Tuesday, 8 September 2015

A Scottish Family Archive

The Lands of Kirkconnell
Many of the readers of this blog will treasure their family documents and photographs. You may have spent many hours scanning and photographing them, as well as trying to work out who is standing next to great uncle Alfred!

We were fortunate to be invited to view the family archive of Francis Maxwell of Kirkconnell, Baron of Newlaw recently. His family archive is on a different level to ours!

A Family Treasure
The first treasure we saw was a handwritten volume written in 1581! As we began to open up the archive boxes we found treasure after treasure. The aim is to expand what we already know on the Maxwell family by tracing younger sons. Although a lot is known about the eldest sons in the Maxwell family less is known about the younger siblings. If you are descended from a younger child this can be frustrating!

 If you are tracing the Maxwells of Newlaw, Kirkconnell, Breoch or Carnsalloch please let us know as we are keen to hear from anybody tracing these families.




We're looking forward to assessing these items in detail

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  1. Bobbi Dodge14 March 2019 at 15:24

    My direct ancestor is John Maxwell b. c. 1793, of co. Tyrone, Ireland m. Rebecca Maxwell b. 1795 in Ireland, daughter of Thomas Maxwell b. c. 1772, of co. Donegal, Ireland m. Mary McKinley b. c. 1776, co. Donegal. John died in Ireland and Rebecca immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1850.
    DNA done by a Maxwell descendant of this family show a certain match to Francis Xavier Maxwell b. 2 May 1876, son of Robert Maxwell b. 7 March 1836 of Breoch and wife Elizabeth Mary Hart of Dublin.
    Francis Xavier's pedigree is shown on p. 593 of the Book of Carlaverock held by the National Library of Scotland. I would love to make a proper connection

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