Henderson, Andrews, Rowe, Wight, Sinton, Fairbairn, Bain, Manson, McAdie and many many more

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This is the accumulated work of many researchers, all of whom I hope I have accurately acknowledged in the (abbreviated) source notes. It could take some years to complete as I seem to be finding relations quicker than I can document them.
The main family lines involved are my paternal Henderson/Davidson and maternal Andrews/Rowe relations and their connections.


		The primary places involved are: England: Somerset, Devon, Cumberland; Scotland: Caithness, the Borders, Stirling and Lanarkshire Australia: Victoria New Zealand, and of course Helensvale, Leith Valley, Dunedin (at left, not that I've included William Henderson on the site as yet!)

For assorted historical reasons, I've ended up maintaining several different versions of my family tree online.
The most complete is big brother.
It has much the same content as this one but with no banners, some additional surname pages, and is likely to be more often updated.

If you are on dialup, you may be better off viewing little sister instead, a slightly cutdown version of this site, with a different layout & "feel" (no pictures, smaller charts).

On all, as you will find, the content is more "factual" than "readable" as I am trying to show the details of the research for people to draw their own conclusions (hoping of course that you will agree with mine).
Updates and corrections are welcome.

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