MY FRAME FAMILY
From Lanarkshire Scotland to Weston NSW Australia
Welcome!
My name is Julie Frame Falk and I am an Australian descendant of a Scottish Frame family from Lanarkshire. I suspect most of us, at some time in our lives, feel a degree of curiosity about our ancestry. Mine seriously began as a young adult but looking back, I was always besotted by bagpipes and tartan even as a child when I knew nothing of my ancestry. That may have been a sign of what was to come! By the time I was middle-aged, there came a tug from beyond that could not be ignored. This became a deep-rooted hunger to know more about our ancestors, where they lived, and how they spent their everyday lives.
Of all of my ancestral lines, it is my Frame ancestry that has consumed most of my time. It is my birth name, after all. Our Frame lineage is traced back to c.1675 in Dalserf parish, Lanarkshire. I loved that I had a Scottish heritage, but I also wanted to know more of our history and who we were prior to the centuries of our known family in Scotland.
This curiosity about the wider Frame clan became akin to a rampant obsession; those vast eons of oblivion always beckoned to me. Who were we before we had surnames? Where and how did the surname Frame originate? Were other Frame families throughout the world related to mine? And so my list went on...and on! Consequently, I realised that if I expected answers to at least some of my questions, I had no option other than to add genetics to my genealogy research and follow the journey of my Frame family's Y-chromosome. The Y-chromosome is passed down from father to son through the generations with little or no change, and since surnames are similarly inherited in our society, testing the Y-chromosome can be useful for surname studies. Marker mutations do occur from time to time and these are also useful when making comparisons with other testers for genealogy purposes. If you are a Frame male and would like to join the Frame DNA Project to see if you are related to any Frames already in the Project, please click HERE. I personally recommend the Big Y-700 so that you receive your terminal (youngest) SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism) with your results and can thus be subgrouped with your nearest relatives within the Frame DNA Project instead of waiting to upgrade later. That should help focus your paper trail research.
Further FRAME research information is at my website:
Having spent the past couple of decades on general Frame research it now seems the right time to again focus on my own branch of the Frame family and share some of what I know of our story. With the years passing so rapidly, one never knows when opportunity will be lost. Conserving family stories, or even just an anecdote or two, is every bit as important to me as finding my ancestors' names and dates in parish registers. It matters not whether their lives were humble or heroic; what matters is that they were my flesh and blood and if I can help their memory to linger on awhile then I will be content. Like most genealogists, I have online family trees, but this website is meant to be more of a direct line family memoir. I've gathered many snippets from family members over the years, simply by talking to them, taking notes or tape recordings, and also just by jotting down my own memories. This website must, of necessity, be kept simple. There will be no hi-tech 'bells and whistles'! I will also keep our line of descent narrow so that the task does not become overwhelming. Whilst this is very much a personal project, unless they specifically request that I include them, details of our youngest generations will be omitted or their information minimised to protect their privacy. Needless to say, a website is easier to update than books, so for as long as I am able, corrections and updates can be arranged by contacting me via the link on my name above.
Before going further, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to my aunt, Kathleen Dawn Frame O'Connor, who had already compiled an extensive genealogy of our Australian Frame family by the time I was bitten by the genealogy bug, and also my brother, Carl Frame, who did not hesitate when I asked for his DNA sample. He thus became the first Frame male to test in the Frame DNA Project. I really appreciate their trust and contributions!
These links are to my Frame family's 'journey' from Dalserf, Lanarkshire to Weston NSW:
DALSERF LNK / HAMILTON LNK / THE VOYAGE / GREAT GRANDFATHER IN WESTON
The following pages are my father's family and his siblings in Weston NSW:
EDWARD JOHN FRAME / ANDREW JAMES 'MICK' FRAME OAM / MY FATHER AND OUR FAMILY EDWARD JOHN 'COOGAN' FRAME OAM / DULCIE MAY FRAME ARTHUR WILLIAM FRAME / ALEXANDER DONALD FRAME / KATHLEEN DAWN FRAME
The tiny village of Dalserf in Lanarkshire is where we first find our Frame family in the records. There were Frames already mentioned in Dalserf Wills and Testaments from the 1500s but unfortunately, despite many explorations and hypotheses, linking to them seems impossible for us. The Old Parochial Registers (OPRs) in Dalserf do not begin until 1738. The earliest Frame that I feel confident connecting to was John Frame who was likely born about 1675. Naturally, with some early ancestors there are not perfect paper records; however, I will explain my reasons for making the connections as we move forward.