Maria Maxwell
Maria Maxwell
Born 1940s.
Ancestors 
Daughter of
[private father (1900s - 1970s)]
and [private mother (1900s - 2000s)]
Sister of
[private brother (1930s - 2010s)] [half], [private sister (1930s - unknown)] [half] and [private brother (1940s - unknown)]
Descendants 
Mother of
[private daughter (1970s - unknown)]
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Maxwell-1489 created 6 Oct 2012 | Last modified | Last edit: 24 Jun 2017
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Biography
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 (2 streets) 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."
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
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.
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
In Ireland
John Maxwell 1st Baron Farnham (County Cavan Ireland) 15th cousins 4 times removed John Maxwell
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.
George Smith - 4th cousin
Sir William Arbuthnot - 6th cousins 6 times removed (84 common ancestors within 25 generations !! - We are cousins again.
Mike Pichler 7th 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.
Quote of the week from WikiTree member
This could take a while.
21/12/15 - In Wikitree I seem to have found a site run by people who care about accuracy and respect.
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 google group is :-
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/wikitree-irish-roots-project
Sources
- First-hand information. Entered by Maria Maxwell
Only the Trusted List can access the following:
- Maria's formal name
- e-mail address
- exact birthdate
- birth location
- images (12)
- private siblings' names
- private children's names (1)
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Followed Tags
Maria is a Wiki Genealogy Volunteer following these tags:
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
- ENGLAND
- One of the Project Leaders - part of UK Project
- FERMANAGH
- Where my paternal Maxwell line is from
- GLOBAL_OUTREACH
- Project member
- GROSSE_ILE
- Project co-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. Can't get over 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 1881. There are also Maxwell's way back in my maternal line !!
- NEW_ZEALAND
- Project Leader.
- ONE_NAME_STUDIES
- Maxwell (in Ireland ) , Also Bowie in Scotland and Dick 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.
Collaboration
- Login to request to the join the Trusted List so that you can edit.
- Private Messages: Send a private message to Maria. (Best for comments to Maria that need to be private.)
- Public Comments: Login to post. (Best for messages to or about Maria that can be public. Limit 20 per day.)
On 24 Jun 2017 at 01:51 GMT Pamela Lloyd wrote:
Hi Maria,
Welcome to the Lloyd Name Study! I hope you will soon be able to bread down your brick wall associated with Jane Lloyd in Ireland.
Best wishes, Pamela
On 21 Jun 2017 at 08:59 GMT Leigh Warren wrote:
Gday Maria, I would like to take up your offer and join the UK Project please.
Leigh
On 15 Jun 2017 at 09:37 GMT Betty Sambrook wrote:
Many thanks Maria for your response and encouragement, hope I do it well and so happy to be part of it. Cheers
Betty
On 31 May 2017 at 10:29 GMT Keith Hathaway 7th Degree wrote:
Hi Maria, here's a fresh volunteer for you :)
https://www.wikitree.com/g2g/401045/i-would-like-to-join-the-uk-england-and-scotland-projects
Have a super day!
On 18 May 2017 at 15:13 GMT Sue Howard wrote:
Thanks for merging Euphemia Bruce! I don't have pre-1500 rights and am so happy to get it out of the way.
On 17 May 2017 at 16:23 GMT Mark Mathewson wrote:
Thank you, Maria!
On 7 May 2017 at 13:36 GMT Eric Avaritt wrote:
Thanks again, Maria! The UK Project should prove to be quite interesting in my "quest" ....
On 25 Apr 2017 at 22:22 GMT Deborah (Terry) Sutton wrote:
Thanks for your message. I was not merging profiles, I was using a duplicate profile for a new profile. I left this incomplete and finished amending the profile later.
On 22 Apr 2017 at 14:45 GMT Milind Dravid wrote:
hi Maria,
Thank you for your invitation to join the India project. One reason why relatively few Indians are on WIKITREE is because we have really close knit families. As a matter of fact, each and every relative has a distinct name, we don't have maternal uncle and paternal uncles. My moms brother is called MAMA and my Dads brother is KAKA. This is of course generic with a proper first name attached to it, it is an identity by itself. This applies to all relatives on both sides of the family. I can send you the complete listing, if you are interested. My family title DRAVID is also generic and it will be too complicated to try and explain here. But we as a family group have written down our genealogy and I can tell you this much for sure, our family has at least 11 distinct branches
On 22 Apr 2017 at 03:01 GMT Russell Lowe wrote:
Hi Maria, thanks for the invitation to join the India project but since I am from Dutch/ Portuguese descent my interest is to trace my ancestors who came to India and settled on the east coast mainly Cochin in Kerala state. But when I visited the Dutch portal everything is in Dutch and I am unable to understand it. Any help in this regard?
Maria is 27 degrees from Kevin Bacon, 26 degrees from Mel Lambert, 24 degrees from John Lejeune and 22 degrees from Queen Elizabeth II Windsor on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.