Mary McNeill - MMFFM

[Shona]

Name - "official" name and what they were known as:
Mary McNeill

Date and place of birth:
c1822 Riasg Buidhe, Isle of Colonsay, Argyllshire

Names of parents:
Rebecca Blue and (Alexander?) McNeill, farmer. No marriage record found - probably not married. Rebecca recorded as single on 1851 census

Date and place of baptism - if applicable:
Not known

Details of each of his or her marriages - if any:
Married Irish-born Thomas McGlary

Occupation(s) - if any:
Servant

Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!):
1841 ? Not with mother on Colonsay
1851 ? Possibly Mary Blew, 25, b Colensay, house servant, Hardridge, Kilmalcolm, Renfrewshire
1861 1 Main Street, Greenock, Renfrewshire

Children born in Greenock in 1852, 1854, 1859 and 1861

Date, place and cause of death:
Died on 20 March 1864 at Greenock Infirmary, age 42. Cause: Typhus

Date and place of burial: Not known

Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable:
None found

Memorial inscription - if any:
Not known

For reference:

1841 Colonsay
Rebecca Blue, 35
Catherine Blue, 8
Neil Blue, 6
Iver Blue, 3
Duncan Blue, 3 months

1851 Colonsay
Rebecca Blue, head, unmarried, 48, pauper
Neil McPhyden, son, 16
Iver Blue, son, 12
Duncan McPhyden, son, 10
Ann McNeill, daughter, unmarried, 24
Ann McNeill, grandchild, 1

[kiterunner]

There is a Mary Blue age 15 at Inverchaolain, Argyll, in 1841, occupation peeler (according to ancestry).

[Shona]

Just checked. Don't think it's her - the geography doesn't fit. There is no logical way of getting from Colonsay to Cowal.