Sievewright Family Tree research resources
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Sievewright records on Ancestry
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Historical References
"SIEVEWRIGHT, SEIVEWRIGHT, SEIVWBICHT. From the occupation of sieve maker (Old English (Anglo-Saxon) sife- + wryhta). William Suffwricht witnessed an instrument of sasine in Brechin in 1512 (REB., n, p. 170), and in 1567 there is entry of a payment to Andrew Sifwricht, servitor to John Wischart of Pittarro (ER., xrx, p. 271). John Sivwright in the parish of Glass is recorded in 1716 (SCM., rv, n. 168), and George Seivwright was a member of the Huntly Company of Volunteers in 1798 (Witt, p. 19). Seifvright 1643, Siffwright 1696. There was formerly a craft of sievewrights in Edinburgh, referred to by Maitland in his History of Edinburgh, 1753, p. 317. "(The surnames of Scotland. George Fraser Black, 1866-1948)
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for the Sievewright Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sievewright 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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 Sievewright family tree.
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Miscellaneous Sievewright Databases
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