| Welcome to the MATHERS family tree. Though this site revolves around the MATHERS family in South Africa, the family tree goes back as far as Scotland in the 1700's, as well as the French Huguenots who settled on the southern tip of Africa, also in the early 1700's. This site has been compiled by Anthony Michael Mathers (b.1965). Anthony's parents are Jeremy Robert Mathers and Helen Joy McCreadie. Hence you will find that this site also covers the McCreadie name and family. Search through the Index of Individuals, found further down this page to find whom you are looking for. Attached to individuals you will find dates, stories and occasional photographs. Remember, you need only click on any name that is in blue and underlined. This will take you further into the web site. Details about living individuals will be marked 'private'; should you have any enquiries about these people, please feel free to e-mail me and I will gladly assist you. A few more notes on working with this web site: 1. The genealogy reports can be lengthy, once opened, use NEXT PAGE to view each generation. 2. The links are web sites that refer to the name MATHERS, or include individuals of the family, that I have come across in my travels through the web. 3. You will also find various information and connections to the 'Barclay Clan'. This is the Clan from whence the MATHERS' originate. There is much of the BARCLAY geneology within this site, especially over the period that the clan owned the estate of MATHERS> 4. Genealogy reports will often use the 'Ahnentafel' numbering system. This means that a person's parent's number will be twice as large as that person's number. In other words, if someone's number is 15, her father will be number 30 and her mother will be 31. Her child will therefore be number 7. 5. The soundex for the name MATHERS is M362. Soundex is the phonetic code used by geneologists when researching names that sound the same, but the spelling may have altered over the years. The name MATHERS originates from within that of Clan Barclay. The Barclay's of MATHERS can be traced to an immigrant Englishman, a Theobald de Berkeley. He also settled in Scotland in the 12th century and his descendant, Alexander de Berkeley, Gartly IX, who acquired the estate of MATHERS, in St. Cyrus, Kincadin, when he married Katherine Keith, sister of the Earl Marischal and became MATHERS I in 1351. Their son Alexander was the first to adopt this Barclay form of the surname. For this reason you will also find the geneological history of the Barclay clan over the period of their residence on the estate of MATHERS on this site. The origin of the Mathers' from the North-East of Scotland (Kincardine and Angus) must not be confused by the English or Irish Mathers' or Mather's, originating as an occupational surname, meaning 'mower' or 'reaper' in olde English. For a more comprehensive history, please refer to the related file below. There is always much debate about the pronounciation of the surname. It is accepted that MATHERS is pronounced as if there was a Y in it. i.e. MA(Y)THERS Please feel free to e-mail me should you have any other enquiries, or you may have some information that might assist my family research. It will be much appreciated, thank you. |
The MATHERS' and their Scottish ancestors - The Barclay Clan
Updated January 26, 2002 |
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