McGhie Family Tree

George McGhie 1802 - 1883

June McBeath 1799 - 1881

Orkney Islands

 

George McGhie 1829 - 1913 Isabella McDonald 1831 - 1914

George McGhie and Isabella McDonald immigrated to Australia

James McGhie 1872 - 1948 Catherine Knox 1878 - 1960

William McGhie 1896 - 1959 Margaret Reynardson 1896 - 1966

William Edward McGhie 1922 - 2002 Doris (Dot) Mable Layton 1918 - 2001

I have always had an interest in my family history. However I was told little by my parents and thought that tracking down my family history would be difficult and very time consuming. With both my parents now deceased and having a large number of old family photographs, the time had come to do some thing with the photographs, but I could only identify a small number of the people in the photographs. I made the decision to try out ancestry.com, so I paid the $299 and in just two days had discovered more about my family ancestry than I had ever known, most likely even more than my parents ever knew. My Father's name is McGhie and my Mother's maiden name Layton. What is shown below is the McGhie family line straight up from my Father to Grand Father to Great Grand Father etc. I have been able to go as far as, Great Great Great Great Grand Father who was born towards the end of the 1700's in the Orkney Islands. The spelling of the McGhie name varies from time to time as... McGhie McGhee McGee MakGie I have gone with the most likely spelling of McGhie. The reasons for the name change could be many, but not all ancestors may have been literate and as such may have been told by people who did not know how their name was spelt, how they thought it was spelt. Also interpretations in written documents could also be wrong from time to time.

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