My Banffshire families...

[Napier12]

hi Derek, My great grandfather was Alexander Wood(Park) his daughter Caroline Slater nee Wood was my grand mother.Isabella Giffords parents were Edmund Gifford and Jane Geddes, and they were not married. Our great great grandfathers George Woods parents were Ann Sutherland and Alexander Wood. Caroline nee Slater

[Bill Wood]

hi Derek, My great grandfather was Alexander Wood(Park) his daughter Caroline Slater nee Wood was my grand mother.Isabella Giffords parents were Edmund Gifford and Jane Geddes, and they were not married. Our great great grandfathers George Woods parents were Ann Sutherland and Alexander Wood. Caroline nee Slater

Hello,

Alexander Wood born 1810ish and married to Ann Sutherland is my great great great grandfather - sounds like you and I are 3rd cousins ?

I can send you a ged file if you like

Although there is a lot of data out there I do wonder about the accuracy of the 1700s stuff - I quite easily "hoovered up" a heap of people on that line on ancestry that got me back to mid 1600s.


Bill (Australia)

[Napier12]

Hi Bill, I would love to have any info that u have on our family, I have only just started looking, after my parents left Portknockie last year and came to live with us in South Africa.
Caroline

[Bill Wood]

Caroline,

I have sent you a Personal Message with my email address - if you let me know your own email address I can send you what information I have got so far,

The lady who started this thread will also have some info relevant to your tree.

There is another website that I can email you details of - the Pirie family tree they link up with us somewhere and there is a chap with a huge Pirie  tree that contains some Wood folk.

Regards

Bill

[Rosemary Cottage]

Hi Bill (and everyone else)

I would love the link the the Banffshire Pirie's. I have just found out my connection to them in the last month.

These are the family members taken from the 1891 Census. They left for NZ in 1895

Person: PIRIE, James      
Address: 20, Thomson Road, Litherland, Seaforth
PIRIE, James Wood   Head   1858
PIRIE, Mary   Wife   1858
PIRIE, Alexander   Son   1878
PIRIE, Jane   Daughter   1880
PIRIE, Andrew   Son   1882
PIRIE, Mary   Daughter   1884
PIRIE, James   Son   1886
PIRIE, Euphemia   Daughter   1888
PIRIE, Barbara Campbell Daughter 1890

Regards,
Julie

[Bill Wood]

Hello,

Good Pirie web site is here

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/

Bill

[rob 68]

I have just started tracing my family history, I am Symon living in Englad, and have managed to trace back as far as 1871 Scottish census to a William Symon D.O.B 1841 born in Fordyce Banffshire. If you have any information or ideas on how I can trace back further please reply.

[Bill Wood]

Rob,

Go to Scotlands People website. It is excellent.

Other useful ones are Ancestry, IGI, Genes Reunited

Regards

Bill

[kiwihalfpint]

Hello,

Good Pirie web site is here

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/pirie/

Bill

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the link, seen two on my tree I don't have the death dates.


Cheers
KHP