At the end of this message, I will give some evidence that there were McDill who went by the name of Dill. John Dill was the first recorded Dill in County Donegal Ireland. John Dill was recorded 1665 on the Hearth Money Roll. The name of Dill did not exist in Ireland before the 17th century. The name of Dill was brought to Ireland during the Ulster Plantation. Edward MacLysaght wrote The Surnames of Ireland. MacLysaght wrote that the Dill of Donegal had an English name. I think MacLysaght was wrong about the origin of these Dill. There are many Gaelic names in our haplogroup. On the early censuses, there was an isolated cluster of many Dill living in Kirkcudbrightshire (East Galloway) and Wigtownshire (West Galloway). There were also a lot of McDill living in Kirkcudbrightshire on the early censuses. I recently found William McDill and Matt Muir on the internet. William McDill has visited family in Scotland. Matt Muir lives in Scotland and has McDill/Dill ancestry. William McDill and Matt Muir tell me that McDill and Dill is the same name. The following is the evidence that I was able to get that show that there were McDill who went by the name of Dill. I appreciate if anyone can give me more evidence that there were McDill who went by Dill: (1) On page 66 of Parish Lists of Wigtownshire and Minnigaff 1684, there is listed John McDill and his wife, Margrett Coning. Their daughters are listed as Janet and Helen Dills. (2) William McDill gave me information on his ancestor, James McDill who was more commonly known as James Dill. The following is the first sentence from an article on page 4 of the Dumfries & Galloway Standard dated 22 Aug 1896. The article was titled The Fatality at the Caledonian Station: Yesterday and inquiry under the Fatal Accidents Inquiry Act was conducted before Colonel Shortt, honorary Sheriff Substitute and a jury in the Dumfries Sheriff Court, into the circumstances of the accident which occurred at the Caledonian goods yard on 11th Court, through which James McDill (more commonly known as James Dill), a shepherd in the employment of Mr David Steel, farmer, Auchenfranco, Lost his life.  Lawrence Dill