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• Family History Research

Based in the West of Scotland, Catriona specializes in Scottish family history and the lives of those who lived through the industrialization of Scotland, as well as the Irish diaspora and their origins in Ireland, southern or northern.

Catriona has expert knowledge in the Scottish poor law and records, as well as the Scottish Asylum history, having carried out extensive research into 19th Scottish asylums and the lives of those impacted by pauper patient removals from the Glasgow Royal Asylum for her masters dissertation.

For her post graduate diploma in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies, Catriona researched the lives and origins of the English, Welsh and Irish immigrants to Calderbank in Lanarkshire, a company village built in the late 1840s to the house workers of a new iron company.

 

Geographic Specialities
Scotland and Ireland, as well as across the wider UK.


 

Testimonials
"Thank you for the brilliant work you did in gathering information about our ancestors. Your work made all the difference in making our trip to Scotland truly amazing. It was a fantastic experience largely because of the research you carried out. Many, many thanks." Marjorie, Michigan, USA.

"I was adopted as a baby and as I approached my 80th birthday, I decided to find out about my birth family. I had little information but Catriona quickly unearthed details of my background. I'm now in regular contact with 3 siblings which would not have been possible without Catriona's expertise. Many thanks." Ann, Ayrshire, Scotland.

"The report is brilliant.  Thank you.  Interesting to see how names were carried from generation to generation and great to finally find out where in Ireland my family came from." Carol, Lanarkshire, Scotland.

Research Time Periods

• 21st Century
• 20th Century
• 19th Century
• 18th Century

Affiliations
Director of Register of Qualified Genealogists. https://www.qualifiedgenealogists.org/

Member of the Scottish Genealogy Network, Lanarkshire Family History Society, Glasgow & West of Scotland Family History Society, The North of Ireland Family History Society, among others.

Degrees
Masters Degree (MSc) in Genealogical, Palaeographic & Heraldic Studies from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.