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Posted: 8/25/2013 10:03:58 AM EDT
There is a thread about whether people consider themselves English, and a lot of people said they were Scots-Irish.
This is a pretty ignored/unknown demographic, but it would probably be a majority here. So sound off if you are Scots-Irish in this poll |
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Scots-Irish here, but I have been known to bubble in other and write Appalachain American on demographics forms.
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Yep and on both sides of my family.
Plus Welsh, English, and regular Irish. As well as two different Native American tribes for a little seasoning. |
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I guess I have the Scottish part covered. Apparently one of mine was part of the Jacobite Rebellion of 1715. He had his choice at trial in London: Death, or, Banished to the colony. He was not an indentured servant though. Once he hit the ground running he was a free dude and not long afterwards, he and his sons owned a few plantations. *List of rebel prisoners imported by Capt Edwd Trafford, in the Elizabeth & Anne from Liverpole, Liverpool, England to Yorktown, Virginia 14 January 1716: Silvester Prophet |
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Quoted: What on earth is a Scots-Irish? Quoted: Scots-Irish here, but I have been known to bubble in other and write Appalachain American on demographics forms. Poor Scots who moved into Ulster to tame it with incentives by the British crown. They found better prospects in the wilderness of the Appalachian mountains of America and moved there. The cheapest and most dangerous areas, because of the Indians. So they are Protestant, generally poor, but very independent and like to fight. Country music and bluegrass music came from them, but they kept old English things like square dancing and some folk songs. |
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Yep and on both sides of my family. Plus Welsh, English, and regular Irish. As well as two different Native American tribes for a little seasoning. View Quote This. Most Americans of European lineage from the 17-19th centuries that I know have been interbred to the point of not really having a defined ancestral heritage anymore. Sure my mother's side was mostly poor Irish immigrant farmer/share croppers, and my fathers side was mostly English/Scots-Irish entrepreneurs; however, there are so many bits of Native American and every other northern European thrown in there that its muddy beyond recognition now. |
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Scottish. Family history indicates our family was forced from Scotland by King James to Ireland for a lil bit untill they returned back to Scotland. But if you really wanted to get technical my Scottish relatives were probably of Norman descent said to arrive around 870 AD.
Edit: Seen it mentioned in the thread so I will add my mother was Cherokee. |
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My last name is Sims, a derivative of Symes and is Irish via Scotland and England. Not much connection and my family always identified more with their German-Swiss ancestry. It's interesting to know where I come from, but it's not who I am.
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My Grandfather was born in Dalton, GA. and my Grandmother talked of having relatives that owned Slaves. So I thought we fought for the South, but as I was researching my family tree I found out that we came from a part of Tennesse that was heavily settled by Scots Irish. My Last name is like Smith and Jones in Scotland and Ireland so I'm going with Scot Irish.
By the way we fought for the North because the people in that part of Tenn did not believe in Slavery do to the fact that the Scots Irish have been forced into Slavery through out thier generations. |
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Scots-Irish, Scottish, English, "Regular" Irish, and German, roughly in that order.
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You might know them as Ulster Scots. They are Ulster Scots who migrated to America. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What on earth is a Scots-Irish? They are Ulster Scots who migrated to America. Aah, you mean dirty Prod bastards |
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I have heard my name is very popular in Ulster and Leinster (sp?) View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What on earth is a Scots-Irish? They are Ulster Scots who migrated to America. Aah, you mean dirty Prod bastards Sorry but I've never heard of the Honorabledogs |
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My friend who lives in Dublin (who moved there from Anchorage and was a friend for years) visited Belfast, and he said he saw guys who resembled me everywhere. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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What on earth is a Scots-Irish? They are Ulster Scots who migrated to America. Aah, you mean dirty Prod bastards Yeah. It's funny but in Belfast you can tell peoples religion by how they look or talk |
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Like most people of western North Carolina who had family here before the Recent Unpleasantness, I am Scots-Irish.
I would heartily recommend reading and the watching Senator Jim Webb's "Born Fighting." One day someone asked why America doesn't have a Scots-Irish month or holiday. I replied that we did. It's called the Forth of July. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Great-Granpa William came from the Aberdeen area of Scotland in the late 18 hundreds. Probably some Norseman and Saxon mixed in there somewhere.
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Quoted: What on earth is a Scots-Irish? Quoted: Scots-Irish here, but I have been known to bubble in other and write Appalachain American on demographics forms. In other words, you would call the Scots-Irish simply residents of Northern Ireland. We in America call them hillbillies, red necks and occasionally moonshiners. Some attempts are made to communicate with American Scots-Irish, but it is difficult since they don't speak real English and don't know how to write. |
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50% Irish Irish, My Mom is Irish, family from Cork. ,rest is European mutt
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My ancestors raped, pillaged and subjugated your ancestors. View Quote If you are talking about the Vikings doing such to the habitants of Scotland you are wrong. They came to Scotland and stayed to become what eventually would found America. A member of my family traced us from North Carolina, to County Antrim in Northern Ireland, to Kirkwall in Orkney, Scotland. From there, the only logical leap is back to Scandinavia. Every man in a direct line to me for 7 generations was within an inch or two of 6 feet tall, born with blonde hair that eventually turned brown, and had blue eyes. The only people left in Scandinavia after the 15 th Century were the pussies too afraid to sail west. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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English, scots & Irish with a sprinkle of Norman....The big blond Viking kind of Norman.
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If you are talking about the Vikings doing such to the habitants of Scotland you are wrong. They came to Scotland and stayed to become what eventually would found America. A member of my family traced us from North Carolina, to County Antrim in Northern Ireland, to Kirkwall in Orkney, Scotland. From there, the only logical leap is back to Scandinavia. Every man in a direct line to me for 7 generations was within an inch or two of 6 feet tall, born with blonde hair that eventually turned brown, and had blue eyes. The only people left in Scandinavia after the 15 th Century were the pussies too afraid to sail west. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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My ancestors raped, pillaged and subjugated your ancestors. If you are talking about the Vikings doing such to the habitants of Scotland you are wrong. They came to Scotland and stayed to become what eventually would found America. A member of my family traced us from North Carolina, to County Antrim in Northern Ireland, to Kirkwall in Orkney, Scotland. From there, the only logical leap is back to Scandinavia. Every man in a direct line to me for 7 generations was within an inch or two of 6 feet tall, born with blonde hair that eventually turned brown, and had blue eyes. The only people left in Scandinavia after the 15 th Century were the pussies too afraid to sail west. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Indeed. |
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While in Scotland, I was discussing my heritage and one of the Scottish lasses laughed and corrected me with "You're not any of those things - you're fucking American." So, I guess that's what I am. |
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Manx/ Irish
My Grandfathers father and mother are from the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea |
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American here, if people want to call themselves scottish they better be from scotland.
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Ancestors were granted title and land in Ireland as an incentive by the English to leave Scotland in or about 1750. Historical documents point to them being Border Reivers.
A few stayed in Ireland, and their ancestors remain to this day. My offshoot of the family left Ireland in the very early 1800s, founded a plantation near Charlestown SC and another in Greene County, AL. They then spread to Texas (still Mexico then) in the late 1820s, and were granted land there. |
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On my mothers side, moonshining, alcoholism, banned tartans and violent behavior abound.
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As well as two different Native American tribes for a
little seasoning. View Quote Pawnee and Cree on one of the Branches of my Family tree, I am in touch with my family in Scotland, my Dad was born there..Read in a book that my family spread their seed all over the Earth,.....it is true |
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