Here we go...Family history

where to start...

3 years ago I could not name my great grandparents with any certainty,

this morning I was making a list of KNOWN surnames for my research trip...

and have 39 Scottish surnames to research (also have English and Irish).

So I thought I'd start documenting names and places

Wallace         Bothwell, Holytown, Lanarkshire
Martin                  Carluke, Lanarkshire
Cunningham         Morham, East Lothian, Newarthall       
Lawson               Dunbar, Gladsmuir, East Lothian
Guthall
Jardine                  Newarthill, Bothwell
Rankine                 Bothwell
Brown                 Bothwell
Middleton          Northumberland, Bo'ness
Pettigrew                Bo'ness
Forgie                 Linlithgow
Law                    Linlithgow
Hardie                 Bo'ness
Gilmour
Levison
Maxwell
Johnston             Bo'ness, West Lothian
Fairlie                Abercorn?, Bo'ness
Flint
Roy                 Shotts
Young              Bothwell
Gibson              Lanark
Finlay               Shotts
Bell                  Shotts
Black                Old Monkland
Cant                  Bo'ness


McLean        Inverness
Fraser            Inverness
MacBain        Fife?
Urquhart
Bust                Lincoln, England
Dreweatt
Kirk
Carruthers          maybe Fife
Michie             Leslie, Fife
McNeish
Kinnaird
McTaggart        Renfrewshire

McKenzie      Wick, Caithness
Cormack                   Caithness
Graham              Sutherland
Gunn                        Caithness
McKay                     Caithness
Davidson             Edinburgh, Wick
Donaldson           East Lothian
Gray
Rodger            Forfar
Esplin
Cooper           Ayrshire or Dumfries
Wilson             Dumfriesshire
Dow                Ayrshire
Frame
Smith             Closeburn, Dumfries





  also time for more geography

lots to find out still
Tuesday 21 Nov 2017