Thursday, February 9, 2012

Wright family of Arbroath and Montrose in Angus, Scotland

I am currently tracking down some of my Scottish ancestry and this is just one of my many lines.  This is the line of my paternal grandfather Frank Wright who was born in Dundee in 1901 and left for Canada at the age of three with his parents and next older sister Evelyn, their oldest sister was left with their grandmother Elizabeth Duncan Rollo Robertson in Dundee, she didn't trust the family to care for her "baby".  Apparently Winifred was quite adored by her grandma.  Anyway, this line is pretty exciting, actually they all are but this intrigues me greatly.  Frank's great great grandpa was an Excise Supervisor in the late 1700's early 1800's along the coast of Arbroath, Montrose and along the coast of the Firth of Tay from Dundee to Aberdeen.  Pretty cool stuff.  I have a photo of myself standing next to his tombstone in the Arbroath Abbey and it was as tall as me and I am 5'6", so it's a big one, but a lot of them on the Abbey grounds were big and very beautiful.

So I am off to delve through the microfilm again for SIMPSON's, FORBES, HUSBAND, WISE, ANDERSONE, GOWANS, IRELAND and if I have time - I do want to check out my ROLLO, ROBERTSON, DUNCAN, AUCHTERLOINE, TAYLOR AND JAMISON group down in Fifeshire. 

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