Tracing Family Branches

 As it is currently school holidays here, I have had a bit more time for genealogy and have been very lucky to uncover some more information about my husbands Martin family tree.  It turns out that his Grandfather William Martin was not the only child of William Martin and his wife Caroline nee Wallace.  On the fourteenth of February 1904 in Glasgow his brother John Wallace Martin was born prematurely, without any medical attendant and sadly did not survive.  John’s death was registered by his father William Martin on the sixteenth of February 1904.  We have now added John to our family trees where he will be acknowledged and remembered from now on. Further posts on William and Caroline Martin and their son William can be found  here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here  and  here . Birth registration for John Wallace Martin. Source: Birth registration for John Wallace Martin retrieved from Scotlands Pe...

Life has been busy with house renovations, helping with the four grandchildren's home schooling and my husbands health issues of late, which has meant that this blog has been sadly neglected.  I have not been completely idle though, as I have been sorting out my family trees and chasing up DNA matches here and there. Excitingly I was recently contacted by an American distant relative of my husbands Martin line, through him seeing some of my blog posts.  This has resulted in Richard filling in some important missing pieces of the puzzle for me and has helped me to knock down a major brick wall I had with the Martin line.  I am so very grateful that he reached out, as it has led to so many new discoveries for me, which I will share in future posts. If you have read some of my former posts,  here  and here , you will know that this line has taken me on quite the journey over the last twenty seven years!  There was a family story about a connection with Ca...

 A lot of happy dancing has been happening here lately, as I have finally broken down the brick walls around my husbands grandfather William Allardice/Allardyce Martin, who it turns out should have been known as William Wallace Martin.  I have previously posted about William here , here , here , here , here , here ,  here , here , here , and here . I discovered some years ago that there was a problem with William Allardyce/Allardice Martin's personal history, in that the real William Martin born on the 16th August 1900 in Glasgow to William Alexander Martin and his wife Elizabeth nee Allardice was alive and well living in Canada long after my husbands grandfather had died in Singapore.  This information led me to two different options either William Martin was using someone else's identity or there had been a serious mix up somewhere along the way.  I am happy to now report that it seems there had indeed been a serious mix up at some point early in William'...