A Maitland Genealogy - Introduction

Issue Date: 20/12/2006

These pages contain information about the main ancestral lines of my and my wife's families, the main ones of which are:

My Grandparents:

Maitland, Poole, Parkes, Lister.

My Great-Grandparents:

Chapman, Armstrong, Fryer, Palmer.

Alice Kirk-Owen's Grandparents:

Kirk-Owen (Owen), Dolman, Chadwick, Henderson.

Alice's Great-Grandparents:

Brown, Coley, Stewart, Quinn

I was born in Cairo in 1945, but resident in Great Britain all my life. My father and his family have been wanderers for many generations; we diverged from the Scottish Maitlands in the 18^th Century via Jamaica. My mother's family are from the English Midlands.

My wife's family are from Canada, her father's side emigrating before the 1st World War from the English Midlands. Her mother's side emigrated to Ontario in the middle of the 19th Century.

I have also listed the whole family on several Gedcom and family Tree maker files.

I have divided the families up into 8 sections, one for each of my and my wife's grandparents. Brief details follow, with links to pages which guide the reader to greater detail.

Descendants of John Maitland, a planter and merchant in St Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, who became planters in the west of the Island before moving to England in the mid 19^th Century. Several worked in the Far East in the late 19^th and early 20th Centuries.

Includes: Chapmans & Cleugh's (Newcastle), Carpenters (Exeter), Wrights, Arnots, Roberts of Jamaica.

John's ancestry is unknown, but he may have been the son of Richard Maitland, who had a daughter, Sarah in 1746 in Jamaica

Pooles from the USA (Chicago, New England) and Ireland. Thisinformation includes an extensive history of our branch of the Pooles and other New England families written by Herbert Armstrong Poole between 1905 and 1955.

Includes: Poole, Manchester, Ingols, Cheesman, Armstrong (Ireland), etc.

Parkes from Willenhall and the English West Midlands. They were the founding family of Josiah Parkes and Sons, manufacturers of the Union brand of door locks. The other families came mostly from Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

Listers from Willenhall and Broseley, Shropshire, England. They were originally miners in Broseley and later in Willenhall.

Includes: Bradleys, Palmers, Ropers.

Called Kirk-Owens in Ontario, they were Owens from Liverpool and North Cheshire, who emigrated to Ontario, Canada before the 1st World War, later moving to British Columbia.

Dolmans were basket-makers from Alrewas & Lichfield, Staffordshire, and latterly Wolverhampton, England.

Chadwicks from Southern Ireland, probably Cromwellian incomers From Lancashire, emigrated to Ontario, Canada in the mid 19th Century. Our line moved later to British Columbia.

Hendersons from Belfast, one of whom emigrated to Ontario, Canada in the latter half of the 19th Century.

There is a complete list of our ancestors on the following links. only direct ancestors are listed, but within the files, each ancestor has a section under which is shown a descendancy as far as has been found. The lists give name, generation and serial number, date and place of birth and links to relevant text pages.

See:

The links on the lists take the reader directly to the file containing the details of the individual concerned. As the site is split up into a number of relatively small files, it is not easy to search for non-direct line names. They can, however be found by downloading a Gedcom file if the reader has suitable software.

And for GEDCOM and other trees, see

There are a number of TIF, Gedcom and Family Tree Maker files of all known individuals (about 11000), including a large Scottish Aristocracy file. Most of these are Zipped.

There are a number of photographs in JPG format of family members.

For general information about the Clan Maitland and other links, go to their website.

This page is reserved for my children, Isabel (b 1980) and Oliver (b 1984).

If anyone has any questions or recognises any of the individuals mentioned, I shall be pleased to hear from them.

I (Antony Maitland) can be contacted by:

Telephone: (44) (0)1547 529 858

Fax: (44) (0)1547 529 826

E-mail: antony(at)antonymaitland.com subsitute @ for (at)

Address: AAA Maitland,

Lower Dolwilkin Farm

Heyope,

Knighton,

Powys. LD7 1PT.

Great Britain.

Changes:

16/7/2003: address.

4/10/2003: edited

22/3/2004: edited

26/4/2003: email address

02/12/2006: Maitland ancestry