Isabella McGill

Brief Life History of Isabella

When Isabella McGill was born on 23 November 1853, in Bathgate, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom, her father, Adam McGill, was 35 and her mother, Isabella Shaw, was 35. She married Isaac James Langley in 1873, in Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She lived in Butte, Silver Bow, Montana, United States in 1900 and Miami, Gila, Arizona, United States in 1920. She died on 7 December 1937, in San Diego, San Diego, California, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Salt Lake City Cemetery, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States.

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Family Time Line

Jacob B. Langstroff
1836–1916
Isabella McGill
1853–1937
Marriage: 16 November 1879
Elizabeth Langstroff
1880–1968
May Belle Langstroff
1885–1974

Sources (23)

  • Isabella Mcgill in household of Adam Mcgill, "Scotland Census, 1861"
  • Isabella Mcgill, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"
  • Isabel Mcgill, "Utah, County Marriages, 1887-1937"

World Events (8)

1863

Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.

1864

Historical Boundaries 1864: Missoula, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Deer Lodge, Idaho Territory, United States 1864: Deer Lodge, Montana Territory, United States 1881: Silver Bow, Montana Territory, United States 1889: Silver Bow, Montana, United States

1875 · A Treaty with Hawaii

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.

Name Meaning

Scottish and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Ghoill ‘son of the stranger (or lowlander)’ (see Gall 1).

Irish and Scottish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac (an) G(h)iolla (Irish) or Mac (an) G(h)ille (Scottish) ‘son of the lad’ (i.e. ‘servant’), or a short form of a personal name formed by attaching this element to the name of a saint, in the sense ‘devotee’.

Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.

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