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Fonda Doris (Magill) Beucus & Barbara "Bobbie" Joyce Beucus

The Recent Magills 

    Raymond John Magill and Fonda Drusilla McCorkle had three children including my great grandmother Fonda Doris Magill, Russell John Magill, and Norma Carolyn Magill. Russell John "Jack" Magill was born 22 August 1923 in Falls City, Richardson, Nebraska. In 1930, Russell age 6 lived with his parents Raymond age 34 and Fonda age 30 as well as his sisters Fonda age 11 and Norma age 2 in Chadron, Dawes County, Nebraska. In 1940, Russell John "Jack" Magill age 16 lived in Lynndyl, Millard County, Utah with his parents Raymond John Magill age 44 and Fonda Drusilla (McCorkle) Magill age 40 as well as his sisters Fond Doris Magill age 21 and Norma Carolyn Magill age 12. Russell married Evelyn May Clark on 13 July 1970 in Fallon, Churchill County, Nevada. Russell did have children to pass on the Magill family name. He died on 4 June 1996 in Cedarville, Modoc County, California. He is buried in Cedarville Cemetery in Modoc County, California. 


 
photo of Russell John "Jack" Magill from Olena Taylor on FamilySearch


The Magill Surname 

Magill is an Irish variant of McGill, which has a couple possible origins: 

  1. an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Mac an Ghoill which means 'son of the stranger or lowlander' 
  2. an Anglicized form of the Scottish Gaelic Mac (an) G(h)ille or the Irish Gaelic Mac (an) G(h)iolla meaning 'son of the lad' 
  3. short form of a personal name from a saint in the sense of a 'devotee' 
In my genealogy research, I have traced the Magill family back to Nebraska, Utah, Kansas, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma. The Magills go back to Scotland and Northern Ireland in the 1870s and 1860s. 


With love, 

Autumn Rose Surratt 

The Ancestor Witch 


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