When Robert Lee McNeil was born on 30 October 1874, in Rocky Mount, Franklin, Virginia, United States, his father, Jonathan Patterson McNeil, was 27 and his mother, Sallie Jane Hudson, was 18. He married Mary Frances Divers on 28 October 1912, in Richmond, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1874 and Richmond, Virginia, United States in 1930. He registered for military service in 1899. He died on 19 November 1936, in Richmond, Henrico, Virginia, United States, at the age of 62, and was buried in Rocky Mount, Franklin, Virginia, United States.
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In the Mid 1870s, The United States sought out the Kingdom of Hawaii to make a free trade agreement. The Treaty gave the Hawaiians access to the United States agricultural markets and it gave the United States a part of land which later became Pearl Harbor.
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Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Néill, a patronymic from the personal name Niall (genitive Néill), see Neil and also Neilson, which was sometimes substituted for McNeil in Lowland Scotland.
History: The Scottish Clan McNeil claims descent from the early Irish king Niall of the Nine Hostages (see O'Neill ), and the name is associated in particular with the island of Barra in the Hebrides, having been brought there from Ireland in 1049. Some members of this clan later migrated to Antrim and Derry in Ireland. A different Scottish Clan MacNeill (spelled with two l's) has a traditional ancestral home on the island of Gigha.
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