If your origins can
be traced back to Scotland around
last century (my great great grandparents left to go to Australia about
1860) then send me a message as we have a number of arms of the family
we would like to trace.
For those wanting to know
there is an entire wing of the Family name in and around Queensland
and I have most of their contact details as my grandfather came to
New Zealand early
this century from that wing of the family.
We believe that some of the
arms of the family may have gone to America and even elsewhere in New Zealand
and we are aware of some who have remained in Scotland and the U.K. and
who have been contacted by my Aunt and we hold a family bible going back
to late in the 18th Century which has some names we have not
traced yet. We have traced
the Brazilian link through one of the missing names and this is now in
the database.
It is notable that many of
the early family tree members were military officers and at least one died
in battle. This may be a course followed by some descendants as it was
normal to purchase your commission prior to this century. Investigations
have shown a number of decendants serving in India and all to be commisioned
officers with some reaching very high ranks.
It is intended to update these
pages further as details come in. For now the following Pages have been
established to provide the base information for those interested.
