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mcgill Name Meaning and History

  1. Scottish (Galloway) and Irish: Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac an Ghoill ‘son of the stranger’ (see Gall 1).
  2. Irish: short form of Gaelic names beginning with Mac Giolla ‘son of the servant (or devotee) of’ (see for example McElroy).
  3. Scottish: Anglicized form of Mac Ghille Mhaoil, otherwise Anglicized as McMillan.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the mcgill family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of mcgill Families in the US in 1920
Number of mcgill families
 109-215
 37-108		 1-36
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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