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Maria Maxwell
Born 1940s.
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Daughter of George Maxwell
and [private mother (1900s - 2000s)]
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Mother of
[private daughter (1970s - unknown)]
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09:36: Maria Maxwell answered a question about Maria Maxwell [Thank Maria for this]
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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 it 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,
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
- Robert Burns Poet - 10th cousin 6 times removed
- Gavin Maxwell Author of Ring of Bright Water - 13th cousins
- Sir William Keith 1st Earl Marischal of Scotland 6th cousin 18 times removed.
Scottish Nobility
- Sir James Kennedy of Dunure direct ancestor 15th Great Grandfather
- William 1st Lord Crichton direct ancestor 16th Great Grandfather.
- William Douglas 1st Earl of Douglas 19th 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.
- Elissa Scotland 4th cousin
- George Morgan 4th cousin
- George Smith - 4th cousin
- Roberta Muir - still trying to work out which cousins we are !! We're 10 degrees from each other though !!
- William Jamieson 6th cousins once removed
- Sir William Arbuthnot - 6th cousins 6 times removed (84 common ancestors within 25 generations !! - We are cousins again.
- Mike Pichler 7th Cousins once removed.
- Gavin Bowie - 8th cousins 4 times 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.
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Maria Maxwell
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- Maria's formal name
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (14)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
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Genealogist-to-Genealogist (G2G) Forum posts about Maria:
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 30, 2021.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Apr 16, 2021.
- Thank you Maria Maxwell Nov 7, 2019.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Aug 4, 2019.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jul 17, 2019.
- Maria Maxwell is a Wonderful WikiTreer Jun 27, 2019.
Maria is 24 degrees from Carrie Fisher, 28 degrees from David Prowse, 28 degrees from Peter Mayhew, 23 degrees from Christopher Lee, 29 degrees from Kenny Baker, 22 degrees from Jeremy Bulloch, 34 degrees from Peter Cushing, 25 degrees from Alec Guinness, 22 degrees from Max von Sydow, 27 degrees from Sebastian Shaw, 30 degrees from Grant Imahara and 25 degrees from Anne Guglik on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.
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It’s time for a Project check-in!
Scotland Project Leaders check in with you at least once a year to see how you are doing. With the changes happening around the world, we understand that life is hectic right now.
What are you planning to work on for the Scotland Project this year? Are you happy with the team(s) you part of, or would you like to make some changes?
This time round, we’re also looking for feedback on the use of Google Group and Discord. Do you use one or both of these? If you don’t use either of them, what is the best way to ensure you receive Project communications? If you would like to join us on Google Group or Discord, let us know in your response.
https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/civil-perform-search.jsp?namefm=&namel=trodden&location=Armagh&yyfrom=&yyto=&submit=Search has 273 records for Troddens in Armagh !! I see the father of the Anne I linked with is a Peter !!
Hi Maria,
If you're not going to be engaged elsewhere, as a member of the Scotland Project, we'd love to have you join the Twisted Thistles in the upcoming Connect-a-thon the weekend of July 17 - July 20. If you'd like to join us and help to develop our ever-expanding Scottish tree, please register on the G2G post here and be sure to mention you'd like to be on the Twisted Thistles team for Scotland.
We also have our team Chat page posted here.
As you will have seen, we have been doing some restructuring in the Wales Project and are now organising ourselves into different teams. Please have a look at the new project pages, and let me know which team(s) you would like to be in.
Please can you also send me your e-mail address? I can then make sure you are introduced to your Team Leaders, are in the Google Group, and receive an invitation to join our Discord server.
Please note that it is a requirement for membership in the Wales Project that you respond to these check-ins.
Many thanks,
Susie, Wales Project Co-Leader
I'd prefer just to leave the Wales Project as I have no family connections there.
Thanks,
Maria
Ok for Fridays 2-4. Sorry - Valerie Crowley
Pippin Sheppard
WikiTrees Appreciation Team
THANK YOU for taking me on. I'll certainly do what I can to help. Since I've never done such a thing, I'll need a bunch of guidance.
Just checked my tree on MyHeritage for MAXWELLs:
https://www.myheritage.com/site-651994901/brittingham
Seems that I'm the 20th great-granddaughter of Robert Maxwell, of Carlaverock, via the Abercrombies!!!
Back in 1986, my late husband & I spent several days near where you live during our Silver Wedding Anniversary trip. We really loved Scotland & wished that we could have been there longer.
Regards -
Judy Drew-2083
KKind regards Anon
I have the following errors on my suggestion list and was hoping you could direct me on how to correct the errors on the list of profiles. 931 ProjectBox Without Project Account -Forbes-93, Forbes-554, Gordon-659, Bannerman Elsick-2 and Gordon-2864 Thanks