Mary MCGILL

Born 6 April 1899 in Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland ^[28]
Daughter of shepherd James MCGILL and Janet BELL ^[28]
She was born at and spent the first few years of her life on Changue Farm in Mochrum, Wigtownshire, Scotland ^{[20] [28]}
Departed London, England with her parents and siblings on the steamship Otway on 24 June 1910 ^[203]
After a voyage of juts over a month they arrived on the steamship Otway in Fremantle, Western Australia on 26 July 1910 ^[70]
Resided with her parents at Coorow House in Coorow, Western Australia 1911-1916 ^[P147]
Her name was listed as a prospective student in applications for an assisted State School to be established in Coorow in 1911 ^[215]
In May 1913 her name was used as a prospective student in applications to have the closed Coorow State School reopened ^[215]
Student at the Coorow State School run from a room of their home Coorow House from December 1913 to September 1914 ^[215]
Came 2nd to her sister in the Single Ladies' Race  at the Coorow Football Club's Annual Sports Day on 30 September 1913 ^{[9: 10-Oct-1913]}
Along with her parents left Coorow in June 1916 and shifted to 2 Cavendish Street in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park ^{[30: item 1944135]}
Resided with her parents at 2 Cavendish Street in the Perth suburb of Victoria Park in 1916 and 1917 ^{[6] [30: item 1944135] [P147]}
Resided with her parents at Welshpool Road in the Perth suburb of Queens Park 1918-1920 ^[6]
Resided with her parents on her brother James' Toro Brook Farm in Calingiri 1920-1932 ^{[30: items 1944147, 3008521] [P147]}
Marry John Gillespie THOMSON in 1932 ^[66]
Resided with her husband on farmland in Yerecoin and later in the Perth suburb of Thornlie ^{[2] [P147]}
Mother of Alistair and David ^[P350]
Died 15 August 1977; cremated at Karrakatta Cemetery in Perth, Western Australia ^[2]

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