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Local History and Special Collections Branch, Alexandria Library
717 Queen StreetAlexandria, VA 22314
Business Number: 703-746-1791
lhsc@alexlibraryva.org
URL: http://alexlibraryva.org/lhsc
Rita Holtz
Biographical / Historical
Margaret M. O'Meara was born March 5, 1919 in Washington, District of Columbia. She was the daughter of Ernest C. And Bertha M. Beach O'Meara. She married Leon Herbert MacGill of Arlington, Virginia on March 4, 1950. Mrs. MacGill resides in the Arlington/Alexandria area and has researched and compiled information for her family genealogy for many years.
Content Description
The collection consists of information on the O'Meara, Lynch, Beach, Gossom, and Voorhees families including many collateral lines. Included is correspondence, notes, copies of documents (birth, death, marriage, deeds, wills, military, etc), articles, obituaries, and other miscellaneous items. All pertaining to the history and genealogy of the aforementioned names.
Arrangement
Information is by family surname: Beach, Buckley (Shackelford),Downs (Sloper, Wilson), Hume, Gossom (Hampton, Jenkins, Lomax, E. Thomas, Tuttle), Lynch (Allison, Lightfoot, Spates, Thompson, Ball), Maddox, Matthew (Peters, Walker), O'Meara, Voorhees (Bradford, Smith). Military information is that of Revolutionary War and Civil War ancestors. Births, Marriages, Deaths, Obituaries are arranged by surname. Census records, deeds, wills, and other information is arranged by chronological and alphabetical order in place where applicable.
Significant Persons Associated With the Collection
- Hasner, Pat
- MacGill, Margaert M. O'Meara, 1919-2008
Container List
- Text box: 1 folder: 1
City Directories - District of Columbia, Fairfax County, Baltimore - 1895-1925 (Families - Beach, Baker, Farr, Franks, O'Meara, Hilleary)
- Text box: 1 folder: 2
Beach family - Maps showing areas where family and collateral families lived
- Text box: 1 folder: 3
Beach family - Miscellaneous information
- Text box: 1 folder: 4
Beach family - Newspaper articles
- Text box: 1 folder: 5
Beach family - Wills
- Text box: 1 folder: 6
Beach family - Deeds/Land Records
- Text box: 1 folder: 7
Beach family - Deeds/Land Records
- Text box: 1 folder: 11
Downs, Sloper, Hume families - Miscellaneous information
- Text box: 1 folder: 12
Gossom family - Deaths/burials
- Text box: 1 folder: 13
Gossom family - Deeds/Land records
- Text box: 1 folder: 14
Gossom family - Family group sheets, correspondence, miscellaneous information
- Text box: 1 folder: 15
Gossom family - Place name history
- Text box: 1 folder: 16
Gossom family - Wills, Administrations, Inventories
- Text box: 2 folder: 1
Gossom family - Correspondence to Margaret MacGill from Virginia Zeboski, 1982-1998
- Text box: 2 folder: 2
Gossom family - Correspondence to Gossom cousins from Margaret MacGill1984-1996
- Text box: 2 folder: 3
Gossom family - Correspondence from Dick Collamer1993-1999
- Text box: 2 folder: 4
Gossom family - Correspondence from Edith Eaton1987
- Text box: 2 folder: 5
Gossom family - Correspondence from Dick Gossom1991-1999
- Text box: 2 folder: 6
Gossom family - Correspondence from Jim Gossom1992-1996
- Text box: 2 folder: 7
Gossom family - Correspondence from Steve Gossom, Mary Gossom, M. Bryant, Ralph Gossom
- Text box: 2 folder: 8
Gossom family - Correspondence from Pat HasnerHasner, Pat1984-1999
- Text box: 2 folder: 9
Gossom family - Correspondence from and to Drucella Jones, Natalie N. Massengale, Ronald Simpson1972-1996
- Text box: 2 folder: 10
Lynch family - Family group sheets and Genealogy Report
- Text box: 2 folder: 11
Lynch family - Miscellaneous information regarding the Allison, Lightfoot, Spate, Thompson, and Ball families
- Text box: 2 folder: 12
Lynch family - Information from various publications
- Text box: 2 folder: 13
Lynch family - Revolutionary War records for Hugh Lynch
- Text box: 2 folder: 14
Lynch family - Spate family genealogy
- Text box: 2 folder: 15
Maddox family - Information from various sources
- Text box: 4 folder: 4
Maddox family - Thomas Maddox Revolutionary War records. Civil War information on various family members
- Text box: 2 folder: 16
Matthew family - Family Register for Matthew family. Information from various sources for the Peters and Walker families
- Text box: 3 folder: 1
O'Meara family - Family research 1633-1810
- Text box: 3 folder: 2
O'Meara family - Family research 1811-1820
- Text box: 3 folder: 3
O'Meara family - Family research 1821-1900
- Text box: 3 folder: 4
O'Meara family - Family research 1901-1979
- Text box: 3 folder: 5
O'Meara family - John Thomas O'Meara general information
- Text box: 3 folder: 6
O'Meara family - Civil War information for family members who served the Confederacy
- Text box: 3 folder: 7
O'Meara family - Francis O'Meara, Ship Captain (Includes history, manifests, ships records, court records)
- Text box: 3 folder: 8
O'Meara family - Family research - General
- Text box: 4 folder: 1
Voorhees family - Information on Bradford and Smith families
- Text box: 4 folder: 2
Voorhees family - Nelson Voorhees Union CivilWar records
- Text box: 4 folder: 3
Voorhees family - Garnett Voorhees Revolutionary War records
- Text box: 4 folder: 5
Birth Certificates - Beach, Buckley, O'Meara, Walker, Wilson families
- Text box: 4 folder: 6
Births - notes and miscellaneous information for Beach, Buckley, Downs, Gossom, Lynch, Maddox, O'Meara, Voorhees, Walker and other related families
- Text box: 4 folder: 7
Marriage Certificates - Beach, Beaumont, Bickles, Bladen, Buckley, Downs, Farr, Gantt, Gossom, Kearns, Lightfoot, Lynch, MacGill, Matthews, O'Meara, Sloper, Voorhees
- Text box: 4 folder: 8
Marriage Notes - A-B
- Text box: 4 folder: 9
Marriage Notes - C -L
- Text box: 4 folder: 10
Marriage Notes - M-Z
- Text box: 4 folder: 11
Marriage Notes - Miscellaneous
- Text box: 4 folder: 12
Correspondence of Mrs. Leon (Margaret M. O'Meara) MacGill1980-1997
- Text box: 5 folder: 1
Ancestor Charts - Lynch, O'Meara, Voorhees families
- Text box: 5 folder: 2
Death Certificates - Beach, Bladen, Buckley, Cockmill, Downs, Fox, Lynch, Matthew, Mullic, O'Meara, Shackelford, Smith, Straub, Wilson
- Text box: 5 folder: 3
Deaths - Cemetery Records
- Text box: 5 folder: 4
Deaths - Cemetery Records
- Text box: 5 folder: 5
Deaths - Miscellaneous information from various sources
- Text box: 5 folder: 6
Deaths - Requests for death certificates not found in collections
- Text box: 5 folder: 7
Obituaries - A-C
- Text box: 5 folder: 8
Obituaries - D-H
- Text box: 5 folder: 9
Obituaries - I-N
- Text box: 5 folder: 10
Obituaries - O
- Text box: 5 folder: 11
Obituaries - P-S
- Text box: 5 folder: 12
Obituaries - T-Z
- Text box: 5 folder: 13
Obituaries - Miscellaneous notes
- Text box: 6 folder: 1
Census Records - A-D
- Text box: 6 folder: 2
Census Records - E-L
- Text box: 6 folder: 3
Census Records - M-O
- Text box: 6 folder: 4
Census Records - P-Z
- Text box: 6 folder: 5
Census Records - Miscellaneous handwritten notes
- Text box: 6 folder: 6
Deeds - O'Meara family
- Text box: 6 folder: 7
Deeds - Voorhees family
- Text box: 6 folder: 8
Wills - A-D
- Text box: 6 folder: 9
Wills - E-N
- Text box: 6 folder: 10
Wills - O'Meara
- Text box: 6 folder: 11
Wills - O-S
- Text box: 6 folder: 12
Wills - T-Z
- Text box: 6 folder: 13
Contacts of Mrs. Leon (Margaret M. O'Meara) MacGill
- Text box: 6 folder: 14
Miscellaneous Notes
- Text box: 5 folder: 1