My name is Raymond Emery OSBORN.  My father was Alfred Edward OSBORN and my 
mother Evelyn Elizabeth RAWKINS and this Web Site lists and links all those 
individuals located up to the present day who have been found in my paternal 
and maternal ancestry during researches over the past 20 years.

My own paternal DNA now confirms me to be most probably of Celtic origin.

My pedigree is firmly rooted in the South Hams area of Devon far back 
into the 16th century - see my OSBORN grandfather's pedigree, and other information,
displayed on my South Hams Information Web Site at 

              http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~our4bears/index.html

though my mother's HOCKING ancestors hailed from Falmouth, Cornwall and my paternal
grandmother's EMERY, WEMYSS & BORTHWICK ancestors who were all involved with the
British Army and the East Indian Railways in Bengal, India throughout the 19th and
early 20th centuries.

The EMERY line originated in the area near Plympton St Mary, Devon, the 
BORTHWICK from Midlothian, Scotland and the WEMYSS from Fifeshire, Scotland.

My mother's, paternal, RAWKINS family were located in Plymouth, Devon for the whole of
the 19th and early 20th centuries and were mainly associated with the Royal Navy and
the Royal Marines, though originally from Sedgehill in the SW corner of Wiltshire 
near Salisbury.

Both the OSBORN & RAWKINS surnames are of Norman, originally Norse, origin.  
OSBORN signified "a warrior" and RAWKINS derives from the personal name "Ralph".  But
most common surnames were adopted rather than inherited, after the 11th century.