Robert's GENEALOGY Page

Robert's Genealogy Page

MY RESEARCH

Eight migrations over a 66 year period (1843-1909) brought my ancestors to Australia, with arrivals in Adelaide and Melbourne. Eventually all except one family (Phillips) arrived in Adelaide, South Australia. Later, sometimes only in the next generation, some started moving out again and now descendants of the following are scattered throughout Australia, New Zealand, the USA, UK and South Africa.

The following table lists these migrations.

Year	Ship	Family Name	Last Place of Residence	Port of Arrival
1843	Francis Spaight	Shepherd	Appleton-le-Moors (North Yorkshire)	Adelaide
1850	Brightman	Best	London	Adelaide
1865	Cornwallis	Lanyon	Camborne (Cornwall)	Adelaide
1882	Garonne	Waugh	Jedburgh (Roxburgh, Scotland)	Melbourne
1884	Fleur de Maurice	Jewaskiewitz	Uitenhage (South Africa)	Adelaide
1885	Ligura/Tarawera	Blair	Luss (Scotland)	Melbourne
1885		Phillips	Luss (Scotland)	Melbourne
1909	SS Afric	Baird	Jedburgh (Roxburgh, Scotland)	Melbourne

A maternal great grandmothers (mother's mother's mother) was my first Australian born ancestor, being born at Myponga, South Australia in 1862 and my maternal grandfather was the most recent ancestor born overseas.

My research outside of Australia extends to England, Scotland, South Africa, United States of America, Canada and New Zealand.

FAMILY TREES

My genealogical database currently totals 19,392 persons. One family, SHEPHERD, accounts for about 4,700 persons. The database includes my own family tree as well as those of numerous cousins. Listed below and linked to this page are numerous small trees for individual families which include over 1,000 persons. There is also a page with my direct line back as far as I know.

The trees are cross linked where applicable, so some people will appear on more than one page. I have not included persons known to be still living in my internet trees, so the last generation shown will generally be born around 1900-1910.

Where a time period is not stated in the following tables I am researching it into the 1900's, which in most cases is well after the time when an ancestor of that surname lived.

As well as the family trees I have written a number of pages on the history of some of the families which may also be accessed through the tables below.

I would be pleased to hear from anybody who finds a connection to one of their families on these pages. Please send an email to rdblair.

PATERNAL ANCESTOR LINES

To connect to the family trees click on the surname. Click on the 'YES' in the History column to access the family history.

SURNAME	COUNTRY OF ORIGIN	COUNTY	LOCATION	TIME PERIOD	COUNTRIES FOR RESEARCH
ADAM	SCT	RFW	Paisley	pre 1842	SCT
BLAIR	SCT	RFW LKS	Erskine/Paisley Glasgow		SCT/AUS/NZ/USA
BOLTON	ENG	SRY	Bramley/Dunsfold		ENG
BRANCH	ENG	CON	Gwinear		ENG/AUS/USA/NZ
DODDS	SCT	BEW			SCT/SAF
GILBERT	ENG	DEV	Marytavy/ Buckland Monachorum	pre 1836	ENG
JEWASKIEWITZ	SAF	Cape	Uitenhage	1818+	SAF/AUS
JOHNSON	ENG SAF	KEN Cape	Chatham George	1820's 1820's+	ENG/SAF
LANYON	ENG	CON	Penzance		ENG/AUS/NZ
MANFIELD	ENG	SRY	Bramley/Hascombe		ENG
PHILLIPS	ENG SCT	SRY/SSX ARL	Fernhurst & ? Crinan	pre 1851 c 1852-1885	ENG/SCT/AUS
PRYOR	ENG	CON/DEV			ENG/AUS/USA
RENFREW	SCT	RFW	Paisley	pre 1808	SCT
ROBERTSON	SCT SAF CAN	BEW Cape ONT/QUE	Duns ? George Montreal	pre c 1830 c1839+ ? 1880's	SCT/SAF/CAN/AUS
SCOTT	SCT	RFW	Kilmacolm	pre 1808	SCT
SMITH	ENG	SRY SSX	Godalming Fernhurst	pre 1785 ? 1785+	ENG
TAYLOR	SCT	RFW	Kilmacolm	pre 1800	SCT
WILLS	ENG	CON	Penzance		ENG

MATERNAL ANCESTOR LINES

To connect to the family trees click on the surname. Click on the 'YES' in the History column to access the family history.

SURNAME	COUNTRY OF ORIGIN	COUNTY	LOCATION	TIME PERIOD	COUNTRIES FOR RESEARCH
ALEXANDER	SCT	ROX	Hobkirk		SCT/ENG/AUS
BAIRD	SCT	ROX	Jedburgh	pre 1909	SCT/ENG/AUS
BEST	ENG	DUR NBL MDX	Kirk Merrington Newcastle upon Tyne Marylebone	pre 1787 1787-c1820 1820+	ENG/AUS
DOBSON	ENG	YKS	Lastingham		ENG
DOUGLAS	SCT	ROX	Abbotrule/Jedburgh		SCT
HALL	ENG	DUR	Houghton-le-Spring		ENG
HORSBURGH	SCT	ELN MLN ROX	Aberlady Edinburgh/Liberton Jedburgh	pre 1750 c 1750-c1800 c1800+	SCT/AUS
HUNTER	SCT	ROX	Jedburgh		SCT
JOHNSON	ENG	DUR	Houghton-le-Spring		ENG
LOWNSBROUGH	ENG	YKS	Lastingham		ENG/USA
RUTHERFORD	SCT	ROX	Jedburgh	Pre1875
SCORESBY	ENG	YKS	Cropton		ENG/AUS/USA
SHEPHERD	ENG	YKS	Lastingham		ENG/AUS/CAN/USA/SAF/NZ
SMAIL	SCT	ROX	Jedburgh/Roxburgh		SCT
SWORD	SCT	ROX	Ancrum/Southdean		SCT/ENG/AUS/USA/CAN
THORPE	ENG	YKS	Lastingham		ENG
TURNER	ENG	NBL	Ovingham		ENG
WAUGH	SCT	ROX	Jedburgh		SCT/ENG/AUS/CAN/USA

DNA

I have had my y-DNA tested as well as other BLAIRs who are on my family tree. This has helped confirm the tree with the most recent common ancestor being well back before 1855.
It has also identified some people who belong to my BLAIR family tree but have so far been unable to be added due to the lack of recording of baptisms and marriages at various times in the 1700’s and early 1800’s.
The DNA results also include the haplogroup for my deep ancestry (which is currently somewhere around 1000BC maybe earlier). The most recent (up to date) definition of my haplogroup is R1b1a2a1a1b3c1b1 or R-Z35. This does not take account of the Z384+ and Z276+ snp test results.
Results of SNP tests are: L2+, Z276+, Z35+, Z34+, Z384+, Z367+, P312+, M269+, P25+, L196-, Z275-, Z383-, L20-, L21-, L4-, U106-, M126-, M153-, M222-.

This is at April 2012but changes in the classifications in prior years mean that some (including mine) were known by a different code until then.

My mitochondrial DNA, which is the female line all the way back through the surnames Baird, Waugh, Best, Shepherd, Shepherd, Scoresby and Harland is J1b1a.

I have also had relations tested to determine the Y-DNA for various other lines that I am descended from.
BAIRD Haplogroup R1a1 M198+
WAUGH Haplogroup I1 M253+
SHEPHERD
BRANCH

I have also tested a relationship on the family tree using the FTDNA Family Finder test which assisted to identify who a great great grandfather was.

LINKS TO OTHER GENEALOGICAL PAGES

SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Pioneers Association of South Australia
South Australian Genealogy & Heraldry Society

Family History South Australia

ENGLAND

Cornwall Family History Society
Society of Genealogists

National Archives

SCOTLAND

General Register Office for Scotland
Scotlandspeople
National Archives of Scotland

SOUTH AFRICA

Genealogical Society of South Africa

OTHER COUNTRIES

Blair Society for Genealogical Research

British Columbia (Canada) BDM Indexes

Commonwealth War Graves Commission

Ancestry.com    A subscription website which predominantly covers the USA but also the UK, Europe, Canada and Australia.
                          For the USA the censuses up to 1930 are included as well as many BDM records.
                          For the UK the England and Wales censuses to 1901, GRO BDM Indexes and many parish records are included.

Rootsweb         Links to the Rootsweb Surname List (over 1,200,000 entries of surnames being researched) and the FREEBMD
                         website for England & Wales civil registration BDM indexes.

Castle Garden   A database with more than 10 million persons who migrated to the USA in the period 1830-1892.
Ellis Island        Passenger arrivals at Ellis Island, New York 1892-1954. Over 12 million persons have been indexed and the passenger lists
                         can be viewed online.

Family Tree DNA The leading company for genealogical DNA testing. Hundreds of surname groups have tested with FTDNA and they have
                             one of the largest databases of test results.

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