MacWhan Family Tree research resources
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MacWhan records on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out your MacWhan family tree. A vast range of data is available to search ranging from census records, births, deaths and marriages, military records and immigration records to name but a few. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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Historical References
"MACWHAN, MACWHDJ. Side forms of MACQUEEN, q.v., from Gaelic M'Shuibhne. The aspiration of the s causes the name to be pronounced like MacHuin. Michael Macqueen, burgess of Edinburgh and re-founder of Magdalen Chapel in the Cowgate of Edinburgh (PSAS., xxi, p. 267), appears in the Accounts of the Lord High Treasurer (v, vi) between 1516 and 1536 as Makquhen, Makquhane, McQuhenne, McQuhenn, McQuhan, Machquhan, McQuheen, Manthquhen, Maquhon, Mauchquhen, and Makquhan. Malcolm Macquhyn is in record in Bute in 1501 (LCD., p. 205), John Makquhon witnessed an instrument of sasine at Bordland of Laik, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1552 (Laing, 598), and Duncan M Quhyn was a witness in Glasgow in 1557 (Protocols). Agnes McWhan was charged with being a disorderly person in the parish of Kirkcudbright in 1685 (RFC., 3. ser. ix, p. 573), and Adam or Andrew M"Whan or M'Quhan was shot in the same year for adhering to the Covenant (Mackenzie, History of Scotland, p. 626). The inscription on his tombstone in Kells churchyard is given by Dick (p. 454). M'Quheyne 1563, M'Kquyne 1594, M"Whanne 1682, MacWhinn 1684. The name is also curtailed to WHAN and WHTN. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the MacWhan Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the MacWhan Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the MacWhan family tree.
Check out MacWhan Parish Records at Find My Past.
Look at the UK registered births, marriages and deaths for the MacWhan family name using the FreeBMD database.
Check out Genealogy Bank for MacWhan family records.
Investigate MyHeritage for MacWhan family data.
Search the LDS Database for records of the MacWhan family.
Research the MacWhan surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original MacWhan Military records.
MacWhan Genealogy Databases
Explore WikiTree for user contributed MacWhan family records. Collaboration is encouraged so that accuracy of MacWhan data can be verified or corrected by other users.
Investigate MyTrees for information on the MacWhan family and people looking to contact living MacWhan relations.
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Find your Irish MacWhan relatives on findmypast.ie
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Miscellaneous MacWhan Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on the MacWhan family. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Use the Surname Map project to look at the current distribution of the MacWhan surname in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Italy and Romania.
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