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Cumming & Browne Family History

Hi! Amongst many other things in a fairly busy life, I'm researching the family history of both myself and my wife - trying to keep track of all the various lines is quite complex but it does have the advantage of always having something else to research when one particular brick wall proves too much...

I have taken the time to give some detail of my research so far in the hope that someone will find a connection. Please get in touch if you think there may be some link!

My side of the tree

Cumming (Scotland)

From the area around Forres, Nairn & Elgin (just to the east of Inverness). Surnames: Cumming, Sutor, Mackenzie, Urquhart, More, Fraser, Mackenzie, Macdonald, Bremner

Macleod (Scotland)

From the Point district of the Isle of Lewis in the Western Isles (Ross & Cromarty). Surnames: Macleod (Swordale), Murray (Garrabost), Macdonald (Upper Bayble)

Waite (England)

Lincolnshire Surnames: Waite, Atkin, Freshney (Minting), Starmer, Loughton, Dawson, Moore, Horne, Sylvester. Norfolk Surnames: Wells (Dereham), Learner, Allan, Rix, Hawes, Meachen (Yaxham), Baxter (Hingham), Bear (Beeston)

Ashman (England)

Somerset Surnames: Ashman, Hanney, Weeks, Hibbard Staffordshire Surnames: Micklewright, Windsor, Griffiths Wiltshire Surnames: Hibberd Gloucestershire Surnames: Neale Shropshire Surnames: Rogers Leicestershire Surnames: Hallam Surrey Surnames: Woodbine Warwickshire Surnames: Hawkins, Beard

My wife's side of the tree

Browne (N. Ireland)

Armagh Surnames: Browne Tyrone Surnames: McCamley (Carnteel, Aughnacloy), Moore

Stewart (N. Ireland)

Antrim Surnames: Stewart, Marshall, Reilly Down Surnames: Skelly Herbert Stewart & Sarah Georgina Skelly also spent some time in Montreal, Canada

Jackson (England)

Oxfordshire Surnames: Jackson (Witney), Bartlett (Standlake), Cantwell (Coggs), Wiggins (Burford), Dean (Burford) Surrey Surnames: Russell (Thames Ditton) Cornwall Surnames: Bickford, Jenking, Watts (all St. Just in Roseland), Thomas (Falmouth), Polkinghorne (Constantine), Ould (Constantine) Dorset Surnames: Hill (Weymouth & Melcombe Regis), Talbot

Lyons (N. Ireland)

Londonderry Surnames: Lyons (Loughermore, Cumber Upper, Crindle), Clarke (Altahoney), McIlmoyle (Gortnessy), Curry

My website (which is not nearly as good as I wish it to be!) is http://wulliam.rootschat.net. Please pm me if you think there may be a connection or point of common interest. Kind regards, William