Jessie (or Janet) McNEILL
was a handsewer of muslin, born in 1816 in Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland,
the daughter of William McNEILL (a sailor) and Margaret FULLARTON. Her son John McNEILL
married Ann McKENZIE.
John was
a coal miner and later a dynamite instructor, who migrated with his wife and children to Sydney, Australia. John returned to Scotland on a visit and died in Saltcoats in 1887.
The children of John and Ann were:
- Samuel McNEILL who married Mary DILLON
- William McNEILL who died aged 58 without marrying
- Margaret McBride McNEILL who married William Morrison SIMPSON
- Sarah Park McNEILL who married Berend VISSER
- John McNEILL who married Mary O'BRIEN and became a Member of the NSW Parliament (MLA)
- Annie Barbara McNEILL who married William Edward ETHERINGTON
- Alexander McKenzie McNEILL who married Annie LLOYD
- Daniel McNEILL who was born in Sydney, and died there aged 8
- Daisy Jessie McNEILL who was born in Sydney, and later married George William Daniel PAYNE