wrote on 20 May 2018
at
12:40 am
I am a descendant of Donald Sutherland son of William Sutherland and Janet Bruce.
Donald is my great grandfather. His son was William, his son was also William my father .
Donald immigrated to New Zealand on the Silistria in 1863. He married Elizabeth ( Betsy) Thomson who was on the same ship, after they arrived in New Zealand.
All of Donald's siblings came to New Zealand and settled in the South Island around Balclutha in South Otago. The last to come were Alexander and Christina along with their mother Janet nee Bruce, after the old man William Sutherland died and was buried in the Latheron Church cemetery in Caithness. They, Janet, Alexander and Christina are all buried in Balclutha cemetery. They brought with them Jessie Sutherland who was their granddaughter and niece respectively. y - the first born of the oldest sister Margaret Sutherland who had married a William Sutherland and had come earlier to New Zealand leaving the child with the family - see census data.
Catherine did not die at about 10 years. She too came to New Zealand and married a man called Peter Mark. They lived in Dunedin Otago New Zealand.
My great grandfather Donald and wife Elizabeth are buried in the Clinton cemetery in South Otago as are his son William, my grandfather, and his wives Mary nee Mackie their infant son, as well as Williams second wife Emma Tempero and third wife Mary Jane Tempero who were my grandmother and step-grand mother respectively. The ashes of his fourth wife Irene Rawnsley are also there.
John Sutherland, Donald Sutherland, Margaret Sutherland and Catherine Sutherland all have living descendants in New Zealand and Australia.
I hope this info adds helpfully to your absolutely awesome website. I am not very computer literate but I do have some verifying dates etc I could add if you wish.
Admin Reply:
Hi Rosemary,
Many thanks for the information, I will incorporate it to the database as soon as possible and I apologise for the delay in responding.
Please feel free to email me with any further information you would like to add.
Kind regards,
Phil.
phil@williamsfamilytree.co.uk
I am researching the Trigg family, and a Thomas Trigg born around the turn of 1800 in Westbury on Severn. I find however that there are three people named Thomas Trigg registered on the parish record then viz–
Thomas Trigg christened 1799 born to William and Elizabeth Trigg
Thomas Trigg christened 8th February 1801 born to Jonathan and Frances Trigg
Thomas Trigg christened on 15th November 1801 born to William and Eleanor Trigg.
I can understand that we can probably discount the earlier one but may I ask you please how you determined which of the remaining two Thomas’s is your man i e the son of Jonathan and Frances. There were no burials of a child called Thomas Trigg. Thank you.
I hold my hands up … I ‘borrowed’ the information from http://trees.ancestry.co.uk/tree/65113382/family?fpid=34129719461
Hello
I am the Granddaughter of Edwin Lampard’s daughter Alice Kate who married Charles Dawkins.
My tree is Dawkins Tree on Ancestry – Ericaecous
I live in Dinton five miles east of Tisbury.
My aim is to locate the address in West Tisbury my Grandmother was born and married. I already know about Woodhouse Semley
I am sadly short of old family photos due to a fire years ago
Can you help? Thank you
Hi Heather,
All the information I have about the Lampard family is already on the website. Hopefully, someone reading this might be able to help though.
Good luck with your research.
Phil.