Researching Brian Neill
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1983 people with the Neill surname? In that year Neill was ranked number 1845 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Brian means "Strong" and is of Celtic origin.
Records of Brian Neill on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Brian Neill in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Brian Neill and the Neill Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Neill Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Neill family tree.
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| Did you know that there are currently 5359 people with the Neill surname in the UK? Neill is now ranked number 1105 for popularity in the UK. |
Neill Family History Databases
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Neill Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 12153 people with the Neill surname in the USA? Neill is ranked number 153 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Neill Databases
Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on Brian Neill. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Brian Neill
Brian Neill
Sir Brian Thomas Neill PC QC (2 August 1923 – 24 December 2017) was a British jurist.
He was the son of Sir Thomas Neill, JP and the elder brother of Patrick Neill, Baron Neill of Bladen.
He was educated at Highgate School, where he later served as a Governor for 21 years.
After serving as a Captain in the Rifle Brigade in World War II he attended Corpus Christi College, Oxford, where he was later elected an Honorary Fellow in 1986. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple in 1949, eventually becoming a Queen's Counsel in 1968. In 1972 he became a Recorder of the Crown Court. In 1980–81 he served as Master of the Turners' Company.
As is customary with such judicial appointments, Neill became a Knight Bachelor in 1978 on being named to the High Court of Justice, Queen's Bench Division and was sworn of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom in 1985 on being named a Lord Justice of Appeal.
From 1985 to 1992 he was president of the Society for Computers and Law and from 2009 to 2012 chairman of the Slynn Foundation.
On concluding his service on the Court of Appeal in 1996 he joined the Judiciary of Gibraltar, becoming a Lord Justice, in 1997, and President, in 1998, of the Court of Appeal there before retiring in 2003.
He then returned to practice as an arbitrator in Chambers, joined by his brother.
In 2015 he was appointed a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.
Source: Brian Neill, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Neill
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