Family Names part of the past New Zealand and Overseas

Orchids passed around family members and friends - photo courtesy Chris Ball

Found a couple of hundred years ago my families I descended from seemed to have large families - lots of siblings and if a wife died it was another and even more siblings. These siblings of course, got married and in my family tree looked at , as it exists today, I can see many different surnames, many cousins spread across New Zealand and overseas. There would have been large family gatherings back then of nieces, nephews, uncles and aunts. Typical of all of us.

Now DNA testing is " all the rage" in genealogy and family history.  Through testing can discover one’s own DNA story and unlock the secrets of your ancestry and genealogy. Have found can go back a long way, to origins out of other continents – Ancient Persia, Asia, Africa. Many of my families being 

seafarers, farmers and traders originally, have spread their roots across the world.DNA Detectives,a television programme on TV One, New Zealand, currently traces families of some well – known personalities across the world.

Photo of World  courtesy Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/ball-shaped-blur-close-up-focus-346885/

 With Internet proving most useful for family history research, find can look up a  website that gives some meanings and origins of  the many surnames - The Internet Surname Database

 

Anderson -  Sweden , Knowhead Scotland, New Zealand

Angus - Dumbarton, Scotland, South America

Arndell - Herefordshire England, New South Wales Australia

Bagnall - England, Prince Edward Island Canada, New Zealand

Barr -      Scotland, New Zealand

Bennett - England, Australia

Berghan – Ireland, Australia, New Zealand

Black -      Scotland, New Zealand

Borthwick - Scotland, England, New Zealand

Buckland - England, New Zealand

Cains – England , Australia, New Zealand

Carr -    New Zealand

Chalmers - Australia, Fiji

Clark -  New Zealand

Cleland - Glasgow Scotland,

Colebrook - England, New Zealand

Collins - England, Australia, New Zealand

Cooke -  Ireland, New Zealand

Corbett - England, New Zealand

Craig -    Scotland, New Zealand

Davis –    England, Australia, New Zealand

Durrieu – France, England, New Zealand

Ellis –      Scotland, England, Australia,  New Zealand

Forsyth -  Scotland, New Zealand

Fowler -    Scotland, England, New Zealand

Gibb -      Glasgow Scotland, USA, New Zealand

Gibbs -     New Zealand

Gray -      Scotland, England, New Zealand

Gorrie -    Perthshire, Scotland, New Zealand

Grono -     Wales, Australia

Gunion -   Glasgow Scotland , New Zealand

Hally -      Auchterarder, Scotland, New Zealand

Hanna -     Ireland, New Zealand

Hansen -    England, Australia, New Zealand

Harper -     England, Australia

Hollis -       New Zealand

Houston -   Ireland, New Zealand

Hughes -    England, Australia

Jackson -   Yorkshire, England, New Zealand

King –       Scotland, England, Australia, New Zealand

Kirk -         Scotland, New Zealand

Kisielowski - Poland, England, USA, Australia, New Zealand

Litchfield - England, New Zealand, Australia

Lyons -      France, England, Australia

Macfarlane -  Larnarkshire  Scotland, England, New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, Jamaica

Martin -   Scotland, New Zealand

Matthews - England, New Zealand

McNaughtan - Scotland

McRae -    Scotland, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand

Mobbs –    England , Australia

Monro –    Scotland, New Zealand

Moody  -   Scotland , New Zealand

Morton –    Scotland, England,  New Zealand, Australia

Murray –     Scotland, New Zealand

Pierce  -      Scotland, England, New Zealand

Reid  -       Glasgow , Scotland

Ring    -      Guernsey, Australia, New Zealand

Robertson   Scotland, Australia, New Zealand

Russell         Ireland, New Zealand, England

Stevenson    Scotland, New Zealand

Stewart        Perthshire Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, South America

Stewart        France, Larnarkshire Scotland, New Zealand, Australia

Stewart        France,  Bute Scotland, New Zealand

Thomson      Scotland, New Zealand

Tod              Scotland, New Zealand, USA

Tunks           England, Australia, New Zealand

Upton          England, New Zealand

Vickerman   England, New Zealand, Australia

Wall            Scotland, New Zealand

Whyte         Scotland, England,  New Zealand

White          Ireland , Scotland, England, USA , New Zealand

Williams      England, New Zealand

Wilson        Scotland, England, New Zealand

Woods        England, Australia, New Zealand

 Many family came by sea, arriving to settle in the early years of European settlement. The first of these settlers to Australasia was William Tunks ( AKA Tonks) a marine aboard the flagship of the First Fleet - the HMS Sirius.

 A number arrived on New Zealand shores between 1820 and 1860 so are regarded as early settlers.

 Many came because of occupation and some were involved with the construction of railways  and roading in New Zealand, South America and USA. Places that before this were raw land.  From those early days family numbers have grown through the decades to what there is now in 2017.

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