Geneology - What's yours?

[Erikm]

The information I have really can't be trusted anyway. It seem's some of my line came from Mary Bruce, daughter of Robert De Brus and Margaret Carrick. Maybe this is not the same line? Mary Bruce married Alexander Fraser. Now this is just some of the information I gatherd from ancestry.com, and I am sure should be taken with a grain of salt.

[ThistleDown]

The information I have really can't be trusted anyway. It seem's some of my line came from Mary Bruce, daughter of Robert De Brus and Margaret Carrick. Maybe this is not the same line? Mary Bruce married Alexander Fraser. Now this is just some of the information I gatherd from ancestry.com, and I am sure should be taken with a grain of salt.

Yes, it probably should be, but the deviation from the thread you started is producing some good discussion between Gilmore and ThistleDown and some fine information is being exchanged. Ta.

[Erikm]

I agree great information

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

Sorry to interrupt the conversation men, but those old photos are great. I have attempted to trace my "roots", and being that i live in New Zealand, and the fact that our country is quite young still (in manner of speaking), it has been relatively easy to track back to my paternal and maternal sides of the family who came out here, those would be
Cunningham - via Lanarkshire (1870)
Mcleod - via Tongue (1867)

I have given up on the other family connections (via marriage etc) (Mcdonalds, Morrision, Mcrae, Irwin, etc), and am quite happy to hand to my children these two lines.

Anyway, side tracked, here is my "old" photo of George Mcleod and Annabelle (nee Mcdonald)




Regards

Phil

[Ancienne Alliance]

Sorry to interrupt the conversation men, but those old photos are great. I have attempted to trace my "roots", and being that i live in New Zealand, and the fact that our country is quite young still (in manner of speaking), it has been relatively easy to track back to my paternal and maternal sides of the family who came out here, those would be
Cunningham - via Lanarkshire (1870)
Mcleod - via Tongue (1867)

I have given up on the other family connections (via marriage etc) (Mcdonalds, Morrision, Mcrae, Irwin, etc), and am quite happy to hand to my children these two lines.

Anyway, side tracked, here is my "old" photo of George Mcleod and Annabelle (nee Mcdonald)



Regards

Phil

Phil, this is absolutely gorgeous !

Do you have more ?

Anyone of the Rabble know if we have an "old photo" thread on Xmarks ?


Best,

Robert

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

Phil, this is absolutely gorgeous !

Do you have more ?

Anyone of the Rabble know if we have an "old photo" thread on Xmarks ?


Best,

Robert

Cheers for that Rob,

Yes, i have another one or two, its sounds like dirty ole George picked up his bride (Annie) to be on the voyage out to our fair land. George built some of the first buildings in Invercargill (very bottom of south island NZ) and was a forming member of the caledonian and pipe band society down there. His picture was recently in the local rag, apparently the society still has the sporran and the brogues by the sound of it...

Anyway...I will run the pics through the scanner at work on monday and post them here.

Regards

Phil

[Sionnachdubh]

My G-G Grandfather was Robrert Innes of Thursater
I am also related to the Grants of Strathspey as wel as Bruces from the area of Thursater(no clue how they got there) Sutherland, and Wallace of Limerick(ireland) no idea of their family history wot!

[Sionnach]

My ancestry is Scots, Irish, English, Danish, Norwegian and Swiss. Sadly, my grandmother on my mother's side was orphaned so no information there except her given last name was Myers- perhaps German.

Of the Scottish ancestry I can trace it back through my great grandmother (mother's side) to Gallacher in Dumphries, Galloway (hear that P1M?), but they trace back to John Gallagher from Co. Donegal who immigrated to Scotland- further research deadends in Co. Donegal, so far.

On my father's side, my grandmother's ancestry goes back to Fitzalan of Arundel- to relatives from Bretagne- back to Scotland to Kenneth Mac Alpin and back to the kings and queens of the Dal Riata- then back to Ireland again- as much as I have been able to trace and if it is all to be believed.

As for my surname Mitchell- it seems to deadend in 1771 in Yorkshire, England with Eli Mitchell.

[BoldHighlander]

Not much time to pull out the genealogical papers, so from the top of my head my surnames are:

Holmes, Scobee/Scobie/Scoby, Moore/O'More, McReynolds/MacRanald, McIlstalker, Shepherd, Grant, Stewart, Dixon, West, Dickinson, Nave, Fultz, Schreckhise, Warner, Barrett, Haynes, Brown, Brooks, Rich, Boren, + many more that I can't recall without the records.

My ancestry is (primarily) Scottish, Scots-Irish, Irish, Cherokee, English; with some German, Austrian, Swiss, Dutch, & Norse thrown in for good measure

[Ryan Nielson]

Fathers side Nielson: Danish, German and a bit of Icelandic

Mothers side: maiden name Kingsbury I have extensive geneology on this mapped back clear to mid 1500s and it's a whole lot of English clear down the line on that side. Way way back there was a kingsbury that married someone with the maiden name kennedy so that's probably my only real celtic connection at all. Kennedy could be an irish or scottish name not sure.

I found an expert on the kingsbury line who wrote some books on the subject and just was able to give him my grandfathers name and he mapped this all out for me about 38 pages long. Amazing