Kinship Genealogy Co.

the earle family tree

My father is, according to the Ancestry.com ethnicity estimates (as at Aug 2023):

• Scotland 23%
• England & Northwestern Europe 42%
  • Eastern South East England community
    • Kent & East Sussex – surnames Case, Field, Thomas, Maulden, Theobald, Penney, Scarnell, Pepper, Hogben
    • Kent and South East London
    • Kent
  • Central Southern England community – surnames Lloyd, Bush, Cook, Church
  • New Zealand, European & British Settlers community – surnames, Christie, Earle, Morris, Mason
    • New Zealand Tasman, Nelson & Marlborough Regions – European and British settlers – surnames, Alexander, Bush
  • Upper Midwest Settlers community (Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota & Minnesota Border Settlers) – via a branch of the Theobald family
• Norway 17%
• Sweden & Denmark 13%
• Wales 5%

His father was born in New Zealand. His mother in England. It was quite a surprise to me that he had almost a quarter Scottish, as his cultural background (in part to his mother) was decidedly English. His paternal grandmother’s family, the Christies, were from Glasgow, Lanarkshire. As I researched further back, however, his ancestors’ birthplaces included Kinross-shire and Fife.

the falkner family tree

My mother is, according to the Ancestry.com ethnicity estimates:

• England & Northwestern Europe 80%
  • Central Southern England
    • Northeastern South West England & Northwestern South East England – Salisbury, Denman, Wilton, Long, Jackson
  • East of England
    • Southern Norfolk, Suffolk and Eastern Essex – Nevill, Pallant, Lozell, Jewers
    • East Anglia – Lozell, Roper, Marshall, Pallant, Hawes
  • Devon, Dorset & Somerset
    • Eastern Devon, Somerset and Southwestern Dorset – surnames Salisbury, Hutchings, Wilton, Denman, Hann, Long, Sprackett
  • New Zealand, European & British Settlers Community – Lower North Island, European & British Settlers – Pallant, Lozell, Wilton, Johnson, Denman
• Scotland 11%
  • Scottish Highlands & the Hebrides – surnames Falkner, McLeod, Campbell, Morrison, Steven, Graham, Laing, Howison
    • Northern Hebrides & Northwestern Coast
    • Isle of Harris
  • New Zealand, European & British Settlers Community – Lower North Island, European & British Settlers – Falkner, Graham, Steven, McLeod, Morrison
• Wales 4%
• Norway 3%
• Sweden & Denmark 2%

Mum’s ethnicity wasn’t at all surprising. She hails from a well-known Wellington immigrant family with numerous offspring from the Somerset region. In addition, one of her paternal branches emigrated with the Rev. Norman McLeod from the Isle of Harris via Nova Scotia to Waipu, New Zealand.