Genealogy and a few surprises.

[Dirk Skene]

..... Evaline's family are Robertson (Scottish) and Mabile (French).......

Robertson huh The Skene's are from that line.

[McFarkus]

I had the same thing happen. My Gordon's and Campbell's emigrated to County Down in Ireland from Scotland in the mid-17th century and then two Gordon brothers (whose children married) came to Virginia about 1738. I think that's where the term Scots-Irish comes from.

[macwilkin]

I had the same thing happen. My Gordon's and Campbell's emigrated to County Down in Ireland from Scotland in the mid-17th century and then two Gordon brothers (whose children married) came to Virginia about 1738. I think that's where the term Scots-Irish comes from.

That's exactly where the term Scots-Irish comes from.

T.

[michaelbeeman]

My kin went from Co. Donegal to Ontario, then into the U.P. of Michigan.

[ThreadBbdr]

I'm also from those Ulster Scots (American Scots-Irish). There's a Carnahan (maternal great grandmother) in there somewhere that settled in Kentucy in the mid 1750s. A branch of them came west - homesteading in the aftermath of the Civil War.

Lots of Scots Irish families seem to have settled in the Apalachian Mountains back when that was the western frontier of the colonies.

Cleared, deported, jumped ship, indentured, trying to esacpe famine, immigrating - whatever. Let's face it, we are a motley, hardy and thick headed bunch. And there's a huge part of North American (US/Canada) culture - from our stubborn independence to our music that you can trace back to the various branches of Celtic culture.

Let's hear it for the mutts and hybrid vigor LOL

[CelticSire]

Lots of Scots Irish families seem to have settled in the Apalachian Mountains back when that was the western frontier of the colonies.

I've heard it said from some of my older ancestors that the reason our family settled in the hills of Kentucky was that it reminded them of the Highlands from whence they came.

[macwilkin]

I've heard it said from some of my older ancestors that the reason our family settled in the hills of Kentucky was that it reminded them of the Highlands from whence they came.

Most Ulster-Scots families were of Lowland/Borderers stock, although you will find a few Highlanders in the Ulster mix...

T.

[ThreadBbdr]

Most Ulster-Scots families were of Lowland/Borderers stock, although you will find a few Highlanders in the Ulster mix...

T.

Look at the pictures that Pour1Malt posts of the area around Dumfries - which is considered "lowland", right? Some of those pictures look a LOT like the Smokies and the Ozark Mountain areas to me. That and cheap land with good natural resources and not a lot of "civilization" would probably sound awfully good.

[Cawdorian]

One of the interesting things about the Scots-Irish migration to the USA is that entire families migrated together. In many instances two or three brothers would migrate from Scotland together, many others migrated as an entire family unit. No wonder some folks call us "clannish". Their very difficult life in Scotland made them very well suited to the rigors of frontier living in the US.

Many of the Scots-Irish originally migrated to Pennsylvania and later migrated down the Great Wagon Trail to Kentucky, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia.