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JOHN MCLINDEN'S GENEALOGY

Putting some leaves back on 
the family tree!

SHROPSHIRE
Turner
Lewis
Gregory
Wall
Waring
Other Names

LONDON
Ford
Glover
Page
Birch
Vango
Waring
Other Names

SCOTLAND
McLinden
McSevney
Riddick
Martin
Other Names

SUFFOLK
Halls
Cooper
Gooding
Theobald
Holland
Stow
Garrard
Holder
Archer
Major
Jacques
Norris
Lappage
Gifford
Doggett
Other Names


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It would be so easy to fill this page with just fine detail of each generation from my family history, but instead, I have just put in a few highlights (for me, even if for no-one else!) and placed my specific interests on the attached pages.

My family divides into four parts based on their known points of origin: Suffolk, London with Middlesex, Shropshire and NIScot (the Irish immigrants who settled in Southwest Scotland at the start of the 19th century).

As for most people, the biggest problem has been tracing the NIScots across the water in Ireland. With the massive destruction of the records in the 1920s, it has proven almost impossible to find them before they moved to Scotland. Indeed, in many cases I only think I know they came from Ireland because they said so in the census!

The highlights for me have always been the things which make my various ancestors more real —even if only just a little.

  •  James Vango, who wove the silk for Queen Victoria’s wedding dress and his ancestor Peter Vango working with his apprentices.


  •  Lucy Waring, master (sic!) baker, busy supplying the sacramental bread and bread for the poor to Allhallows Church London Wall in the early 1700s.


  •  Richard Doggett buying land recorded in complicated deeds of the 1520s - and his descendants who emigrated in the 1630s to America with John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts.


  •  John McSevney (see the photo above right) falling overboard and then drowning at 2 o'clock on a freezing February morning in Ballantrae Harbour in 1881.

I'm usually on Rootsweb mailing lists for:

Middlesex or London, 
Suffolk, Ayrshire, Daggett,
Shropshire, Armagh NIR 
& [Mc]Pitz/Mines

John McLinden

John McLinden's Genealogy
© 2002 John McLinden


Great-great
grandfather John McSevney


Great-great
grandfather William
Theobald



Great-great grandfather Joseph Glover


Great
grandfather
Thomas
McLinden


And still hiding
behind a
beard!

All photographs on this website are owned by John McLinden or by members of his family