This website contains information from my mother's paternal side of the family in Roxburghshire (Scottish Borders) and maternal side in Aberdeenshire & Banffshire (North Scotland). Ancestors and relatives on my father's side are predominantly from the Scottish Islands of Orkney. Other members of the family migrated to Australia, New Zealand, Canada and the USA. Main ancestral surnames on my mother's side are: (2G)Davidson(74), (3G)Young(115), (4G)McQueen(89), (5G)Fairbairn(11), Watson(27), Danks(1), McRae(43), (6G)Gibson(13), Wilson(121), Baxter(1), Storie (43), Dempster(30), (7G)Hardie(1), McIntyre(1), Scott(104), Black(21), Kyle(104), McKenzie(61), Gordon(9), Gray(56), (8G)Henderson(14), Boyd(1), Ferguson(38), Porter(22), Kelman(22), Patterson (6), Gauld(1), Thain(1), Grant(16), (9G)Murray(67), Easton(7), Ragg(1), Lyon(7), Ellis(11), MacRae (15), (10G)Sluman(1), Gills(1), Bruce(79), Ogilvie(1), (11G)Shivell(1), Slimon, Venning(1), Ruddach (1), (14G)Ainsley(1), (15G)Lyle(1), (?G)Harper(26), Mitchell(33). Key ancestral surnames on my father's side are: (1G)Adamson(137), (3G)Walls(130), (4G)Fiddler(127), Garson(164), (5G)Bias(25), Stanger(262), Dunnet(309), Smith(107), (6G)Johnston(217), Heddle(170), Stickler(115), Wishart(252), Groat(140), Spence(216), (7G)Harvey(28), Mowat(176), Chalmers(35), Bews (24), Stensgair(17), Baillie(Bellie)(8), Tulloch(12), Taylor(104), Bruce(79), (8G)Yule(18), Flett (197), Sclatter(1), Stinsgarth(1), Moar(190), (9G)Tayler(1), Merriman(79), Sinclair(191), Chamber (1), Gaira(1), Paplay(1), Stensgarth(35), Donnie(1), (10G)Strathern(1), Scollay(13), Huntow(7), Sabiston(97), Moody(1), Sutherland(89), Nicoll(1), Wilson(e)(1), Lawton(1), (11G)Garner(1), Allan (67), Mirriman, Ysbuster(1), Linlay(1), Rosse(1), Captain(1), (12G)Slater(88), Whyt(1), Aim(6), Harcus(49), (14G)Seatter(329), (?G)Borwick(163), Firth(126), Leslie(250), Stout(419). My mother, was born in Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland but her Davidson ancestral home is Jedburgh, Roxburghshire, Scotland with my father being born in Stromness, Orkney, Scotland but his Adamson ancestral home is Birsay, Orkney, Scotland.