Roman Wallace, born 8 August 2023 weighing 8lb 4oz, to Kara Boyd and Grant Wallace. Young Roman was born at 11.01am in Kilmarnock Photos below of Roman with Grant and Kara. First he was a dream in our hearts.Now he’s
Belfast is one of the two semi-permanent homes of the Halliday family. Over the late 19th and early 20th century they seem to move seamlessly between Belfast and Glasgow. The connections between these cities was strong, travel by sea was
A Royal connection? Robert Howard was born on 1 Jan 1537 in Syon House, London, England and died in 1598 in Allsaints Parish, Norfolk, England. He was the son of Lord Thomas Howard (1511-1537) and Lady Margaret Douglas Princess &
Although many of the family surnames have an Irish Origin the vast majority of family members back to 1860 were born in Scotland. The map below shows the main locations as an origin for family name groups. Of course many
There are many places in Ireland that are mentioned in our family history but we have only shown the locations of the main points of origin. For Kilkie this is relatively easy as the only places where the surname are
The map below documents the location of the various family names. In addition. For most of the surnames the location is the area where they originated in our family history but for Kilkie which is an immigrant family the map
Lloyds Map. The map below shows all the historical residences of the Lloyd family in Wales from 1800-1910 but shown on a modern Google map. The location are all in Flintshire and Denbighshire. Place names in red are significant residences
Aberduna Hall is the home of Outside Lives Ltd, however, before the current property was built, there was an older house on the site, dating back to as far back as 1587 – this date having been inscribed on a
Halkyn (Welsh: Helygain[heˈləgain]; Flintshire Welsh: Lygian[ˈləgjan]) is a village and community in Flintshire, north-east Wales and situated between Pentre Halkyn, Northop and Rhosesmor. he 2011 Census. Pentre Halkyn is in the community. Halkyn is one of the ancient parishes of Flintshire, originally comprising the townships of Hendrefigillt, Lygan y Llan and Lygan y Wern. The area
Cilcain is a village and parish, near Mold in Flintshire, north-east Wales. The village has an mining history and includes a post office, a public house, a parish church, a primary school (Ysgol y Foel) and a village hall. Cilcain borders the parishes of Rhosesmor, Rhes-y-cae and Rhydymwyn and includes the village of Rhydymwyn. The Welsh placename Cilcain, which has also
The subtitle of our family site has an interesting origin. It is the title of a book written in Welsh and means “from Hendrefiggilt to Livorno”. The book (in Welsh) which is written by a Welsh art expert about the
This is the title of our family site and is a pun on one of the possible origins of the Kilkie surname. One version has the name being the Irish for Small or little. In what may be complete coincidences.
These posts show places that are important to our families. One or more branches have lived or live in these places.
This is a very long article initially written in WELSH and Italian. The very idea that a North Wales member of our family became a famous Italian painter rubbing shoulders with Modigliani and Gighlia justifies the length. Also… ChatGPT translated
Clifford Field was born in 1908 in Chalk Kent, his mother was Edith Annie Field, a domestic servant living in Castle Lane, Chalk, Kent. She left the space for a father on Cliff’s birth certificate blank. After decades of searching,
Cliff was a man of Kent and proud of it. He was too young for service in the first world war and too old for the second, although he enjoyed his role in the home guard in the second. He