Dan & Judy Shiels have done a great deal of Family History research. His page has been updated to include details on the key steps in tracing the Shiels lines and tying the various branches together. Details are provided on how this all started and some key discoveries along the way.
We updated the George Edwin Shiels page to add photos and a couple of paragraphs about each of George & Betty’s children including Rosemarie, David, Dan, Patty, Bill, Gareth & Lynda.
George Shiels 1828 is a son of Thomas Shiels & Barbara Jean Cranston. We updated the page for George Shiels 1828 & Susannah Wortley to add a short paragraph on each of their 11 children. It’s interesting that in the mid 1960’s there was only one descendant with a last name of Shiels, to carry…
We added a new page for Barbara Shiels, 4th child of William James Shiels & Agnes Brown. This page includes a copy of Barbara’s Last Will & Testament that provides clarity to her close relatives and where they lived. It also shows how East Mains was transferred from Barbara to the next generation.