ORKNEY & LONDON ROOTS

Jim and Marion McLeod live in Kirkwall, Orkney, Scotland and have two very different interests. Jim used to grow orchids & Marion researches her family history and dabbles in photography.

JIM'S ORCHIDS - Until ill-health, Jim grew orchids all the year round in his greenhouse and, living on an island off the north coast of Scotland, where the weather is not ideal for growing orchids, this posed some difficulties. Some of Marion's photos of Jim's orchids can be seen at www.photobox.co.uk/marion.mcleod@btinternet.com

MARION'S FAMILY HISTORY - My family origins are from Orkney, Scotland and Norfolk, Suffolk, London, Surrey & Somerset, England, UK. The main family names being researched are shown below on this page and there are photographs and outlines of some of the families in the family pages. Just click the bars on the left of each page to access the start of each family's story. The complete family trees for each of these and other associated trees and photographs can be viewed at http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/c/l/Marion-A-Mcleod and photographs of various scenes of Orkney and some old photos of people [with Orkney connections but whom I have not been able to identify] can be viewed at www.photobox.co.uk/marion.mcleod@btinternet.com

I also have several other family trees connected to my families and I welcome contacts from anyone with an interest in any of the names and families or anyone who can help with information connected to them - reach me by clicking the email link at the top of the pages.

SURNAME ORIGINS IN ORKNEY, SCOTLAND

WISHART; HARCUS [Westray & Eday]; PATERSON, RENDALL & GROAT [Westray]; REDLAND; SMITH; SINCLAIR & TAIT [Orphir]; SCOTT [Eday].

OTHER NAMES, FAMILY TREES AND INFORMATION: - LAIRD & WARDS & KENNEDY; FOUBISTER; MATCHES.

SURNAME ORIGINS IN SUFFOLK, NORFOLK, LONDON, SURREY & SOMERSET, ENGLAND

BROOM[E] [Suffolk; Surrey; London]; ABEL [Suffolk, Norfolk; London]; HIGGS [Lambeth & Battersea areas of Surrey & Upton-on-Severn]; MUNDEN [Somerset; Newington & Lambeth areas of Surrey].

OTHER NAMES, FAMILY TREES AND INFORMATION: - COTMAN; RACKHAM; NEEP; PAUL; PORRET; HORTH [all Norwich & Norfolk]; LEECH/LEACH, BAKER, UPSON, CRAPNELL [Clopton & surrounds, Suffolk]; BALDRY [Clopton, Suffolk & Lambeth & Battersea, Surrey]; KING [Bungay, Suffolk]; DANIELS [Lambeth, Battersea or Surrey areas]; WISEMAN & HARRISON [both Essex].