MISS PATRICIA M HEFNER ([email protected])
Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:07:34, -0500
OK, time to press a few hot buttons and get myself in trouble again (but
what the hell, it's politics!! :-)) Yes, the Crown got this idea of
moving a bunch of Scots into Ireland early in the seventeenth century.
But the really big time "Clearances" in Scotland occurred in the
nineteenth century when a bunch of Highlanders were forced out to make
way for more "economical" forms of agriculture. Most of these went to
Nova Scotia. I don't know for sure where the Scots who were settled in
Ireland were from--it's been said that they were from the Border country
, others say Galloway, others say.....you get the idea. The one thing
historians agree on is that these Scots were Lowlanders. Of course they
forgot about the Lowlands once they got into their second generation. A
whole bunch of my own ancestors came from the Plantation area. Some had
Scottish names (Carmichael) and some had Irish names (MacCurdy--and
that's anglicized big time.).I can't find my Irish names book that has
that spelled in the original Gaelic dammit! Which leads into another
characteristic of historians: we're forever putting books in wierd
places and can't find the damn things when we need them!! :-) So this
'"descended from whomever" stuff can turn into a great big mess awfully
fast. The important thing to keep in mind is that we are all people
equally deserving of human dignity and respect.
Pax,
Patricia
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