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McConnel (surname)
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McConnel is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Douglas McConnel (1893–1961), British Army officer *John McConnel (1806–1899), Australian pastoralist and politician *Mary McConnel (pioneer) (1824–1910), Scottish settler and hospital administrator *May Jordan McConnel (1860–1929), Australian trade unionist and suffragist * Michael McConnell (born 1942), one half of the first same-sex couple to be married legally with a license that was never revoked *Ursula McConnel (1888–1957), Australian anthropologist and ethnographer *William McConnel (1809–1902), English industrialist See also *McConnell (surname) McConnell or McConnel is an Irish and Scottish surname. It is derived from the Gaelic language, Gaelic ''Mac Dhòmhnaill'' (see MacDonnell (surname), MacDonnell). Alternatively in Ireland, it may be derived from ''Mac Conaill'' meaning 'son of Conal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Douglas McConnel
Major-general (United Kingdom), Major-General Douglas Fitzgerald McConnel (9 June 1893 – 7 February 1961) was a senior British Army officer who served as General officer commanding, General Officer Commanding (GOC) Palestine Command, British Troops in Palestine and Trans-Jordan. Military career Born the son of William Holdsworth McConnel, a Royal Navy officer, and Florence Emma (''née'' Bannister). He was born with a twin brother, George Malcolm, who died in 1908. Douglas was educated at Winchester College and then entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. He played in the Association Football XI in 1910-11 and the Lord's XI in 1911. After Passing out (military), passing out from Woolwich, McConnel was Officer (armed forces), commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Royal Artillery on 20 December 1912, alongside future generals Ivor Thomas (British Army officer), Ivor Thomas, William Henry Buchanan Mirrlees, William Mirrlees, William Duthie Morgan, William Morgan, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John McConnel
John McConnel (3 October 1806 – 27 January 1899) was pastoralist and politician in Queensland, Australia. He was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council. Pastoralist On 1 January 1851 McConnell joined in partnership with his brother David and they purchased Durundur Station, previously belonging to the Archer brothers, who moved to the Burnett region. In 1851 the McConnels owned 400 cattle and 10,000 sheep on their Brisbane River Valley properties. Politics McConnel was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council The Queensland Legislative Council was the upper house of the parliament in the Australian state of Queensland. It was a fully nominated body which first took office on 1 May 1860. It was abolished by the Constitution Amendment Act 1921, which to ... on 24 April 1861 and served until his resignation on 16 July 1868. Later life He died in 1899 and was buried in Bald Hills Cemetery. References Members of the Queensland Legislative Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary McConnel (pioneer)
Mary MacLeod McConnel (4 January 1824 – 4 January 1910) was a Scottish settler in the Australian colony of Queensland, who founded Brisbane's first children's hospital in 1878; it became the Royal Children's Hospital, Brisbane in 1883. Early life Mary McLeod/MacLeod was born on 4 January 1824 in Edinburgh, the daughter of excise officer Alexander McLeod/MacLeod and his wife Catherine/Katherine (née Rose), and baptised on 2 February 1824 at St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh. On 24 April 1848, she married David Cannon McConnel at St Cuthbert's Church in Edinburgh. David McConnel had previously emigrated to the colony of Queensland in 1840, where he had founded Cressbrook Homestead, named after his father's mill in Derbyshire. Pioneer life in Queensland On 27 December 1848, the McConnels departed The Downs on board the sailing ship '' Chaseley'' arriving in Brisbane on 1 May 1849. Her husband built "Bulimba", the first stone house in Brisbane, and their first son was bor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Jordan McConnel
Mary Emma "May" Jordan McConnel (6 September 1860 – 28 April 1929) was an Australian trade unionist and suffragist. She was the first paid female trade union organiser in Queensland. Life McConnel née Jordan was born on 6 September 1860 at George Street, Brisbane, the daughter of politician Henry Jordan and his wife, Elizabeth (née Turner). She trained as a teacher and nurse. She was secretary of the Tailoresses' Union, was heavily involved in the formation of the Brisbane Women's Union, treasurer of the Women's Equal Franchise Association, and inaugural general secretary of the women's section of the Australian Labour Federation. It was for the Labour Federation that she would begin working for as an organiser in 1890. In March 1890, she became engaged to David Rose McConnel of Cressbook Station (first Director of the Central Technical College in Brisbane). The couple were married at Sherwood on 24 December 1890 announcing that she did not intend to relinquish her work wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael McConnell And Jack Baker
James Michael McConnell (born 1942) and Richard John "Jack" Baker (born 1942) are the first same-sex couple to be married legally with a license that was never revoked.Newsletter (p. 6), "Hidden Treasures from the Stacks", September 2013available onlinefrom ''The National Archives at Kansas City''. Their wedding became the earliest same-sex marriage ever to be recorded in the public files of any civil government. McConnell, a librarian, and Baker, a law student, were gay activists in the U.S. state of Minnesota from 1969 to 1980. After their marriage in Minnesota on 3 September 1971, they were invited often to appear publicly at colleges, schools, businesses and churches in the U.S. and Canada. In late 1971, the Minnesota Supreme Court in ''Baker v. Nelson'' affirmed the lower court order to deny a marriage license to same-sex partners."Minnesota Statutes Annotated", ''West Publishing Co.'' (1970) * Chapter 517.01: Marriage a civil contract. "Marriage, so far as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula McConnel
Ursula Hope McConnel (1888–1957) was a Queensland anthropologist and ethnographer best remembered for her work with, and the records she made of, the Wik Mungkan people of Cape York Peninsula. First trained at University College London, then supervised by Professor Alfred Radcliffe-Brown in the Department of Anthropology, University of Sydney, McConnel was one of the first women to be trained in anthropology and then go out to observe Aboriginal Australians in remote areas, systematically documenting, recording, and describing their culture, mythology, beliefs, and way of life.Perusco, Anne O'Gorman "McConnel, Ursula Hope (1888–1957)" Accessed 8 June 2009 Early life Born on a grazing property called "Cressbrook" (near[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William McConnel
William McConnel (1810 – 10 October 1902) (sometimes written: William McConnell) was a British industrialist and mill-owner from Lancashire, England. He founded the Aberdovey Slate Company that ran the Bryn Eglwys slate quarry from 1863 onwards and oversaw the construction of the associated Talyllyn Railway. Cotton mill owner The McConnel family were owners of a series of large cotton spinning mills in Ancoats in the city of Manchester.The first mill, Sedgewick Mill, was built between 1818 and 1821 by the company of Messrs. McConnel & Kennedy under the chairmanship of James McConnel, William's father, and in partnership with John Kennedy. James McConnel died in 1831 and three of his sons, Henry, James and William became partners in the business. By 1833, the McConnel & Kennedy Mills were the largest importer of cotton from America, and Sedgwick Mill was one of the largest mills in operation in the United Kingdom. Henry retired from the business in 1860 and his brother J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
