Lineage of the 麦 families of Taishan

Translated from the Chinese, each part followed by its Chinese original. Places in Taishan are given with their pinyin; the sources’ own words (Source text) are in Chinese.

Compiled from the sources listed at the end. Every generation and every branch gives its source, and “Source text” shows the source’s own sentences; one that gives none is marked “no source”. Where a source says generations are lost or unknown, a dashed line marks the gap; where sources disagree, both are given.

Catalog entries for genealogies of the Taishan Mai name different founding ancestors: Mai Tiezhang; Raofeng (art name Tiezhang), a man of the Sui; and Mai Bixiong, a man of the Song. A “Mai Genealogy” that takes Mai Tiezhang as founding ancestor and the “Genealogy of the Mai of Shencun”, which takes Mai Bixiong as founding ancestor, both name Mai Yingjie as the first ancestor to settle in Xinning; another Taishan “Mai Genealogy”, which takes Bixiong as founding ancestor, is cataloged as “first migrant ancestor Yingxiu, a man of the Ming.” According to the “Genealogy of the Mai of Shencun”, Yingjie was a man of the Ming who originally lived in Gubomai Village, Kaiping County, Zhaoqing Prefecture; the abridged genealogy of its Shiyan branch listed on the Gujishuku website gives the ancestral home as Shencun Village, Duhu Town, Taishan City, whereas the Yunjiapu entry gives Kaiping.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}[edit]

台山麦氏族谱的书目著录，所记始祖不一：有麦铁杖，有隋代人饶丰（号铁仗），也有宋代人麦必雄。以麦铁杖为始祖的一部《麦氏族谱》和以麦必雄为始祖的《莘村麦氏族谱》，都以麦应杰为新宁始迁祖；另一部以必雄为始祖的台山《麦氏族谱》，著录作“始迁祖应烋，明代人”。据《莘村麦氏族谱》，应杰是明代人，原居肇庆府开平县古搏麦村；古籍书库网所列该谱世彦房简谱，祖籍作台山市都斛镇莘村村，云家谱网的著录则作开平。

• First ancestor to settle in Xinning Mai Yingjie 麦应杰

Lineage chart

Each box is a stretch of the line; a name leads to its entry and sources below. Each branch ends in the villages it settled - a linked one opens its village page. Scroll sideways when the chart is wide.

The line in detail

A place with a link was matched to its village page within the same town; the others are as the sources write them. See the villages of the 麦 surname.

References[edit]

1. Catalog entry for the “Mai Genealogy” (founding ancestor Mai Tiezhang; with genealogical material on a Hong Kong branch appended), Yunjiapu website 《麦氏族谱》（始祖麦铁杖；另附香港分支家谱资料）书目著录，云家谱网
2. Catalog entry for the “Genealogy of the Mai of Shencun” (Mai Huiru; facsimile of a manuscript, records of 1955), Yunjiapu website 《莘村麦氏族谱》（麦惠如，写本影印，1955年记事）书目著录，云家谱网
3. Catalog entry for the “Genealogy of the Mai of Shencun” (compiled by Mai Huiru, based on 1955, one volume), Yunjiapu website, July 22, 2020 《莘村麦氏族谱》（麦惠如纂修，据1955年，一册）书目著录，云家谱网，2020年7月22日
4. Catalog entry for the “Mai Genealogy” (Taishan City, Jiangmen City, Guangdong; one volume), Yunjiapu website, August 22, 2020 《麦氏族谱》（广东江门市台山市，一册）书目著录，云家谱网，2020年8月22日
5. Catalog entry for the “Mai Genealogy” (compiled by Mai Shuncheng; one volume), Yunjiapu website, July 20, 2020 《麦氏族谱》（麦舜成纂修，一册）书目著录，云家谱网，2020年7月20日
6. Shandong Xiaoxinge, “71 Genealogies of Taishan City: Is Your Family on the List?”, Bilibili, October 19, 2023 (source given as the Gujishuku website) 山东小新哥：「台山市71部家谱，看看你家族是否在列？」，哔哩哔哩，2023年10月19日（资料来源注为古籍书库网）