[1] Much of his youth was spent with his maternal grandfather, named Jones, a director of the North and South Wales Bank in Douglas, who lived in a house next to St. Ninian's church.

[1] After a time in a private academy in Finchley Road, Douglas, he spent the remainder of his youth in Maughold and Glen Auldyn.

Also in 1913, Gill performed in a supporting role as Pa'zon Gale in a dramatisation of "Betsy Lee", the first part of T. E. Brown's Fo'c's'le Yarns.

[5] He worked for a time in the Douglas Employment Exchange alongside his friend and the eventual Director of The Manx Museum, William Cubbon.

[1] In 1922, when the Manx Museum was created and Cubbon was appointed its first librarian, Gill assisted him in a voluntary capacity in collating and arranging the manuscripts.

Gill explained the cultural importance of such a seemingly obscure collection in his preface, explaining that the book included:[9] "a number of little known and mostly obsolescent place-names, which, though they are a department of philology from one point of view, from another epitomize many of the motives of a bygone social life, not excepting its customs and superstitions."

In 1932 was published Gill's A Second Manx Scrapbook, which covered second sight, divination, witchcraft, charms, fairies, folk-song and hunt the wren.