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Post by Taildragger on Mar 16, 2021 22:25:15 GMT -5
Because my ancestors fought on the losing side of the final Scottish rebellion. With a price on their heads, they showed up in America in late 1746, soon after this fiasco took place:
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Post by larryguitar54 on Mar 17, 2021 3:23:41 GMT -5
I watched a program recently wherein a history professor made the argument there was actually a genetic predisposition towards aggression amongst the early Scotch/Irish in the Colonial Period.
Basically the people who arrived here were those who had fought and lost in conflicts over land and freedom against the British for generations.
They evolved into a sub group who were fiercely independent and quick to fight to defend their land which was perhaps futile in Britain but was an adaptive quality that worked well in the New World in the Western edge of the colonies. Those people became the core of the militia in every colony.
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Post by ninworks on Mar 17, 2021 5:23:43 GMT -5
I would have watched it but 3 commercials in 10 minutes is too much. Not going to do it.
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Post by michael on Mar 17, 2021 8:42:54 GMT -5
my mother's family arrived about that time. settled in eastern TN, migrated to MO
i was given an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas and it shows on that side of the family i'm probably a Viking... from the NE coast of Scotland, Scandinavia, Denmark, and N Germany/Netherlands, etc...
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Post by jhawkr on Mar 17, 2021 9:46:56 GMT -5
I have a little Scot blood mixed in but my immigrating ancestor came from Ipswich, England in 1632 and settled in Sandwich, Mass. The Scot blood on the paternal side most likely came in the second wave from England in the 1860’s.
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Post by gato on Mar 17, 2021 9:50:45 GMT -5
Is that some Ipswich peeking out from under your kilt, Laddie?
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 17, 2021 11:44:57 GMT -5
my mother's family arrived about that time. settled in eastern TN, migrated to MO i was given an Ancestry DNA kit for Christmas and it shows on that side of the family i'm probably a Viking... from the NE coast of Scotland, Scandinavia, Denmark, and N Germany/Netherlands, etc... My ancestors (maternal side) came from the western Highlands, where the Vikings settled and interbred with the locals. There's also Scots blood on my father's side, as well as Danish, but that part of the family, who worked as sailmakers, came to the USA during the 19th century from the island of Heligoland. That island had been under British control, having been ceded by Denmark as a prize from the Napoleonic Wars. The Brits basically left the locals alone, but when they ceded control to the Germans late during the 19th century, it must've been a different story, because that's when my peeps departed.
The socio-political organization of the Highlands of Scotland was pretty much an anachronism by 1746, operating under what was pretty much the last gasp of feudalism in Europe/the British Isles.
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Post by Larry Madsen on Mar 17, 2021 14:02:03 GMT -5
Lines of my family have been born in (what is now) the USA for 400 Years. The first one I have documentation of was born in Hartford Connecticut in 1600. Several others between then and 1660. Obviously their parents had come here prior to that. Those all on my maternal side and all from England.
On my father's side they arrived from Denmark and Sweden sometime between 1840 and 1880. The ones born here (in 1880 & 1881) were born and are buried in the same small town I grew up in, Monroe Utah.
The farthest back I can document are grandXXX parents both born in York England. Sir Henry Boynton born in 1311 and Elizabeth Merrifield (daughter of Sir John Merrifield) born in 1315.
I have no birth or death info on Sir John Merrifield or Sir Thomas Boynton (Father of Henry) though both would be born in the 1200s. I'm sure the only reason this line can be traced back this far is the Knighthood. I doubt many commoners back in 1300 tracked ancestry in any official or permanent way.
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Post by tahitijack on Mar 19, 2021 13:58:37 GMT -5
Nicely covered in the books and later TV series..."Outlander".
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Post by Taildragger on Mar 19, 2021 15:07:07 GMT -5
John Prebble wrote a detailed book called "Culloden" and a companion book called "The Highland Clearances" about the systematic, forced depopulation of the Highlands by the English and their minions that followed the Jacobite's defeat. Both non-fiction.
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 19, 2021 15:38:48 GMT -5
1st gen American here. Both of my parents were born in Poland yet neither of their birth places remain there. (Now Lithuania and Ukraine). My dad lived in Poland and Germany before coming to the US, my mom lived in Poland, Siberia (as a political prisoner), Uzbekistan/Persia (war orphan), Lebanon, England, US.
I suppose its all a simple twist of fate that I exist at all, let alone born is USA.
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