Gillian Adam

Ancestors

Daughter of David Adam and [private mother (1950s - unknown)]

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Biography

Gillian Adam was born in Scotland.

Gillian Adam participated with Team Twisted Thistles during the 2023 Connect-a-Thon.

I was born in Scotland and moved to Hertfordshire as a teenager. I married in 1994 and have four wonderful children. In 2010 our family went on an adventure to live and work as international teachers. We lived in Abu Dhabi, China, Mongolia and Poland. Now I'm back in England and semi-retired and having discovered the joys of researching family history a couple of years ago, you will find me here most days building our one tree.

Research interests

Coal and Steel

My family on both sides have several generations of Scottish coal miners and two of my great grandfathers were Steelworkers. I am incredibly proud of these families and the danger they faced everyday in their work. Some were seriously injured or lost their lives in the mines or works.

Religion

It crops up everywhere in my tree. From covenanters to ministers of the established church to the Christian Brethren and the gospel halls of my youth.

Women

Wives and mothers of often very large families, dying young from complications in childbirth or mourning many lost children to diphtheria, TB or a host of other childhood illnesses. All the while working to contribute to the often meagre family income. I need to improve the biographies of the women in my lines. It's on the 2023 project agenda.

Emigration

There is barely a family that didn't see a sibling or two or three leave for America, Canada or Australia. What happened to those folks? Were their lives better? What about their descendants, who did they meet and marry in the new world? Where were they from?

Lesmahagow, Lanarkshire

When my great great grandmother Margaret Gilchrist married William Peat two lines with over 20 surnames spanning back 200 years in one small place came together. At least seven generations lived, farmed, masoned, wove, smithed, preached and fought there. There is so much work to do on these lines but a lot has been done by great local researchers and genealogists. I expect it to be endogamy central as I build out the spouses of siblings etc.

Wiki-tree

I've only been here a couple of months but I love wiki-tree. For the kind of research I want to do its great. I am not too interested in deep genealogy but I can see its great for that too. I just want to build my tree wide and make as many connections as possible. I love to come across a profile with a well written biography and hope to improve my bios over the coming months. I love connecting unconnected branches or lone profiles I find in my surnames of interest. A couple have even ended up being fairly close cousins. I do respond to messages and am interested in hearing from anyone with similar interests.

Sources

• First-hand information. Entered by Gillian Adam at registration.
• Maternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Gillian Adam and A.W, her 1st cousin 1x removed. Their most-recent common ancestors are James Wilkinson and Margaret Armstrong, the great grandparents of Gillian Adam and grandparents of A.W. Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: 1st-2nd Cousin, based on sharing 533 cM across 25 segments.
• Paternal relationship is confirmed by an autosomal AncestryDNA test match between Gillian Adam and David Adam, her father (direct ancestor). Predicted relationship from AncestryDNA: parent, based on sharing 3,486 cM across 24 segments.