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
Bond	England 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 members 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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