GROUNDWATER family from Kirkwall ORKNEY Scotland

[turramurra]

Magnus GROUNDWATER b.1771

Parents John Groundwater b.1745 and Margaret Nisbet /Isbister b.1750.

Any family members please who eventually came to Australia?

Turramurra

[barryd]

I learn something new every day. From the Internet.


Last name: Groundwater

This interesting name with variant spellings, Groundwator and Grundwater, is of locational origin from a place so called in Orphir, Orkney Islands, Scotland. The placename derives from the Old English pre 7th Century "grand" ground, plus "waeter" water, hence "groundwater".

[Redroger]

My wife has a C19th relative Jessie Groundwater who migrated I think to New Zealand. Will turn details up.

[trish1120]

FreeREG has the Bapt of Magnus 07 Jul 1771 and has his Mother as Margaret ISBISTER
Father a Seaman

Marriage;
0 Mar 1765   
Margt. ISBISTER
John GROUNDWATER

[turramurra]

Thank you to the two researchers who kindly suggested Groundwater ancestors.
I am trying to find an Australian connection from Magnus Groundwater in Orkney

Hope we can find a family link
Turramurra

[Skoosh]

Best bet is the Orkney Family History Society,

https://orkneyfhs.co.uk/home.php

Skoosh.

[trish1120]

I found this list;
https://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/GROUNDWATER

Is there someone on there you are trying to link back to Magnus?

[turramurra]

Thank you to both replies

Excellent help for GROUNDWATER.

Corowa in Victoria and Sydney NSW were places of GROUNDWATER habitation.

Good to have these brain puzzles in lockdown especially as usual volunteer work has ceased!
rootschat is a group of caring researchers THANK YOU All!
Turramurra

[Redroger]

As promised the following people named Groundwater appear in my wife's tree:Thomas Groundwater who married Janet REid 17 November 1831 Orphir Orkney she died at Kirkwall in 1842 Margaret b1833 Janet Pollexfen b1836 (the connection to my wife's tree) Thomas Flett (1838) and Isabella (1842). The connection was in Australia, and not New Zealand as I said earlier