Surname Saturday: Wilson in Peterhead Scotland
February 6, 2010 by Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Filed under family history
#surname Saturday
My grandmother, Elizabeth (WILSON) KERR on my father’s side of the family came from Peterhead Scotland.
She was the daughter of Martin Watson WILSON, b. 1857 Scotland married to Margaret Metcalf ROBERTSON.
Martin WILSON worked on the railroad and their first residence was at Boddam, Scotland.
Martin and Margaret had four children: Alex, Mary, Martin and Elizabeth. [...]
My Grandmother was a Blue Tooner!
April 12, 2009 by Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Filed under Scotland, genealogy
Randy Seaver at Genea Musings challenges the genealogy online crowd every Saturday Night to some Genealogy Fun.
The challenge this week:
1. Pick a place that you have ancestry, but don’t know much about.
I picked Peterhead, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, birthplace of my paternal grandmother, Elizabeth WILSON (b. 1884 Peterhead), daughter of Martin Watson WILSON and Margaret Metcalf ROBERTSON.
2. Go [...]
Our Scottish Surnames
April 4, 2009 by Luxegen Genealogy and Family History
Filed under Scotland, genealogy
I was chatting with a Scottish fellow today and it brought to mind I ought to do more research on my Scottish grandmother and her family.
In a very timely fashion Dick Eastman did a post on the availability of Scottish records on line.
The digital images, on scotlandspeople.gov.uk, the official Government source of genealogical data for [...]
