My family tree is constantly growing.  My father's side of the family leads out 
from the Wadwell and Duff surnames; my mother's from the Mercer and McCallum 
surnames. This site also has my husband's family which lead out from Temple and Boyd 
on the paternal side and Watson/Malpas and Dawson on the maternal side.

The Wadwell surname is very unusual and I have had a lot of help from other 
Wadwell researchers who (surprise!) are all related.  I am collecting all 
occurances of the name, so if you have Wadwells in your tree get in touch 
ASAP!  I suspect we are all related. The name seems to be most common in the 
Peterborough area and has spread out to Essex, Hull, Middlesbrough in England, 
Fife and Paisley in Scotland, the USA and Australia.  I have come accross the 
earliest Wadwells in the Kent area.

The Duff family seem to have ping ponged between Fife and Perth. Most of the 
men worked in the stone quarries so they probably moved to where the work was. 
This would be helped after 1840ish by the growth of the railways. 

The Mercer family were centred around the West Fife area until the 20th 
century.  A branch of the family moved to Perthshire where my gt grandfather 
was a gardener at Gleneagles.  My Grandfather moved to Bristol after WWII.  
There are also Mercers on the Duff side which lead back to the same set of 3xgt 
grandparents so my Mum and Dad are 4th cousins!

The McCallum family came from the West of Scotland. The first McCallum found so 
far is Malcom McCallum, drover and cattle dealer of Clifton, Tyndrum, 
Perthshire.  He was married to Margaret Fletcher who came from Argyll. Their 
son Donald McCallum married Mary Campbell in Bonhill Dunbarnton in 1844.  He 
died of cholera in Bonhill poorhouse in 1854 leaving Mary with a young family.  
Their son Dugald married Jessie Semple in Bridgeton in 1873.  The family later 
moved to first Duntocher, then Clydebank.  Many members of the family 
emigrated to Canada and I have yet to find most of them. 

 My gt grandfather Dugald McCallum married Isabella Dixon.  She was the 
daughter of William Dixon  and Mary Ann McCawley.  William Dixon was born in 
Bedlington, Morpeth, Northumberland into generations of coal miners.  He 
initially broke the mould by emigrating to US where he worked for the Pony 
Express and fought in the Civil War.  However, he eventually came back to the 
UK, married Mary and fell victim to the Stirlingshire coalmines at the age of 
48yrs.

Mary's father Henry McCawley was born in Ireland probably in Armagh, but 
possibly in Antrim.  His ancestry is still a mystery, but there are descendants 
in Lanarkshire and West Lothian in Scotland.

On my husband's side, the Temple name is fairly unusual in the Fife area and most are 
related in some way.  The Temples originally came from Leith in Edinburgh. Many of the 
original Fife Temples were blacksmiths/boilermakers/rivetters and several helped build 
the Forth Rail Bridge.  The Boyd family came from Kilsyth, Stirlingshire where they go 
back generations.  Our branch moved first to Coatbridge, then to Oakley, Fife 
following the work in the late 1800s.

The Watson family came from Perthshire originally.  The Malpas and Dawson families 
came from the area around York City.  One side of this family eventually leads back to 
the South Wales border country of Monmouthshire where most were miners.  

Enjoy having a roam around my website.  If you think you are related get in 
touch.  I have census and registration details I can let you have, or can pass 
you on to a relative who has them.