Volume 16 , Issue 37

McGill Family History

This interesting find for part of the McGill clan American history was sent to me by Bob McGill concerning a William Lusk McGill. Bob McGill says, "My grandfather Charles Frank McGill was born in Orange County, New York. His folks moved to Edwards County, Kansas to homestead. I think they were one of the few of my clan to leave the Cromwell by the Hudson, New York area."

William Lusk McGill (1813-1852)

William Lusk McGill's grandfather was Hugh McGill, Sr. (1749-1834), who was born in the north of Ireland, where the family was in good circumstances. At the breaking out of the Irish rebellion, Hugh McGill Sr., then a lad of seventeen years of age, participated in the revolutionary movements of the neighborhood, and narrowly escaped arrest by the English authorities. Getting on board of a vessel he came to New York, and subsequently engaged in farming at Little Britain, Orange County. After a time he purchased a farm in Cornwall, where he passed the remainder of his days, dying about 1834. He married a Miss Hallock, and had three sons and a daughter. John and Samuel lived and died in Cornwall. Margaret, the daughter, married George Vanderheiden, of Troy, New York.

For more information about this McGill family lineage, checkout The McGills Celts, Scots, Ulstermen and American Pioneers, History, Heraldry and Tradition by Capt. Augustus McGill.
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