David Moss
Honor Code SignatorySigned 12 Nov 2021 | 30,544 contributions | 1,030 thank-yous | 2,525 connections
My middle name 'Blair' has origins in Kincardineshire, going back at least nine generations. Scottish ancestral names are Watson, Adam, Hutcheon, Chalmers, Low, Booth, Stott, Lees, Webster, Davidson, Williamson, Cadenhead, etc. There is a book that includes much of my Scottish ancestry (Colin Milne's 'Fisherfolk to Torryfolk'). sources - birth and marriage certs. census
Here are a few photos -
David Moss Kuwait 1990 |
Kuwait top floor flat 1990 |
Kuwait Ras Salmiya view from flat 1990 |
Kuwait 1990 |
Baghdad 1990 |
Baghdad 1990 |
David is an engineer and works mainly in telecommunications, computing, construction and domestic heating. He also teaches science. David has recently been doing a lot of emergency and voluntary work during the Covid-19 pandemic, etc. David has a wife and two daughters. He likes many sports including scuba diving. David is a co-manager (from April 2024) of the 'United Kingdom association football managers' wikitree site [1].
lived in Kuwait in 1989-1990 |
lived in Iraq/ Kuwait in 1990 |
scuba diver |
David has completed the Scotland Tartan Trail and England Orphan Trail I and II and has started work on England Orphan Trail III (pre-1500) ,reference David's Trail Log). David is working on England Project mining disasters for Shropshire and Staffordshire. He has recently started work on a One Place Study of his own property The Old Bakery Audlem Cheshire, which dates back to at least the 17th century and the adjacent St James Church Audlem, which was built mainly in the thirteenth century. David is also an editor of the 'Poppitt' One Name Study, to whom he is related through his 'Plimmer' ancestral line. David has just started the Plimmer One Name Study page in 2024. This was his paternal great grandmother's name.
Some other subjects of historical interest include -
David has been asked what it was like in Kuwait and Iraq at the time of the invasion in early August 1990. He was just back from leave in the UK with his wife just a day before and woken up by bombs at the airport early the next day. There was lots of gunfire and a large number of Iraqi tanks in the next week or two. David was luckier than most in staying hidden for a few months from the Iraqi hostage taking and human shield strategy. He was helped by locals with rations, safe house moves, etc.
worked in Indonesia |
worked in Sweden |
worked in Finland |
worked in Germany |
worked in Eire |
visited Australia |
visited Guernsey |
visited Madeira Portugal |
visited France |
visited Bulgaria |
visited Gibraltar |
visited Italy |
visited Netherlands |
visited Spain |
visited Switzerland |
visited Malta |
visited Egypt |
visited Kenya |
visited Madeira |
visited Tanzania |
visited Israel |
visited Bahrain |
visited Singapore |
visited UAE |
Recent DNA analysis by 'livingDNA' of David Blair Moss show recent ancestry matches
In summary the DNA analysis is consistent with traditional genealogy results.
Recent DNA analysis by 'Ancestry' shows concentrations of David's DNA matches in Northeast Scotland, the Northern Isles, the Potteries, the East Midlands and Southern Ontario, where, for example, several of the siblings of his grandparents are known to have migrated. The 'Ancestry' results show the most frequent surname DNA matches to David Blair Moss have the surnames 'Adam', 'Brown', 'Wood', 'Jones' and 'Smith'. The surnames 'Adam', 'Brown' and 'Wood correspond to known ancestors. 'Jones' and 'Smith' correspond to close relatives of ancestors and are extremely common names in these locations. Other very frequent ancestral names matched are 'Blair' and 'Lees' (with relatives 'Barnes', 'Masson', 'Amthor', 'Bailey', 'Campbell', 'Cooper', 'Clark', 'Hall' and 'Anderson').
Over millenia, his maternal mtdna took a path from Kenya, Sudan, Israel, Russia, Germany, Netherlands, British Isles over thousands of years (note - the names of some of these places may have changed over this time scale).
The paternal y-dna took a path from Kenya, Kuwait, Iran, Turkmenistan, Russia, British Isles over thousands of years (note - the names of some of these places may have changed over this time scale).
David has a Viking index of 86% (ref. LivingDNA). The Viking index 'represents the amount of DNA that you share with ancient Vikings'. 'if your Viking Index is 80%, this means that your DNA is more similar to Viking DNA than 80% of all Living DNA customers'. This is not surprising as his names 'Blair' and 'Moss' are of Norse origin, reputedly. Also the city of Moss Norway is in the county and region of Viken, but the name similarity could just be coincidental.
David Blair Moss has archaic DNA matches - a 'livingDNA' Neanderthal score of 355 or 2.23% (the range 250-400 is typical for his ancestry considering geography). His Denisovan score is 96 or 0.17% (400 is considered to be the maximum score for modern humans).
The International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) Blair DNA project has evidence that the 'Blair' surname may have an identifiable single source (a Jean Francois or John Francis) from around the early 11th century at about the time of the Norman invasion of Britain. It is not clear whether Jean Francois was born in England (wikitree) , Normandy, Scotland or elsewhere. Reputably, all Blairs are descendants of John Francis.
Note - the figures are approximate frequency percentages in data. This is an approximate measurement of geographical distribution of ancestral surnames. UK indicates that the region of the British Isles, etc. is not specified.
Global distribution of surname 'Morse/Moss' based on locations of people in the test data [2].
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Germany | Wales | Slovenia |
Moss | 16 | 8 | 45 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Please also see Morse One Name Study [3].
Global distribution of surname 'Watson' based on locations of people in the test data [4].
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Other |
Watson | 10 | 10 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 15 | 5 |
Global distribution of surname 'Blair' based on locations of results in the test data [5]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Other |
Blair | 4 | 2 | 40 | 1 | 20 | 32 | 1 |
Global distribution of surname 'Williamson' based on locations of results in the test data [6]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales | Netherlands | Other |
Williamson | 10 | 6 | 50 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
Global distribution of surname 'Adam' based on locations of results in the test data [7]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales | Germany | Canada | Other |
Adam | 20 | 12 | - | 30 | 14 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 |
Global distribution of surname 'Davidson' based on locations of results in the test data [8]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Other |
Davidson | 16 | 3 | - | 7 | 16 | 50 | 6 |
Global distribution of surname 'Johnson' based on locations of results in the test data [9]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Germany | Sweden | Other |
Johnson | 20 | 10 | - | 12 | 13 | 20 | 4 | 12 | 7 |
Global distribution of surname 'Booth' based on locations of results in the test data [10]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Germany | Other |
Booth | 20 | 6 | - | 44 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
Global distribution of surname 'Thompson' based on locations of results in the test data [11]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Other |
Thompson | 18 | 10 | - | 14 | 18 | 30 | 10 |
Global distribution of surname 'Lees' based on locations of results in the test data [12]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Other |
Lees | 24 | 8 | - | 36 | 18 | 4 | 10 |
Global distribution of surname 'Low' based on locations of results in the test data [13]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Germany | Other |
Low | 17 | 12 | - | 27 | 6 | 21 | 9 | 8 |
Global distribution of surname 'Wood' based on locations of results in the test data [14]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales | Germany | Other |
Wood | 21 | 15 | - | 41 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
Global distribution of surname 'Hutcheon/Gordon' based on locations of results in the test data [15]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Germany | Other |
Hutcheon/Gordon | 8 | 5 | - | 7 | 17 | 52 | 1 | 10 |
Global distribution of surname 'Bradbury' based on locations of results in the test data [16]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Wales | Poland | Canada |
Bradbury | 12 | 12 | - | 43 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 12 |
Global distribution of surname 'Gill' based on locations of results in the test data [17]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Canada | Other |
Gill | 20 | 4 | - | 4 | 40 | 12 | 2 | 18 |
Global distribution of surname 'Brown' based on locations of results in the test data [18]
Name | US | UK | Unknown | England | Ireland | Scotland | Wales | Germany | Other |
Brown | 23 | 13 | - | 24 | 15 | 17 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
etc.
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We all did a great job this weekend, thank you. We hope you had fun. The total for the event was 88,908 profiles. The Mighty Oaks added 8,292 profiles to the tree. We appreciate your input and support for the event and look forward to working with you all again next time.
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edited by Janet (Langridge) Wild MSc RN
Thank you for your help on one of my sticky points. How would you suggest I handle the parents? It's darn near imposossible to find anything on either of them. One because we only know her first initial and the other is now a unisex name and when I tried to do a search I get results for Eliza or Elizabeth.
Oh and Alba Go Bragh Cousin!
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I am more than happy to carry on working on the Scotland Project on Aberdeenshire and Kincardineshire teams - where nearly all my Scotland ancestors and relatives are from. I probably spend about a couple of days a month on Scotland profiles on average. I think it would be useful if more Scotland information (like censuses, etc.) was on 'family search', as is the case for most of the British Isles, but I don't know if this is something that wikitree can influence. Many congratulations on your 'wonderful wikitreer' recognition. Thanks and best regards, David.
Thanks for getting back to me. I see we've got a loose connection through our various Caithness ancestors. Unfortunately WikiTree has no influence over the arrangements FamilySearch has with the various archive repositories - however members of the Scotland team have recently worked out how to get the spellings and details of Scotland locations corrected, so we're counting that as a win!
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Hi David
The Connect-a-Thon was fun, we hope you enjoyed yourself and are recovering. Thank you for helping, it is appreciated.
Our teams did really well. Our big Mighty Oaks Team came first overall, and our Little Mighty Oak Branches Team was in the top 5 on the Normalised Score. The combined score of our two teams was 11,109. A total of was 95,575 new profiles added by all during the thon.
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Mighty Oaks are World Champions then ! Can't be bad ! thanks, David
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Thanks for sharing them.
Many thanks for this. I have just added a lot more occupation stickers to the page mentioned. These are mainly sports occupations - photo images from historic postage stamps so not copyrighted generally. all the best David.
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thanks, yes I am happy with what I am working on at the moment though I am new to England projects and have just started on Shropshire & Staffordshire mining disasters which are keeping me very busy at the moment and this is likely to be the case for some time. best regards, David
Maddy
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That's great. Thanks very much. I have just started work on the Staffordshire mining disasters England project, and that is keeping me quite busy at the moment (there were lots of them - as I'm sure you know)
best regards, David
Could you please correct the spelling of Clan Paterson in your list of Clan Membership stickers? It creates an erroneous category with your profile in it and it needs to be removed.
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I believe to be my great great parents as I have in my possession birth, death, marriage certificates, etc. relating to them and their descendants. The database currently shows them as not having descendants. The persons I have found are John Greenhough b. Sheffield (1841-1914) and Hannah Bradbury (1839-1929). They had daughters, one of whom was my great grandmother (Sarah Ann Greenhough (1872-1947) She married William Hepworth Rossington (1875-1933) and they had a daughter (Gladys 1901-1975) who was my grandmother. She married Stanley Moss (1899-1982) and they had a son Michael John Moss (1932-2021). He married my mother Elma Blair Watson (1936-2017) and they had 2 sons- myself, David Blair Moss (b.1960) and my brother Nicholas John Moss (b.1962). I have 2 children, Fiona (b.2002), Rowenna (b.2003) and Nicholas also has 2 children.
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