Scotland and Scottish Ancestry

Comment

Comment by Rosemary Miles on January 17, 2011 at 5:01pm

Oh Betty - what an idiot I am - I totally misread your post!!!!  Sorry.  Seems I'm not limited to typos - I have reados also!

Comment by William Douglas on January 17, 2011 at 11:30am

Robin,

To my surprise, I find that he Scottish family King, from the Gaelic, ceann (head or leader) is indeed a sept of the Clan MacGregor.

See the Clan Gregor website for a complete list.

This does not necessarily mean that you have genealogy links to the McGregors (there are various spellings).

In the context of Scottish clans, septs are families that followed another family's chief. These smaller septs would then make up, and be part of, the chief's larger clan. A sept might follow another chief if two families were linked through marriage. However, if a family lived on the land of a powerful laird, they would follow him whether they were related or not. Bonds of manrent were sometimes used to bind lesser chiefs and his followers to more powerful chiefs.

 

Hope this helps,

 

William

www.douglashistory.co.uk 

Comment by james hart on January 17, 2011 at 9:46am

I agree rosemary,Scotlands people is a VERY reasonable site

Comment by Betty Snow on January 17, 2011 at 9:20am

Rosemary

 

I did not say that the charges were expensive I said that the information was extensive. I think the certificates are very good value for the information obtrained.

Comment by Rosemary Miles on January 17, 2011 at 8:37am

I'm quite surprised Betty that you consider Scotlandspeople charges to be expensive.  At 30 credits for 6 pounds or 60 credits for 12 pounds I thought they were particularly reasonable. Most searches which involved me deciding to view/download the certificate only ended up costing me 6 credits if I selected the correct record the first time (1 credit to view the initial search results and 5 credits for the view/download).  Obviously it helps if you have a reasonable idea of who you're looking for and can narrow down the search parameters.

Comment by David Elsworth Mason on January 17, 2011 at 2:32am

My mother's clan the McCurdy/MacKirdy were from the Isle of Bute Scotland.also a Sept of the Stuart of Bute.The line has been DNA tested and proven to be a pure Pictish line the sequence is labeled 1030-A-Sc-22.It is the majority opinion that the MacKirdy of my line was never a part of any Irish migration of the Dal Riada.

Comment by Betty Snow on January 17, 2011 at 1:44am

Robin the best place to start is www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk where you will be able to find his birth on Statutory registers - birth. As this is the first year of the register the information is quite extensive.  You should get the parents names, their marriage and how many other children they have and maybe the father's occupation. This will lead you to their home and maybe to where they came from.

Comment by Robin Liljenquist Anderson on January 16, 2011 at 8:02pm

I am new here and researching scotiish ancestry. My family name is King: William Lewis King came to the US from Cowenbeath, Fife, Scotland. He was born 15 Jan 1855. There are rumors that we tie into the McGregor clan, but I don't know how. Any ideas on where I should go from here?

 

My mom is going to Scotland next summer and we are hoping to find some good places for her to go to research our family.

Comment by Victor Taylor on January 1, 2011 at 1:48pm

Patricia could you provide a little more information. I have come across two Buchan families that arrived in Canada from Scotland on the Cassandra, on Oct 30, 1919. One of the wife's is a Florence, but neither husband is David.

Comment by Donald Richard Mathieson on January 1, 2011 at 1:08pm

Hi Everyone,

At the moment I'm trying to trace my gggggreat grandfatherJames F Mathieson family. All we know is that he was born Jan 23, 1835 in Scotland, his parents were

James & Ann ( Fowler )Mathieson, I have no clue were in Scotland he was born.

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 8
• 9
• 10
• 11
• 12
• …
• 37
• Next ›
• Page