Isabel McFarland

Isabel McFarland

Female Abt 1792 - Aft 1850  (> 59 years)

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  • Name Isabel McFarland  [1, 2
    Alt. Birth 1784  [2
    Birth Abt 1792  Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Female 
    Immigration 1796 
    Death Aft 1850  [1
    Person ID I16255  MacFarlane
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

    Father John McFarland, BY7777 +2 JoM01,   b. Abt 1750, Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1797 and 1802, Eastern Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 47 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Margery Anderson,   b. Abt 1756, Ardstraw, Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 29 Apr 1835, Coitsville, Trumbull (later Mahoning), Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage Abt 1775  Co. Tyrone, Ulster, Northern Ireland Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F4272  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 James F McGill,   b. Abt 1790, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850 (Age > 61 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1818 
    Children 
    +1. James William McGill,   b. 2 Jan 1828, Poland, Mahoning co, Ohio Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 27 Nov 1908, Claridon, Geauga, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 80 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4533  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

    Family 2 James F. McGill [MacGill],   b. Abt 1790, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1850 (Age > 61 years) 
    Marriage Abt 1818  [1
    Children 
     1. James William McGill [MacGill],   b. 2 Jan 1828, Poland, Mahoning, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this locationbur. Center Cemetery, Claridon, Ohio, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F4534  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 May 2024 

  • Notes 
    • ISABEL (MCFARLAND) MCGILL (ca 1792 to after 1850)
      (Research by Peter Folsom McFarlin - May, 2012, reviewed June 2019)

      Isabel McFarland, like many other early Ohio women, is difficult to trace, since heads of families were either widows or men and the early US censuses were really only for those heads of households, with no other names or actual ages given.
      We start with the 1882 citation from Williams as he writes in his shor t biography of the widow Margery McFarland and children, in Coitsville , Ohio, that Margery "...came to this township from Ireland about the year 1804...Isabel, the oldest, mar ried James McGill... " (*1 p 168) . Perhaps she was the oldest daughter, but appears to not be the oldest sibling, since other census and death records place some of her McFarland brothers clearly as older.
      Isabel likely remained in her brother Alexander's household along wit h her mother Margery and the rest of the family until she married abou t 1818. Her husband, James F McGill was from Poland, Ohio, the next to wn to the south. He and his father' s family ran the early grist mill t here in the village of McGillsville on the Mahoning river. This may ha ve been where Isabel and James met in the early 1800's.
      Based on the surmise that she and James lived with his father John McG ill's family in Poland, and that they are enumerated there in the 182 0 census, then the one young girl shown there most likely is theirs. T his one child is "under ten", and p robably age one or two; hence thei r marraige date of about 1818. But there could be other circumstances , and more evidence is needed. Ohio county marraiges did not list a ma rraige for Isabel McFarland and James McGill.
      It's even less clear where they are later. They may still be with hi s father in Poland in 1830, or she and children may be the Isabella Mc Gill located to the southeast, over the line into North Beaver, Pennsy lvania, also on the Mahoning river . This (widow?) Isabella McGill no w has four children; three, ages 10-15, and one, age five to ten. Thi s Isabella is not a strong possibility because twenty years later, ano ther(?) Isabella McGill and a J F McGill were witnesses at the marrai g e of (their son) James W McGill to Emily Rumsey in Espyville, Pennsylv ania (*2).
      Isabel (McFarland) McGill needs to be further researched.

      PFM's SOURCES for Isabel (McFarland) McGill;
      1820 census; Poland, Ohio p 270; with father-in-law John McGill (Isabe l's age 26-45)
      1830 census; Poland, Ohio p 243; with father-in-law John Gill (Isabel' s age 30-40)
      1830 census; North Beaver, Pennsylvania p 189; (her age 40-50) ?
      1840 census; ?
      1850 marraige of her son, James W McGill to Emily Rumsey, Espyville, P ennsylvania
      1850 census; ?
      1860 census; ?

      Other REFERENCES;
      *1 History of Mahoning and Trumbull Counties, Williams, 1882 v 2
      *2 personal letter, Katrina (Thompson) McGill, 1973; to P F McFarlin
      FSID GCYW-4MG

  • Sources 
    1. [S57] Peter Folsom McFarlin, Descendants of John McFarland, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: John McFarland descendants (no notes).pdf rec: 6 Dec 2010;;;;;).

    2. [S58] The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950," database, FamilySearch, (Name: Name: Name: Name: Name: (http://www.familysearch.org);;;;;).