Maria Maxwell
Maria Maxwell
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of George Maxwell
and [private mother (1900s - 2000s)]
Descendants 
Mother of
[private daughter (1970s - unknown)]
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Maria Maxwell is a member of Clan Maxwell.
Maria Maxwell has Irish ancestors.
Contents |
Biography
Maria Maxwell was born in Scotland.
I was born in Taylor Street, Townhead Glasgow. (Spookily enough just round the corner from where Charles Rennie Mackintosh was born in Parson Street) I love everything to do with CRM especially the jewellery designs !!
Taylor St, Townhead, Glasgow
Taylor St, July 1955
Crookston Castle, Pollok, Glasgow
Crookston Castle
I lived in Pollok Glasgow from 3 months old till I was 15. Our house was a five minute walk away from Crookston Castle. It was the meeting and play place for local children. Many's a time I climbed up the tower and looked out over "my kingdom."
Pollok House
Pollok House
When I travelled into the City of Glasgow my route took me past Pollok House.
When I started working as a Civil Servant I moved to East Kilbride and lived near Calderwood Castle estate for years.
Little did I know (or care) then that Pollok and Calderwood were two of the ancestral homes of the Maxwell Clan. I seem to have been following my roots for years.
I now live on a farm in West Lothian Scotland on land once owned by a direct ancestor on my maternal line one Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland.
I'd been meaning to start a family tree for years but is took the birth of my great-grandson in 2012 to start my serious interest in genealogy. I then discovered how little I actually knew about my own family !! By that time my parents were no longer here to answer questions. I've now discovered and am in contact with relatives in Canada, Australia, USA, Ireland and England as well as here in Scotland, and on/through WikiTree !!
Amazing film from 1961 Mungo's Medals - featuring lots of places from my life !!
- Glasgow Gorbals - where my dad was born and lived.
- Crookston Castle and Pollok where I grew up
- Moss Heights where my family lived from early 1960's
- East Kilbride - where I lived from early 1970's to 2006.
http://dirtymodernscoundrel.blogspot.co.uk/2013/06/build-and-build-and-build-and-build.html
Relationships
Famous Scots
- Sir Maccus de Maccuswell Maccus de Maccuswell (1130- )- direct ancestor 28 generations
- Sir Aymer de Maccuswell 2nd Lord of Caerlaverock Sir Aymer de Maccuswell 21 Great Grandfather.
- Duncan 1 - King of Scotland (Alba) - direct ancestor 29 generations
- Robert the Bruce King of Scotland - 22nd great grandfather - direct ancestor
- King Robert 2nd Stewart - direct ancestor 21 generations (19th GGF with 10 common ancestors within 25 generations)
- King Robert 3rd (John) Stewart King Robert III of Scotland - direct ancestor 20 generations (18th GGF with 13 common ancestors within 25 generations)
- King James 1 of Scotland - 17th Great Grandfather
- Gavin Maxwell Author of Ring of Bright Water - 13th cousins
Scottish Nobility
- Sir James Kennedy of Dunure direct ancestor 15th Great Grandfather
- William 1st Lord Crichton direct ancestor 16th Great Grandfather.
- George Leslie 4th Earl of Rothes 20th Great Grandfather
- Alexander Stewart 4th High Steward of Scotland - 22nd Great Grandfather
- Sir Gilbert de la Hay 3rd Laird of Erroll - 22nd Great Grandfather.
Declaration of Arbroath 1320
(According to the relationship finder !! )
- Duncan MacDuff 7th Earl of Fife - 2nd cousin 22 times removed.
- Patrick Dunbar - 8th Earl of Dunbar - 2nd cousin 22 times removed.
- Malise 39th Jarl of Orkney - 6th cousin 19 times removed.
- Malcolm Lennox 5th Earl of Lennox - 3rd cousin 21 times removed.
- William Ross 3rd Earl of Ross - 24th Great Grandfather.
- Sir Walter Stewart 6th High Steward of Scotland -21st Great Grandfather.
- Sir James Douglas The Black Douglas - 21st Great Grandfather.
- Sir David de Brechin - 2nd cousin 23 times removed.
- Sir David Graham of Kincardine - 22nd Great Grand Uncle
- Sir John (Stewart) Menteith Lord of Arran - 24th Great Grandfather.
- Lord Alexander Fraser Lord Chamberlain of Scotland - 3rd cousin 24 times removed.
- Gilbert de la Hay Constable of Scotland - 1st cousin 22 times removed
- Robert Keith - Marischal of Scotland -23rd Great Grandfather.
- Henry St Clair Baron of Roslin - 23rd Great Grandfather
- John Graham Lord of Dalkeith, Abercorn & Eskdale -2nd cousins 23 times removed.
- David Lindsay Lord of Crawford - 20th Great Grand Uncle
- John de Fenton of Baikie and Beaufort - 23rd Great Grand Uncle.
- William de Abernethy 2nd Baron of Saltoun - 23rd Great Grandfather.
- Sir David Wemyss of Wemyss - 22nd Great Grandfather.
- Sir Andrew Leslie 6th Lord of Leslie - 5th Cousin 24 times removed.
- Donald Campbell Domhnall mac Cailein - 3rd cousins 22 times removed.
to be continued !! amazing
Magna Carta Surety Barons
(According to the relationship finder !! )
- William d'Aubigny - 2nd cousin 25 times removed.
- Hugh le Bigod - 25th Great Grandfather.
- Henry de Bohun - 1st cousin 25 times removed.
- Gilbert de Clare - 26th Great Grandfather.
- John Fitz Robert- 2nd cousin 26 times removed.
- Robert FitzWalter- 2nd cousin 25 times removed.
- William de Huntingfield- 2nd cousin 25 times removed
- John de Lacy -26th Great Grand Uncle
- William de Lanvallei - 1st cousin 26 times removed
- William de Mowbray - 2nd cousin 26 times removed
- Saher de Quincy - 26th Great Grandfather
- Geoffrey de Say - 4th cousins 25 times removed
- Robert de Vere - 2nd cousins 25 times removed
In Ireland
- John Maxwell 1st Baron Farnham (County Cavan Ireland) 15th cousins 4 times removed
- Somerset Henry Maxwell 10th Baron Farnham and 13th Baronet of Calderwood 19th cousins
- Robert Perceval Maxwell 19th cousins
Worldwide
- Queen Elizabeth ll of UK (House of Windsor) - 13th cousins.
- King Alfred the Great of England - direct ancestor 37 generations
- King Edward 1st England - direct ancestor 36 generations
- Charles Stewart Rolls - Founder of Rolls-Royce Motor Corporation - 10th cousins twice removed.
- Queen Bertha de France de Bois (964-1015) - direct ancestor 32 generations
- A J Jacobs - now 39 steps - I am a cousin !!
Wikitree
- Barb Clarke-Brown - First cousin once removed.
- Josephine (Boyle) Black wife of 1st cousin once removed.
- George Smith - 4th cousin
- Roberta Muir - still trying to work out which cousins we are !!
- Sir William Arbuthnot - 6th cousins 6 times removed (84 common ancestors within 25 generations !! - We are cousins again.
- Mike Pichler 7th Cousins once removed.
- Mark Curtis 13th cousins once removed
- John Vickery - 13th cousins twice removed
- Terry Wright - 14th cousins three times removed (79 common ancestors within 25 generations)
- Mary Richardson -15th cousins twice removed (88 common ancestors within 25 generations)
- Chris Whitten 16th cousins 4 times removed.
- Mags Gaulden 22 cousins once removed !!
- Henrik Ledin 22 cousins once removed.
Thoughts for today
"The best part about Genealogy is searching for ancestors and finding friends." - Lawrence Dillard
Genealogists don't die they just lose their census.
Genealogists are time unravellers
Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress.
The URL for the United Kingdom google community is:-
The URL for the Scottish Clans project google group is:-
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wikitree-scottish-clan-project
The URL for the Irish Roots google+ community is
https://plus.google.com/u/0/b/114501519056827303829/communities/118414568494929801840
The URL for the Irish Roots Project google group is :-
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wikitree-irish-roots-project
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Maria Maxwell
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- Maria's formal name
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (13)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
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Followed Tags
Maria is a Wiki Genealogy Volunteer following these tags:
Questions
Collaboration
Maria is a Wiki Genealogy Volunteer following these tags:
- BLACK
- My mother's maiden name. Her family were from Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, Scotland
- BOWIE
- My paternal grandmother's maiden name. Also Bowie's way back in my maternal line.My earliest known maternal Bowie is first located being married in Falkirk, Stirlingshire in 1620. My earliest known paternal Bowie was born around 1750 Tulliallan, Perthshire
- CATEGORIZATION
- Project member
- DICK
- Ancestors are from St Ninians, Stirlingshire, Scotland. One Name Study started 27 Apr 2017
- EARL_GREY
- Project member
- FERMANAGH
- Where my paternal Maxwell line is from
- GITM
- Leader of Genealogy in the Media Project - WDYTYA
- GROSSE_ILE
- Project Leader
- INDIA
- Project Leader
- IRISH_ROOTS
- One of the Project Leaders. My paternal Maxwell's came from Fermanagh. My maternal Black line started in Ireland c1780 - possibly Antrim. Still working on these brick walls !!
- LEADERS
- Member of WikiTree volunteer Leaders.
- MAXWELL
- My paternal Maxwell's were originally from Fermanagh, Ireland before my GGM moved to Glasgow, Scotland some time before 1875. There are also Maxwell's way back in my maternal line !!
- NEW_ZEALAND
- Project Leader.
- ONE_NAME_STUDIES
- Maxwell (in Ireland ) , Also Bowie, Dick, McKerrow and Shearer - all in Scotland.
- RANGERS
- Project member. Leader for Thursday - Thors Daisies
- SCOTLAND
- Scotland was my maternal grandmother's maiden name. Known line starts in Tulliallan, Perthshire, Scotland. Also one of the Scotland Project Leaders.
- SCOTS-IRISH
- One of the Project Leaders. Part of UK Project
- SCOTTISH_CLANS
- One of the Project Leaders
- UNITED_KINGDOM
- One of the Project Leaders.
Questions
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 15, 2018.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Sep 9, 2018.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 24, 2018.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 9, 2018.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 24, 2018.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer May 27, 2018.
Collaboration
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On 13 Sep 2018 at 21:59 GMT Geoff Thomson wrote:
Maria
Thanks for adding me to the NZ Project. I look forward to being involved in this project.
Geoff
On 30 Aug 2018 at 16:48 GMT Randy Hare wrote:
Maria,
Thanks for the primer on linking. I am correcting, didn't know the policy until now.
Randy
On 24 Aug 2018 at 12:19 GMT Randy Hare wrote:
Maria,
Re: Clan Menzies page I would be honored to sponsor the page for the project. Currently, working on some other things, but will tackle putting the information on the clan page soon.
Thanks! Randy
On 23 Aug 2018 at 21:37 GMT Dave Rutherford wrote:
Yay!
Thanks Maria for continuing to help with the Grosse Île part of our revamped Canada project!
Dave
On 20 Aug 2018 at 16:08 GMT Susie MacLeod wrote:
Hi Maria,
Greg Lavoie, Dave Rutherford and I have put a lot of work into restructuring the Canada Project. Have a look at the new project page.
You'll see that we've changed the project name to the Canada Project and the badge will be changed shortly. We've done this in order to provide lots of ways for people to contribute to Canadian Profiles. We've also moved towards a team approach with top level teams being lead by Project Coordinators and sub-teams being lead by Team Leaders.
Would you like to continue in the Canada Project, and if so, which team(s) would you like to be on?
Let me know if you have any questions. Once I hear back from you I'll add you to the Google group and get you set up in your team(s).
Susie
On 20 Aug 2018 at 12:49 GMT Sheryl McPhee wrote:
Thanks so much for adding me to the Scottish Clan. I am relatively new at this on Wikitree and am hoping to find my ancesters named McPhee/MacPhee on this group. Have a great day.
On 13 Aug 2018 at 01:22 GMT Cindi (Hutchinson) Laurent wrote:
Aye...I am just a lowly newbie, winding my way through my British roots. My last name is of Scottish heritage, from the wee isle of Sleat, Uisdean, or Macuisdein, a sept of MacDonald. I proudly wear the surname of Hutchinson. I'm doing all of this for my family. Although the name "Hutchinson" is found mainly in the Yorkshire area, my family is found in Wales and Northern Ireland (Laugharne, Lachran) on my grandmother's side. During the "great migration,"my family were Puritons. The Friends objected to slavery. My great grand-mother (a few gens) was Anne Marbury Hutchinson. Trust me, she would be wagging her finger at what is going on today.
On 5 Aug 2018 at 16:01 GMT Kylie Haese wrote:
Hi Maria,
I am glad to hear that WDYTYA project lives on! Yes I would like to join the genealogy in the media project please. I think it should prove fun. Kylie
On 1 Aug 2018 at 23:48 GMT Natalie (Durbin) Trott wrote:
Hi Maria,
Please have a look at the revamped Categorization Project page, specifically about the new team approach. Members will be now be part of the Maintenance Team. Project Liaisons and leaders will be involved in the Vision and Collaboration team. Just wanted to let you know about the changes in our project! Thanks, Natalie
On 31 Jul 2018 at 05:37 GMT Joseph Seay wrote:
Can you please add me to the Scottish clans project I have Stuarts(Stewarts) in my tree on my mothers side thank you :)
Maria is 26 degrees from SJ Baty, 28 degrees from Orville Redenbacher and 20 degrees from Victoria of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.