Tuesday 16 May 2017

The Children of Samuel Marcus Dill and Agnes Rowe

Index of wills.
Samuel Marcus Dill was the executor
of the wills of both his mother,
(the grand-daughter of Susanna West) and father.
Samuel Marcus Dill, the second child of Robert Foster Dill and Catherine Haughton Rentoul was educated in Geneva and Belfast, and graduated finally as a Doctor of Divinity from Belfast Theological College. 

He was the Minister at Alloway, Ayrshire, and by 1912, the very year the Titanic sank, had become Moderator of the Church of Scotland. 

He married Agnes Rowe in 1878 in Toxteth, Liverpool, and their nine children were as follows:

i) Agnes Edith Dill (1879-1881). Born and died in Balleymena, County Antrim, Ireland.

ii) Kathleen Norah Dill (1880-1965). Born in Ballymena, County Antrim and died in Peebles, Scotland.

iii) Marcus Graham Dill (1882-1966). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, died in Edinburgh.

iv) Robert Foster Dill (1883-1915). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, died in France. 

v) Agnes Rosa Dill (1887-1927). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, died in Upper Norwood, Surrey.

vi) John Rowe Dill (1889-1915). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, and died in France.

vii) Louisa L M Dill (1892-1973). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire.

viii) Hessy Foster Dill (1892-1975). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, and died in Croydon, Surrey. She married William Jackson.

ix) Alfred Vincent Dill (1894-????). Born in Alloway, Ayrshire, and was living in Lanark, Lanarkshire in 1976.

These children were all fourth cousins of Hetty Jane Owen.

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