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Welcome to '''Roots Unearthed'''!
Welcome to '''''Roots Unearthed'''''!


This website is dedicated to the FORREST family and related lines.
This website is dedicated to tracing and documenting the lives and details of the '''FORREST''' lines descended from [[William FORREST (c1690-c1760)|William FORREST of Overgrange]].  


The information is presented in two formats:
I started researching my '''FORREST''' line in 2007 and have met a few, but not many, fellow family historians who share the same '''FORREST''' ancestor. I have uncovered some interesting characters and have been aided greatly by the research and evidence provided to me by '''Robert Forrest''' of Seattle, USA.
:Ancestry Tree - This shows all the ancestors of a particular person
:Descendancy Tree - This shows all the descendants of a particular person (however follows the male lines)


'''William FORREST''' of Grange, or Overgrange, in West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland born circa 1690 is the earliest we can trace the '''FORREST''' line back as there is little solid evidence to go further back.


== Ancestry Trees ==
As a result, I have decided to create this website to document all the '''FORREST''' ancestors of William, and enable long lost cousins to expand and update their lines.
[[Ancestors of Joshua FORREST (2007)]]


:[[Descendants of William FORREST (c1690)|Click here for the descendancy tree of William FORREST]]


== Descendancy Trees ==
Below are some of the more interesting descendants:
[[Descendants of William FORREST (c1690)]]
:[[James FORREST (1715-Unknown)]] - a farmer known for his bad temper and the mistreating of his son.
:[[David FORREST (1723-1776)]] - a controversial Minister who wrote his own Memoirs which were published after his death in 1778.
:[[John FORREST (1761-1822)]] - a Doctor in Stirling who was a member of the ''Friends of the People''.
:[[William Hutton FORREST (1799-1879)]] - another Doctor in Stirling (who served as an apprentice to the above John FORREST).
:[[John FORREST (1804-1865)]] - an Honorary Physician to the Queen who in his youth was convicted of grave-robbing.
:[[John FORREST (1841-1910)]] - a Magistrate who once held a fete in the grounds of his house in which three people were killed by lightning.
:[[John Graham FORREST (1875-1921)]] - a Minister who suddenly became delusional and spent 11 years in an asylum before committing suicide.
:[[Charles Evelyn FORREST (1876-1915)]] - a highly decorated Army Captain who was killed in the 1st World War.


'''Meaning of the surname FORREST''': Topographic name for someone who lived in or near a royal forest, or a metonymic occupational name for a keeper or worker in one. Middle English ''forest'' was not, as today, a near-synonym of ''wood'', but referred specifically to a large area of woodland reserved by law for the purposes of hunting by the king and his nobles. The same applied to the European cognates, both Germanic and Romance. The English word is from Old French ''forest'', Late Latin ''forestis'' (''silva''). This is generally taken to be a derivative of ''foris'' ‘outside’; the reference was probably to woods lying outside a habitation. On the other hand, Middle High German ''for(e)st'' has been held to be a derivative of Old High German ''foraha'' ‘fir’, with the addition of a collective suffix.  
If you can contribute to this project, please do not hesitate to [[Special:Contact|contact me]].


[[Descendants of William RODGER (c1770)]]
Happy Browsing!


Scottish, English, North German, French, and Catalan: from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements ''hrod'' ‘renown’ +''gar'', ''ger'' ‘spear’, ‘lance’, which was introduced into England by the Normans in the form Rog(i)er. The cognate Old Norse Hróðgeirr was a reinforcing influence in Normandy.
Irish: reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac ''Ruaidhrí''.


[[Descendants of Adam HORROCKS (1665)]]


English (chiefly Lancashire): habitational name from Great or Little Horrocks in Greater Manchester, so named from the plural of the dialect term ''hurrock'' ‘heaped-up pile of loose stones or rubbish’ (of uncertain origin).
'''''Giles Forrest'''''
 
== Family Newletters ==
 
[[Singleton Family Newletters]]

Revision as of 19:31, 5 August 2010

Welcome to Roots Unearthed!

This website is dedicated to tracing and documenting the lives and details of the FORREST lines descended from William FORREST of Overgrange.

I started researching my FORREST line in 2007 and have met a few, but not many, fellow family historians who share the same FORREST ancestor. I have uncovered some interesting characters and have been aided greatly by the research and evidence provided to me by Robert Forrest of Seattle, USA.

William FORREST of Grange, or Overgrange, in West Calder, Midlothian, Scotland born circa 1690 is the earliest we can trace the FORREST line back as there is little solid evidence to go further back.

As a result, I have decided to create this website to document all the FORREST ancestors of William, and enable long lost cousins to expand and update their lines.

Click here for the descendancy tree of William FORREST

Below are some of the more interesting descendants:

James FORREST (1715-Unknown) - a farmer known for his bad temper and the mistreating of his son.
David FORREST (1723-1776) - a controversial Minister who wrote his own Memoirs which were published after his death in 1778.
John FORREST (1761-1822) - a Doctor in Stirling who was a member of the Friends of the People.
William Hutton FORREST (1799-1879) - another Doctor in Stirling (who served as an apprentice to the above John FORREST).
John FORREST (1804-1865) - an Honorary Physician to the Queen who in his youth was convicted of grave-robbing.
John FORREST (1841-1910) - a Magistrate who once held a fete in the grounds of his house in which three people were killed by lightning.
John Graham FORREST (1875-1921) - a Minister who suddenly became delusional and spent 11 years in an asylum before committing suicide.
Charles Evelyn FORREST (1876-1915) - a highly decorated Army Captain who was killed in the 1st World War.

If you can contribute to this project, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Happy Browsing!


Giles Forrest

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