Lands of our Ancestors

List of ALL the surnames that would be mine & my siblings ancestors in some way, that we would have a touch of their DNA– male and female lines. Literally the ONLY one not proven is the James Agnew paternal line which I will never give up on finding, but may never find.

will keep a count here:

Scotland: /

England: //

Germany /

Ireland: //

Wales: /

Just one of my ancestors… ANDREW REID, Born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland in 1622 to General Andrew Reid and Magdalene McDowell. Andrew Reid married Elizabeth Bessie Hall and had 13 children. He passed away on 14 Oct 1718 in Ulster, Northern Ireland. His son, Alexander Reid, immigrated to Lancaster PA.

Another ancestor, JAMES WADE, b. in Gloucestershire, England, d. in Padiham, Burnley Borough, Lancashire, England. 1730-1799. His daughter, Sophia Wade, immigrated to America, Lancaster PA.

Her husband, Owen Thomas Owens, 1746 to 1809, b. Pentraeth, Anglesey, WALES. Died in Washington, KY.

William Richardson, b.1640 Cumberland, ENGLAND – d.1691 Massachusetts, 9th GGrandfather.  (Polly Richardson mother of Sarah Sallie Owen who married Thomas Reid.)

Thomas Mitchell

B:1680 Ulster, Ireland

D:14 Nov 1734 Donegal, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States

through Rebecca Mitchell who married Alexander Reid 1755-1851.

Another ancestor, Peter Smith, came from Rheinland, Germany (on western side) to Rowan County, NC, died in NC in 1769. They migrated over a couple more generations from Rowan, NC to KY, to Bedford, Indiana. Nancy Jane Smith married Alexander J. Reid, grandfather to MY grandma Mary Reid Agnew.

Agnew, Mitchell, Owens, Reid, Richardson, Smith, Wade

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