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Hi Robert,
If you haven't already seen this genealogy page at Roots web please take a look around at this man's INDEX of names and the Sources he has cited are pretty solid and they contain nearly all of the names found in the Chisholm genealogy as well as those found in my own family tree and most all of the Other Surnames that I share partial ydna with are represented here too.
I really believe this MOODIE line to be a branch of those I belong to as it is the same one I keep crashing into in my research over and over again.
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=maclaren&id=I76122
Please note the Chisolm's/Chisholm's of Charleston line and the Anne MOODIE who married the George HOUSTOUN line too.
She was a daughter of Thomas MOODIE who married Jean McKENZIE and his family leads back to Lassodie, Fifeshire which is where everything I research seems to lead me back to (that area) as well.
Even my 5th grt. grandmother's Donald/McDonnell family name are listed here from Clan Donald.
The Houstoun's are part of Clan UISDEAN which is also a part of Clan Donald. The McQUISTON/McCuiston family that my Ydna Moody cousins married into and came to America with are a part of Clan Uisdean as well. A wonderful book done by Leona B. McQuiston in the 1930's has a tremendous amount of details on this huge family and their Scottish ties. On pg. 557 of her book she has the following info -
Dr. William C. McQUISTON (son of William) b. May 20, 1818 in South Carolina, married Nov. 2, 1848 to Mary Eleanor CHISOLM (that same spelling as Robert Trail Chisolm used), who was born Oct. 30, 1821 and d. Feb. 27, 1877. He was the last of the name to leave SC and left for TN in 1857. He was a physician known as "Dr. William C.", was an elder in Salem A. R. P. Church. The parents of his first wife were Irish, her father came to America and by his trade of weaving made money to pay for the passage of the lady who became his wife after she arrived in South Carolina. Their connections are numerous and well-to-do. Soon after the death of his first wife Dr. William C. married 2nd to Mrs. Sallie (Wylie) CHISOLM who was b. Aug. 28, 1837. Dr. Wm. C. McQuiston died July 1, 1879, his wife survived him dying Nov. 26, 1884. Children born in So. Carolina with the exception of the youngest who was born in TN.
1- Thomas CHISOLM McQUISTON b. Oct. 25, 1849 m. twice
2- Elizabeth W. b. April 4, 1852 m. Dec. 15, 1870 d. Feb. 20, 1920
3 - Rachel Eleanor b. Oct. 4, 1854 d. July 28, 1859
4- Walter Scott McQUISTON b. Feb. 8, 1857 d. Aug. 4, 1859
5- Mary Ann McQUISTON b. Feb. 12, 1864 (in Tipton Co., TN) m. Feb. 22, 1898 to James M. DICKSON they had no children and she died on Feb. 5, 1915.
It says on pg. 556 about Dr. William C. McQuiston's parents that William McQUISTON (also a son of a William) was born Dec. 20, 1787 in So. Carolina and married there to Elizabeth WHITE who was born May 15, 1786 in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, Ireland. Wm. was wounded in the War of 1812 and became cripple. In 1850 they moved to Tipton Co., TN and he died Apr. 17, 1866, his wife died June 25, 1871.
They had 8 children all born in SC.
The book says that William's father was from the Chester Co., SC area.
On page 542 and 543 of this same book it tells how William's presumed father Hugh McQUISTON b. c1731 in Co. Antrim, Ireland was the 3rd of the SC group who were believed to be brothers. The records show that a David and James McQuiston arrived in SC in 1772. If Hugh came at that time he did not petition for land (grants) though he was entitled to do so. We find in the same records The State grants of So. Carolina that William and Andrew McQUISTON recvd. [land]Grants in 1786-87.
They seem to be sons of Hugh though there is nothing but circumstantial evidence to show that William was a son.
Proof that Andrew McQuiston was a son is shown in the Deeds of Fairfield Co. [SC? I'm guessing] Vol. N. pp 160-2, when he sold his 100 acre grant to William's son Andrew. The signatures and witnesses were sworn to on the 19th of Nov. 1799. Andrew and his family left SC in 1801 for Crawford Co., PA. The Crawford Co. family says that Andrew arrived in CHARLESTON [SC] in 1794 and that his son HUGH was born 8 miles from the city in that year.
The Old Hopewell Churchyard in Chester Co., SC has an old gravestone reading - "Hugh McQUI...ston Departed this life Augt. 18th A.D. 1794 aged 63 years - Martha McQuiston departed this life August 17, A.D. 1794 aged 61 years."
Possibly they Arrived that year and the sons having come earlier; the date of their death has been confused as the date of the arrival of Andrew.
A letter from one of the descendants named Andrew J. McQuiston stated that the family were Scot-Irish and Presbyterian and settled in South Carolina. All were slave owners and being Convenanters came to the conclusion that it was wrong to traffic in souls whom God had created as free as they were themselves so they freed their slaves." He wrote further "the different branches of the name in Western PA resemble each other in looks, actions and given names."
Pg. 544 gives William McQuiston as a son of Hugh but that is still a toss-up and I don't know if Ydna has proven anything further on this to date.
This William, married Ann MURDOCK who was born in 1756 a daughter of Robin Murdock and in parenthesis it says (Mrs. RANKIN another name linked to both the McQuiston's and Moodie's).
This William died Oct. 1797 at age 45 yrs. old and Ann died June 9, 1829 at age 74. Both are buried in the Hopewell Churchyard in Chester Co., SC.
Ann Murdock McQUISTON's will dated July 3, 1829 does mention Sons named "HUGH", William and Andrew which is probably a good indication that her husband William's father was Hugh in that he is the first son named in the will traditionally naming children in order of birth age. William and Ann had 7 children and their first son was named Hugh and he was b. 1786, Wm. b. Dec. 1787 and Andrew in 1790. They also had daughters Mary, Martha, Jennet and Margaret McQuiston.
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So here again, the Genealogy is showing us a family connection/relationship to these Chisolm's of SC that my ydna is also telling me I link to in some manner.
There is a Great website done by Jim McQuiston on Clan UISDEAN that is still online (via a Google search and using the Cached pages). I think you will recognize a lot of the details contained within it too as they link back to the same core families and places that your Chisholm's and my Moodie's do.
We all seem to link back to Norway and Orkney.
Thanks again for your help and input. More Ydna testing will need to be done to Prove this more solidly, but for now I maintain that these Moodie's are no doubt a branch of the family tree I belong to.
The evidence is now just way too overwhelming to deny.
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