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Rev. Dr. Edward Marcus Dill

1813 — 1862

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Edward Marcus Dill was born at Knowehead on 7 March 1813 to Rev. Richard Dill and Grace Cochrane. A minister with medical training, he married Sarah Jane Robinson on 9 August 1837. He died at Fethard on 23 November 1862. The Macky family account identifies him as William Marcus’s maternal uncle and baptizer.

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Rev. Richard Dill → Rev. Dr. Edward Marcus Dill · Richard Dill and Edward Marcus Dill — Dictionary of Irish Biography

Rev. Richard Dill → Rev. Dr. Edward Marcus Dill · The Peerage, page 38200, citing Burke’s Irish Family Records (1976), p.360

Grace Cochrane → Rev. Dr. Edward Marcus Dill · Richard Dill and Edward Marcus Dill — Dictionary of Irish Biography

Grace Cochrane → Rev. Dr. Edward Marcus Dill · The Peerage, page 38200, citing Burke’s Irish Family Records (1976), p.360