http://blog.myheritage.com/2010/04/scottish-ancestry-celebrations-tartan-day/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:56:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://blog.myheritage.com/2010/04/scottish-ancestry-celebrations-tartan-day/#comment-36445 Selena Sun, 19 Aug 2012 08:29:38 +0000 http://blog.myheritage.com/2010/04/scottish-ancestry-celebrations-tartan-day/#comment-36445 The overwhelming mrijaoty of white Southerners are of North British descent. That is, their ancestors came from Northern England, Wales, and Scotland with a multitude of Scots coming by way of Northern Ireland the Scots-Irish.Brandeis history professor, David Hackett Ficsher, gives a detailed account of the diaspora from North Britain to the Southern highlands and the South in general in his fascinating book, Albion's Seed. The original planters of the Tidewater and Carolinas were indeed English Royalists driven to America by Cromwell and the Puritans following the English Civil War and the beheading Charles II. The Anglo-Celts came to America, en masse from North Britain, following the Act of Union between Scotland and England in 1707 and came in successive waves up until the Revolution. This is why many [not all!] planters and professionals [lawyers, doctors, bankers] in the South were and are Episcopalian while more [not all!] small farmers and labourers were and are Calvinists such as Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterian. The overwhelming mrijaoty of white Southerners are of North British descent. That is, their ancestors came from Northern England, Wales, and Scotland with a multitude of Scots coming by way of Northern Ireland the Scots-Irish.Brandeis history professor, David Hackett Ficsher, gives a detailed account of the diaspora from North Britain to the Southern highlands and the South in general in his fascinating book, Albion’s Seed. The original planters of the Tidewater and Carolinas were indeed English Royalists driven to America by Cromwell and the Puritans following the English Civil War and the beheading Charles II. The Anglo-Celts came to America, en masse from North Britain, following the Act of Union between Scotland and England in 1707 and came in successive waves up until the Revolution. This is why many [not all!] planters and professionals [lawyers, doctors, bankers] in the South were and are Episcopalian while more [not all!] small farmers and labourers were and are Calvinists such as Baptists, Methodists, and Presbyterian.

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]]> http://blog.myheritage.com/2010/04/scottish-ancestry-celebrations-tartan-day/#comment-15591 Anderson Warrick Wed, 01 Feb 2012 17:01:26 +0000 http://blog.myheritage.com/2010/04/scottish-ancestry-celebrations-tartan-day/#comment-15591 Thank you for your article.Really looking forward to read more. Really Great. Thank you for your article.Really looking forward to read more. Really Great.

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