McWilliam(s) around the world

I can’t easily count the number of ggg or even gggg  or ggggg grandchildren who are descended from Lewis McWilliam and Anne Munro. I guess that there are probably about 70 or 80 of us alive today, and we are fairly well spread around the world. I have to say that the maternal lines seem stronger than the male – in that the women have gone on to have larger families. So many of these offspring are not named McWilliam. Around Scotland and England we have Ramsay, McDonald, Taylor, Wood, Sutherland, Thorpe, Mill, Hendry, Edward, Fraser, Bennett, Baxter, Laing, Wilcox, Nevada – and of course Chisholm and no doubt many more surnames by now. I know many of you personally and some I have never met.

We have Jill Stewart in France, Derek McWilliam and Bob Ramsay’s family in Australia (after South Africa), Jill (Fraser) Yang in Hong Kong and a fair contingent in North America.

In Canada we have Ronnie Fraser (son of William Fraser and Margaret McWilliam) and his own dynasty based in Calgary. In British Columbia we have the descendants of Robert Mair and Helen (Nellie) McWilliam, and also of Peter Ramsay (son of Peter Ramsay and Mary McWilliam).

The California line, thanks to Chal (all now with the surname McWilliams) consists of  Lucy (b. 1953), Mark (b. 1955) daughter and son of Peter, and Chalmer III (b. 1963), Glenn (b. 1964) and Stuart (b. 1966) the sons of Chalmer II – and no doubt some further offspring from these folks.

I believe that some of this family have now spread to other states, including Texas.

   

In New York, Bob McW (b. 1918) had 5 children. I don’t know their names or have birth years, but they are quite likely grandparents themselves by now.

I have no contact with any of these North American teams, but of course I would be very pleased to – particularly if they have an interest in their ancestry, and also in case they have something they can add to make this picture more complete!

And of course if I ever get to take the line firmly back from our Lewis, perhaps another two generations as seems just possible, we could have an even bigger crowd to contemplate.