Blogs, like my personal blog, are usually thoughts laid down through time. This blog I intend to be different. Each blog will be a topic that can be edited and added to at any time. Visitors are welcome to add comments to or correct the existing content. I intend there to be as many contributors as are willing to contribute. All entries will be tagged with the relevant family name, individual name and any historical or geographical linking titles. I hope over time descendents of our earliest ancestors, should they Google our ancestors names and find this site, correspond with me and hopefully add a blog to patch in part of the story. All entries are open to editing. If my half-siblings in time would like to add their Layson stories, even this entry can be broadened.
The photo above is my favourite from my initial effort at genealogy. It shows the children of my great-grandfather, Thomas Cuthbert Goudie, all born after his 53rd birthday, in Coromandel, New Zealand. The smallest one in the middle is my grandfather, Andrew Joseph Goudie, born when his father was 67. This really shows the generational warping of time in my branch of the family: Thomas Cuthbert himself was the youngest son of his father, born when William Goudie of Maybole was 54, with only one other older half-sibling, Andrew Goudie. My father was the youngest, born when his father was 39. My half-siblings, Hayley and Hannah, in turn were born when our father was 61. That means at its longest, from the presumed birth of William Goudie to the birth of his great-great-grandchildren is the mere matter of 223 years, averaging almost 56 years per generation!
There are remnants of the stories of how these came to be and I hope they can be recorded.
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