Brief Life History of John
When John Neill was born on 17 June 1701, in Clare, Tullylish, County Down, Ireland, his father, John Neill, was 30 and his mother, Esther Raford, was 30. He married Anne Cox in 1730, in Frederick, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 daughters. He died on 2 October 1755, in Frederick, Virginia, British Colonial America, at the age of 54.
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- U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 about John Neill
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- RootsIreland
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Name Meaning
Irish and Scottish: variant of Neil , also probably representing shortened forms of the derived patronymics McNeill or the comparable Irish O'Neill .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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