Gill, Margaret Catherine (Currie)

  • DICTIONARY OF CANADIAN BIOGRAPHY ARTICLE: Gwendolyn Davies, “GILL, MARGARET CATHARINE (Currie),” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 13, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–. https://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/gill_margaret_catharine_13E.html
  • DCB profile notes:
    • Poet; b. in Springhill, N.B., 14 June 1843, the daughter of Thomas Gill and Catharine Gaynor; m. 2 Nov. 1864 George William Currie in St Marys Parish, N.B., and they had two sons and two daughters; d. 7 Aug. 1906 in Fredericton.
    • Margaret Gill was the granddaughter of Ensign Thomas Gill of the Maryland Loyalists, and her literary imagination is said to have been influenced by the stories of the American Revolutionary War that her father passed on to her.” and her poems were ” Dedicated “to the descendents of the loyalists throughout the province of New Brunswick,” the poems were written “to preserve the memory of the Loyalists from oblivion.”
  • United Empire Loyalist descendent from Thomas Gill who is now listed in Loyalist Directory effective June 11, 2025.: https://uelac.ca/loyalist-directory/detail/?wpda_search_column_id=15759
  • Find a GRAVE: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/92725178/margaret-catherine-currie