Massengale, Ronald Simpson (1972-1996) 10 Lynch family - Family group sheets and genealogy Report 11 Lynch family - Miscellaneous information regarding the Allison, Lightfoot, Spate, Thompson, and Ball families 12 Lynch family - Information from various publications
254A 13 Lynch family - Revolutionary War records for Hugh Lynch 14 Lynch family - Spate family genealogy 15 Maddox family - Information from various source 16 Matthew family - Family Register for Matthew family. Information from various sources for the Peters and Walker families 254B* 1 O Meara family - Family research 1633-1810 2 O Meara family - Family research 1811-1820 3 O Meara family - Family research 1821-1900 4 O Meara family - Family research 1901-1979 5 O Meara family - John Thomas O Meara general information 6 O Meara family - Civil War information for family members who served the Confederacy 7 O Meara family - Francis O Meara Ship Captain (Includes history, manifests, ships records, court records) 8 O Meara family - Family research - General *NOTE: Information contained in these folders includes family trees, hand written notes, copies of deeds, wills, guardianships, and notes from various sources.
254C 1 Voorhees family - Information on Bradford and Smith families. 2 Voorhees family - Nelson Voorhees Union Civil War records 3 Voorhees family - Garnett Voorhees Revolutionary War records 4 Maddox family - Thomas Maddox Revolutionary War records. Civil War information on various family members. 5 Birth Certificates - Beach, Buckley, O Meara, Walker, Wilson families 6 Births - notes and miscellaneous information for Beach, Buckley, Downs, Gossom, Lynch, Maddox, O Meara, Voorhees, Walker and other related families 7 Marriage Certificates - Beach, Beaumont, Bickles, Bladen, Buckley, Downs, Farr, Gantt, Gossom, Kearns, Lightfoot, Lynch, MacGill, Matthews, O Meara, Sloper, Voorhees 8 Marriage Notes - A-B 9 Marriage Notes - C -L 10 Marriage Notes - M-Z 11 Marriage Notes - Miscellaneous 12 Correspondence of Mrs. Leon (Margaret M. O Meara) MacGill (1980-1997)
254D 1 Ancestor Charts - Lynch, O Meara, Voorhees families 2 Death Certificates - Beach, Bladen, Buckley, Cockmill, Downs, Fox, Lynch, Matthew, Mullic, O Meara, Shackelford, Smith, Straub, Wilson 3 Deaths - Cemetery Records 4 Deaths - Cemetery Records 5 Deaths - Miscellaneous information from various sources 6 Deaths - Requests for death certificates not found in collections 7 Obituaries - A-C 8 Obituaries - D-H 9 Obituaries - I-N 10 Obituaries - O 11 Obituaries - P-S 12 Obituaries - T-Z 13 Obituaries - Miscellaneous notes
254E 1 Census Records - A-D 2 Census Records - E-L 3 Census Records - M-O 4 Census Records - P-Z 5 Census Records - Miscellaneous handwritten notes 6 Deeds - O Meara family 7 Deeds - Voorhees family 8 Wills - A-D 9 Wills - E-N 10 Wills - O Meara 11 Wills - O-S 12 Wills - T-Z 13 Contacts of Mrs. Leon (Margaret M. O Meara) MacGill 14 Miscellaneous Notes