A Guide to the Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, 1915-1983 Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family MSS 07-24

A Guide to the Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, 1915-1983

A Collection in The Fairfax County Public Library

Record Group Number MSS 07-24

Fairfax County Public Library
City of Fairfax Regional Library
Virginia Room
10360 North Street
Fairfax, VA 22030-2514 USA
Virginia Room: 703-293-6227 x6
Fax: 703-293-2155
Email: va_room@fairfaxcounty.gov
URL: https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library/branches/virginia-room

Repository

Fairfax County Public Library

Record Group Number

MSS 07-24

Title

The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, 1915-1983

Extent

.25 linear feet

Creator

MacGill, Margaret M. (1919-2008)

Language

English

Abstract

The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family consists of .25 linear feet and spans the years 1915-1983 and contains photographs and a negative.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None

Use Restrictions

Consult repository for information

Preferred Citation

Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family, MSS 07-24, Virginia Room, Fairfax County Public Library

Acquisition Information

Gift of Mrs. Margaret MacGill on October 16, 2000
Additional photographs donated by her on December 15, 2004

Processing Information

Chris Barbuschak, February 2017
EAD generated by Ross Landis, 2024

Historical and Biographical Information

Margaret M. O’Meara was born on March 5, 1919 in Washington D.C. to Ernest C. and Bertha M. Beach O’Meara. She grew up at 528 Taylor Street, NW, however the O’Meara and Beach families had previously lived in Fairfax County, Virginia for three generations. She graduated from Roosevelt High School and the Washington School for Secretaries and began a life-long career as a military secretary. Margaret married Leon H. “Mac” MacGill on March 4, 1950 in Washington D.C. and the couple resided in Arlington, Virginia. An avid genealogist, Margaret published two books on her family’s history, “The Beach family of Virginia and the Voorhees family of New York and Virginia” in 1996 and “The O'Meara family of Virginia and the Lynch family of Maryland and Virginia: including collateral lines of Gossom and Maddox” in 1997. She died in Arlington on February 8, 2008.

Scope and Content

The Margaret M. MacGill Photograph Collection on the O’Meara Family consists of .25 linear feet and spans the years 1915-1983 and contains photographs and a negative. Subjects include the O’Meara family, the O’Meara family household in Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va., and scenes from Herndon, Va. and Washington D.C.

Related Material

Margaret M. MacGill Genealogy Collection, Alexandria Public Library Special Collections, Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library

Margaret M. MacGill diaries and scrapbook, 1944-1949, Historical Society of Washington D.C.

Separated Material

None

Index Terms

Herndon (Va.)
MacGill, Margaret M. (1919-2008)
Merrifield (Va.)
O’Meara family
Washington (D.C.)

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Significant Places Associated With the Collection

Herndon (Va.)
Merrifield (Va.)
Washington (D.C.)

Container List

Box 1 Folder 1: Katie O'Meara and Millie O'Meara (taken at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C.), Undated

Box 1 Folder 2: Bessie O'Meara (taken at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C.), Undated

Box 1 Folder 3: Valenchia Costello O'Meara , Undated

Box 1 Folder 4: Albert Buckley O'Meara Home, Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va., Undated

Box 1 Folder 5: Albert Buckley O'Meara, Catharine Amanda (Kerns) O'Meara, Bessie Augusta O'Meara, William Alfonso O'Meara, Matrona Columbia O'Meara, Annie Elizabeth O'Meara, and Mildred Virginia O'Meara, Undated

Box 1 Folder 6: Bessie Augusta O'Meara, Mildred Virginia O'Meara, Katie Eloda May O'Meara at family home in Merrifield, Fairfax County, Va., Undated

Box 1 Folder 7: Mildred Virginia O'Meara and Katie Eloda May O'Meara, Undated

Box 1 Folder 8: Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C., c. 1959

Box 1 Folder 9: Mildred Virginia O'Meara and Katie Eloda May O'Meara, Undated

Box 1 Folder 10: Katie Eloda May O'Meara, Undated

Box 1 Folder 11: Ernest Costello O'Meara and Bertha Mae Beach (wedding photo), 1915 June 30

Box 1 Folder 12: Bertha Mae Beach, Undated

Box 1 Folder 13: Albert Buckley O'Meara family and Kearns family, Undated

Box 1 Folder 14: Town of Herndon before the fire [photo and negative], Undated

Box 1 Folder 15: Margaret Marie O'Meara, c. 1923

Box 1 Folder 16: Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara, Leola Turner, Ernest Costello O'Meara (taken in backyard at 528 Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C.), c. 1933

Box 1 Folder 17: Margaret O'Meara and Bertha Mae (Beach) O'Meara marching in Fourth of July parade, corner of New Hampshire Avenue and Taylor Street, N.W. Washington D.C., c. 1923

Box 1 Folder 18: House at 126 F Street, N.W. Washington D.C., Undated

Box 1 Folder 19: Bertha Mae O'Meara and nurses of Margaret O'Meara, 1919 May

Box 1 Folder 20: Margaret O'Meara and nurse, 1919

Box 1 Folder 21: Ernest Costello O'Meara, Bertha Mae O'Meara, and Margaret O'Meara in baby carriage at Court House in Washington D.C., 1919 May

Box 1 Folder 22: Miss Emma Ellmore, Mrs. Virginia (McFarland) Greear and Miss Elizabeth Ellmore (taken at the Ellmore's home at Herndon, Va.), 1983 July 26

A Collection in The Fairfax County Public Library Record Group Number MSS 07-24