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Oh, I see. Thank you. I’m not sure how Sheldon and I don’t come up as a match. We have to be related in some way if we both descend from John and Eliza Goudie.
It’s still really fun for me to finally find someone connected to my Goudie line. And I learned some new things about the family. Thank you very much. It’s the line of my family that I have known the least about. Although looking at my old notes, I knew more than I thought I did. I guess it has been a long time since I did any family research.
I was thinking that my father was a Switzer, so my paternal DNA wouldn’t be Goudie either. It would be my mother’s father who would give us the Goudie DNA. I tried to get her to take a test, but she wouldn’t. I should try again.
Oh, okay. Yeah, you’d think there would be a match. We’re definitely on the same Goudie line. All of the names match up. There can’t be another John Goudie and Eliza Coombs.
I’ve been at her grave. My Mom’s cousin Neale Wells took me there. I think I may have a photo of it on my computer.
I’ve got my raw data downloaded to my computer, but when I try to attach the file it tells me it’s an invalid name.
It says User Profile 89259.
My Kit # is M247695, Kit Type V4. Maybe I haven’t uploaded my DNA profile? I’m not sure where it would tell me that.
We have to if John and Eliza are my great-grandparents and his great-great grandparents.
It’s so great to finally find someone on my own line. I was always running into Herb Goudie’s line and I knew they weren’t mine. Mine seemed to be some mysterious line that no one knew anything about.
The only reason I know anything is because I had a friend who was a genealogist and she helped me with the research.
I asked my Mom if she remembers her grandparents, John and Eliza. She said she only met them a couple of times, before the age of 7.
Unfortunately, my grandmother was very homesick for Ayr, so she was constantly going back home, dragging her children with her. So my Mom spent a few years as a toddler and then again from the age of 7 through 12 in Ayr. So she never got to know her Goudie side of the family very well.
Hi. I am on GEDMatch. I haven’t looked at it in years, but I just managed to sign in. Leslie Switzer, nickname Greyfort. (Leslie is a Celtic Name meaning she of the grey fortress, or something like that).
Thank you, Sheldon. That’s good to know. Being female, I could only get results from my maternal line. My Dad’s line is English/German/Dutch. I’ve always wanted to talk to a Goudie male who could confirm the Cree rumour. I was excited to find this forum last night when I searched for the name John Goudie.
My DNA is on 23andMe.
My Mom, Stella Teresa Goudie was born to James William Goudie and Sarah Leach, who was from Ayr, Scotland. They met when he was recovering from an illness he picked up being stationed in Egypt during the war and they met and married in Ayr.
James’ father was either John William, or William John. I just have in my notes that he went by John. That would be the same guy, so maybe it was Jock that he went by and not John. Was it Jock or Jacques? John was married to Eliza Coombs, so they are my great-grandparents.
I’m not familiar with that George Goudie, except for his name. I had a mysterious Uncle George who went missing in the 1960s. He must have been named after his Uncle George.
A few years ago, I found the obituary for the wife of my Uncle George, so I was able to talk to my Mom’s grand-nephew who lives in Australia and we finally solved the family mystery. It turns out that George was a welder who had been recruited to Australia after WWII and he died from a heart attack when he was only 43 or 44 years old.
Sorry, me again. I just found a handwritten note that I’d put into my family binder.
Lily Ann Goudie, born to John and Eliza (Coombs), 4-Jul 1881, Little Bay. Baptized 12 Apr 1890.
Louisa Goudie, born to John and Eliza 31 Jun 1888, Little Bay, baptized 20 Sep 1888.
Eliza Coombs’ parents were Robert Coombs and Rebecca Smith. Louisa Goudie died 1 Apr 1889, Little Bay.
(Vital Statistics, Volume 91. (Baptisms 1865-1891), Methodist Parish, Little Bay Islands Notre Dame Bay).
Hmm. Now she remembers and Aunt Lil (Lillian), who married William Goudie. I have a Lillian Goudie in my notes with the date of 4 Jul 1889, but I’m not sure what that relates to. She’s 95 and sometimes things get a little jumbled for her. I hope there are some leads there anyway.
Thank you very much.
I live with my mother, but unfortunately she knows very little about her family. She says it simply wasn’t mentioned much.
I’ve checked any notes that I had written down years ago while trying to research my family. I don’t know how accurate they are. My notes say that John William was actually William John, but that he went by John. He was born on 14 Dec 1859 and died 19 Feb 1908. He married Eliza Coombs, born in Round Harbour on 15 Feb 1860 and died in Grand Falls in 1956. Father was Robert Coombs. Eliza remarried to Robert Oldford. They were buried in Grand Falls.
My mother tried to remember her father’s siblings and came up with James William (my grandfather), Clara Isabel, George, Emma, Lucy Maud and Louisa.
I don’t know much at all after my Mom’s Dad’s family. But that’s what I have in my notes.
