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Surname/tag: Urquhart
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- This is a work in progress, and also, a sudden path to information overload....
- After spending every spare minute of my spare time, also at great expense, for well over five years, countless hours researching and studying every branch, and also with the help of DNA matching, I finally narrowed my field of research, while tracing my own male Urquhart line, to the Davidson line of the ancient Urquhart Family tree.
- I have found parish births and deaths with which to connect much of the rather large family of Urquhart's living in Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland, together, with what is now classed as Cluster Fan research, by connecting the witnesses to family baptisms.
- Because of the size of the family, the time period, and lack of complete BMD sources, I had to draw up a chart on a piece of cardboard 50 x 60 cms. The Headache begins !!
- Over the previous weekend, 15th December 2019, I found the births of the children of George Urquhart of Greenhill, youngest surviving cadet branch of Newhall, making a much stronger connection with the help of his family naming pattern. This, combined with the fact that John, the father of Leonard Urquhart, Writer to the Signet, (named as a cadet of Newhall in Hetty Tayler's History of the Family of Urquhart) who witnessed two baptisms of the children of William Urquhart and Isobel Crighton, made a triangle of connect, with George being witness to the baptism one of Thomas Urquhart's children, and Thomas, also being a witness to the baptism of one of John's sons. The other connect was James Urquhart, being witness to the baptism of one of Thomas's children.[1]
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- The known sons were... John, later of Newhall, Robert, William and Samuel...from the first marriage, and... Jonathon and George...from the second marriage...
- Jonathon dies young.
Baptisms
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The Urquhart Branches.
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Research Notes
- George also uses the name Roderick for one of his sons.
- Donald, John, James, Alexander, George and Robert are continuously used for the names of sons.
- There are another two dozen family members to add to complete more connections. They are also witnesses to some of the baptisms in the group above.
- All records in Resolis were destroyed in 1747 by a new incumbent.
- Alexander, skinner, sadler, died 1719, possibly another brother.
- Alexander, William and James, all skinners or fleshers, are related, as is Rodrick, glover, also Donald Urquhart, shipscarpenter who married Christian Shearer c1715, William Urquhart in kingsmiln who married Janet Leitch c 1710, John Urquhart, maltman, who married Margaret Davidson c 1690.
- Leonard Urquhart, b 1727, has been linked as a cadet of Newhall on the web, but was NOT a writer to the Signet.
- James Fraser of Castle Leathers
Email Extract
From: Craig Laurence, 14/02/2024, 1.49 pm. Urquhart DNA surname group Administrator.
Greetings David, and Joan,
Happy New Year to you both. Well, I believe I have allowed ample time for Family Tree DNA to review our latest BigY700 test results, and update our Haplogroup SNPs. There has been no change, no update, of our SNPs.
So, David, you and my cousin Frederick Urquhart still connect at R Haplogroup SNP BY166052, with a common ancestor born circa 1598. This would confirm that your ancestor, Robert Urquhart, born 1778 in Inverness, is not the brother of my ancestor Henry Urquhart, born 1773 in Inverness, and is not the son of John Urquhart and Isabel Fraser. I agree with you that Robert's parents are Donald Urquhart and Jean Fraser.
Joan, you and my cousin Frederick Urquhart still connect at R Haplogroup SNP FTD21533 (the next downstream SNP after BY166052), with a common ancestor born circa 1775.
I have been searching on Ancestry.com for living male Urquhart descendants of our Inverness Urquharts, and see if I can get them to participate in the Y-DNA testing. I will update you both, if and when I have any success.
Best regards.
Craig
Sources
- I have a very close DNA connect with a descendant of John Urquhart and also have a close DNA connect with the Clan Chief.
- ↑ Scotlands People. (2019). National Records of Scotland. Parish Baptism/Birth Registers.; [online] Available at: Search Accessed 28 Sep. 2019. Documents in the personal files of David Urquhart.
See Also:
- Cluster Genealogy, wikipedia
- The Maggot in Inverness
- Old Inverness
- Urquhart Name Study
- Urquhart of Davidston
- Jacobites Resources
- Where Is It
- Davidston Documents
Acknowledgements
- University of Strathclyde It's because of their free Genealogy course that I found out about the Cluster Fan Club. Without the Genealogy course, I wouldn't have known how to set out the information that I had, and didn't know how to use to best advantage.
- Susie MacLeod for edifying the University of Strathclyde Genealogy course.
- Becky Troth for helping me with the Tables, when I was stuck.
- GENE FORBES-HOOD, B.A. (Hist) Professional Genealogist and Photographer, now retired. for her help, patience and support with my Urquhart Research over the past five years or more.
- Hetty Tayler (1946). History of the Family of Urquhart. Aberdeen University Press.
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