Mary Elizabeth McNeill was our great-grandmother's sister. Great-grandmother was Rachel McNeill, who married William Taggart. She was born in 1863 and died in 1913.
Hi,
( I know this is in the completed section and is an old post - 2007, but hoping you may get a notification in your email in box when I post on this thread. You haven't been online for years.)
I didn't see your post way back in 2007.
Are you sure Rachel didn't die on the 23rd June
1910? ( I'm looking straight at her death certificate . The cert I am holding is definitely the Rachel who's husband was William living in Deerpark farms )
I have been going through my old lines, chasing up things, and by googling brought your old post up.
Do you have her death cert?
What I do not understand is where did you get that date of 1913 that you have from ( Her husband William was widowed in 1911 census and there seems to be no deaths in the BMDS in 1913 that could otherwise be her)
My mother, who knew her gran ,Mary Elizabeth McNeill ( married name Purdy) , had never heard of one of her grans sisters being a Rachel, but she probably wouldn't have if things were hushed up and Rachel being the oldest sister ,dying well before my grandmother (Mary's daughter) was born.
I don't think I've come across a baptism for Rachel ( unlike the others she was born before civil reg), but she is obviously Elizabeth's daughter as Elizabeth ( nee White) does mention her daughter Rachel Taggart.
If you see this, please reply, it's exciting to find a long lost family member.
Kind Regards