So, who here actually IS Scottish?

topic posted Wed, July 28, 2004 - 12:37 PM by  Unsubscribed

Apart from yours truly :)

just curious?
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    Wed, July 28, 2004 - 4:20 PM
    Highland Scot, here...
    evidently my auntie went back to the auld country and saw the ancestral home... had circumstances not messed with our past, and old Duke Murray not have a penchant for fiddlin' with the maids, I would be next in line for the Duchy...
    Here's the website for our ancestral home... isn't it gorgeous??
    www.blair-castle.co.uk/
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    Re: So, who here actually IS Scottish?

    Wed, July 28, 2004 - 5:37 PM
    hmmmmmm in the wayback machine, family came from the parrish of Kimball on the english side of Hadrian's wall after the jacobite business. . . Kimball's left the Campbell clan (thus the respelling). . . came over in 1643 to America. . . . on Dad's side.


    On Mom's side. . . both sets of her parents came over in '29 on da boat from Germany. . . thus only 2nd. generation there.
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    Wed, July 28, 2004 - 6:27 PM
    I have Scot blood in me...though my Scottish ancestors came to America in the late 1700's...so no clue which part of the island they came from. I am more german than anything, but I identify most with the Scott. Murrey clan as close as we can tell.

    J
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      Thu, July 29, 2004 - 11:04 AM
      So you're a cousin of mine?????? :)
      Only we're Murray of Atholl... is it the same with you??
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        Thu, July 29, 2004 - 11:43 AM
        So with the other tribe are we kissing cousins? :-P

        Not sure actually. The name we are going off of is Murr (and oddly, I believe that the name went back to when they crossed the pond...my maternal grandmother was the last in my direct line to have it..again..I think) and the closest clan is Murrey, though it was thought for a time we might have been Muirs too...though as I recall the Murreys and the Muirs were related, could be wrong on that though. It could also have been that they changed their name when the came to The New World in order to fit in better (as Scots and Irish were not considered "white"...they had no rights that the English born did) and if that is the case anything from when they were in Scotland is known only to history. We can track them to North Carolina, but not back to Scotland.
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    Re: So, who here actually IS Scottish?

    Wed, July 28, 2004 - 9:26 PM
    My maternal grandfather's side is where I get my Scottish lineage. William Lawson was my ancestor who was born in Montrose and fought in the battle of Culloden. He was captured by the English after battle and shipped to Virginia to work as a farmer for the English.
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      Wed, July 28, 2004 - 10:38 PM
      I'm Donald from Skye, almost half scottish since my dad is 7/8 scottish (1/8 french). I have a little Campbell from my mother's side too. I'm a 17th generation American, 7th generation California.
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        Thu, July 29, 2004 - 11:45 AM
        17th?!?!? Ladies in your family start young! :-P

        I am 8th generation American, and as you can read above my family came over in the late 1700s or so. It is great that you can track your roots back that far.

        J
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          Fri, July 30, 2004 - 1:49 AM
          I'm a mutt, but I have been slowly looking for my roots. I still need to do some more research, but I may have come from a family in the Ayreshire district in Scotland. That's about as much as I have gathered from a lifetime of attending the local Scotish Games at least. =P
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    Fri, July 30, 2004 - 11:51 AM
    100% hispanic blood her - both parents were Bolivian immigrants. But I think of myself as a Cardiac celt. You know... in my heart :o). Been obsessed with and dreaming about Scotland since I was a wee lass. Married a Munro (but use the modern spelling) when I was still in college - scottish ancestry. We split up but I try to travel to Scotland every year anyway. Been to some pretty far flung corners. I could go a hundred more times and still never get enough. Can't explain the longing for it really. For someone that makes her living as a wordsmith, its beauty is beyond words.