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John McGonigal
« on: Saturday 25 February 23 09:07 GMT (UK) »
Commonwealth War Graves Commission are appealing for blood relatives of Sergeant John McGonigal
- service no 17 - Black Watch Royal Highlanders - died 15/8/1920 - buried Dundee Eastern Necropolis.
aged 56 years.
Division: 1st/4th Battalion transferred to (528935) Labour Corps
Honours/Awards: Mentioned in Despatches (Mid)

Son of George and Jane Ann McMillan McGonigal of Dundee, Scotland; husband of Jessie Low Calvert McGonigal of Fingask Street, Dundee. -

FIND A GRAVE


Dundee Eastern Cemetery
Dundee, Dundee City, Scotland
PLOT EE. 3. 262.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/135446428/john-mcgonigal

If you are related or can help, CWGC would like to hear from you.

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Re: John McGonigal
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 28 November 23 09:56 GMT (UK) »
His wife, Jessie, died in the Broughty Ferry area in 1945. Newspaper death notice only mentions her late husband and her late father. Two infant deaths in 1890 that may have been children of this couple. Three other possible births to the couple too, in 1888, 1891 and 1896 being a George (looks to have married an Alexandra Kyd in 1917), Catherine (died 1966, married surname Stevenson) and Eliza (died 1919), with Eliza possibly named after the Eliza who died in 1890.
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Re: John McGonigal
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 28 November 23 10:13 GMT (UK) »
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.  FORMER CARNOUSTIE BAILIE DIES.

 FORMER CARNOUSTIE BAILIE DIES. Mr George Calvert McGonigal, a former Carnoustie magistrate, died in Cape Town, South Africa, this week. From 1917 to 1946 Mr McGonigal, a native of Dundee, carried on business as a chemist and optician at a shop in High...

21 March 1953

Broughty Ferry Guide and Advertiser

Dundee, Angus, Scotland
 

Above chap looks to have been same George Calvert McGonigal. Newspapers mention only his wife, and that they moved to SA in 1947.

For checking:

Possibly a daughter, Kathleen Kydd McGonigal born 1922, died Glasgow area in 1993, and possible married surname Dickson. Marriage in 1946 to a Hugh Monet Dickson (died 2012, in Paisley area).
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