Tuesday 28 November 2017

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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