Scottish Origins – Margaret Bowman of Dunnichen
Dunnichen, in the old Gaelic ‘Dun Nectan’ meaning ‘Hill Fort’ or...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Jan 17, 2018 | Stories I |
Dunnichen, in the old Gaelic ‘Dun Nectan’ meaning ‘Hill Fort’ or...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Jan 16, 2018 | Stories I |
Newbigging (an Anglo-Saxon word literally meaning ‘new house/building’) village...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Jan 15, 2018 | Stories I |
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...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Jan 14, 2018 | Stories I |
Regrettably to this point no image of William Hartley Wilson, the first of our Australian pioneer Wilson forebears, has been found; we are more fortunate with William’s spouse Margaret, having two images, which tend to support...
Read MorePosted by lauriewilson | Jan 12, 2018 | Stories I |
Our knowledge of William Hartley’s bride, Margaret Williamson, is fairly limited.(** see footnote). The legend within the ranks of our Tassie cousins is that Margaret may have been a Governess; it goes on that William had a...
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