Scottish Roots & Aussie Beginnings
It has been long known through the various arms of our families in Australia that our Wilson...
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Month: January 2018
John Wilson (the Mason) of Laws – Home Sweet Home
It is interesting to observe the identification of the Angus ‘cities’ and villages of our...
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Scottish Origins – Margaret Bowman of Dunnichen
Dunnichen, in the old Gaelic ‘Dun Nectan’ meaning ‘Hill Fort’ or...
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Scottish Origins – Newbigging Village
Newbigging (an Anglo-Saxon word literally meaning ‘new house/building’) village...
Read MoreScottish Origins: of Monifieth, Monikie, Barry; and older times past
Baptism, marriage and death records show that during the period 1770 to 1800 our Wilson family were identified as living at Laws or Drumsturdy. Sometime after 1782 they moved just a couple of hundred metres along the Drumsturdy...
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