https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brockton,_Massachusetts https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Plymouth_County,_Massachusetts_Genealogy https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Massachusetts_Newspapers Mr. and Mrs. William McNeil of Brockton, Mass. (William McNeil & Katie E. Brown) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamaica_Plain (Massachusetts) See https://www.nekg-vt.com/tr/tr_st-johnsbury-1926-57.php for possible death No good record for William McNeill or McNeil at Canada, Prince Edward Island Marriage Registers, 1832-1888 https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/1827167 ================================================================= name of newspaper: St. Johnsbury Caledonian location: 190 Federal Street St. Johnsbury, Vermont 05819 phone number: unknown website: http://www.caledonianrecord.com/ source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/ ________________________________________________________ date of article: November 4, 1908 edition: volume 72, number 3718 page: 6 column: 5 source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1908-11-04/ed-1/seq-6/ EAST BURKE. ... Mrs. Edwin Underwood of St. Johnsbury has come to spend the winter with her son, William McNeil. ... ________________________________________________________ date of article: Wednesday, October 2, 1907 edition: volume 70, number 3662 page: 8 column: 2 source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1907-10-02/ed-1/seq-8/ PERSONALS. ... Mrs. William McNeil of Brockton, Mass., spent a few days at her brother's, Grant Brown, last week. ... ________________________________________________________ date of article: Wednesday, September 19, 1906 edition: volume 69, number 3608 page: page 8 column: 1 source: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84023253/1906-09-19/ed-1/seq-8/ PERSONALS. ... Mr. and Mrs. William McNeil of Brockton, Mass., are spending a two weeks' vacation with Mrs. McNeil's brother, Grant Brown. ... ====================================================================== name of newspaper: The Boston Daily Globe location: Boston, Massachusetts date of article: Saturday, February 01, 1896 edition: volume 49, number 32 page: page 11, main edition column: 6 source: https://www.newspapers.com/image/430706341/ about: https://www.loc.gov/item/sn83045484/ Legal Notices ---------------------- COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS--Superior Court, Suffolk, ss--To the Honorable The Justices of the Superior Court, to be holden at Boston, within and for the county of Suffolk--Resprectfully libels and represents Janet Emma McNeill of Boston, in said county, that she was lawfully married to William H. McNeill, now of parts unknown, at Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada, on the the thirteenth day of July, A D 1883, and thereafterwards your your libellant and the said William H. McNeill lived together as husband and wife in this commonwealth, to wit: at Malden, in the county of Middlesex; that your libellant has always been faithful to her marriage vows and obligations, but the said William H. McNeill, being wholly regardless of the same, at Boston aforsaid on the fourth day of March, A D 1890, without just cause, wilfully and utterly deserted your libellant, which desertion has continued from such time to the day of the filing hereof, being more than three consecutive years next prior to the filing of the libel. Wherefore your libellant prays that a divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be decreed between your libellant and the said William H. McNeill. And your libellant represents that there has been born of said marriage a son, William, and a daughter, Pearl, now aged nine and eleven years respectively, and prays that the care and custody of said minor children be decreed to your libellant, and for such other orders and decrees as to your honors shall seem meet, and as justice may require. Dated the thirty-first day of January, A D 1896. JANET EMMA McNEILL. ---------------------- COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS--Suffolk, ss, Superior Court--Clerk's Office, Boston, January 31, A D 1896--On the filing of the forgoing libel, it is ordered that the libellant give notice to the said libellee, William H. McNeill, of the pendency thereof, and to appear before said court at Boston, within and for the county of Suffolk, on the first Monday of March next, by causing an attested copy of her said libel, with this order thereon, to be published once a week, three weeks successively, in The Boston Daily Globe, a newpaper printed in Boston, in the county of Suffolk, the last publication to be fourteen days, at least, before the said first Monday of March, and by sending by mail to the last known address of the said libellee as soon as may be, a registered letter containing a copy of said libel and order fourteen days, at least, before said first Monday of Marchm that the said libellee may then and there show cause why the prayer of said libel should not be granted. JOS. A. WILLARD, Clerk. A true copy of libel and order thereon. Attest: WELLINGTON WELLS, Ass't Clerk. f1-3-10 ====================================================================== name of newspaper: The Sherbrooke Examiner location: Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada phone number: unknown website: unknown edition: volume 18, number 2 date of article: Friday, August 16, 1895 page: 1 source: http://numerique.banq.qc.ca/patrimoine/details/52327/2985309 ... Minton. ------- ... Mr. McNiel and family are at the club house, Blackberry Point, camping. ...