Irish and Scots-Irish ancestry

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Permalink Reply by Alan Martin Long on July 13, 2009 at 7:45am

Hi Anne; Or as you would be called in Ireland Nancy. I would nearly say that all the Migration was from ireland to Scotland.
During the Famine years the mains ships to leave Ireland , Left from Cork ( Queenstown) Or Dublin. So that ment a lot of people from the North of Ireland could not travel , so they took the easy journey which was to Scotland.

Scotland is full of Irish decendants who came over during the Famine times and after.

Regards Alan.

Permalink Reply by Anne Shankland on July 13, 2009 at 1:04pm

Hmmm - not proven yet! The famine years were - if I remember rightly - the middle of the 19th century, 1846 or thereabouts. I've got Scots and Irish intermingling over a century before this!
I tend to think that the migration was largely from Scotland to Ireland because wherever their religion is mentioned they come in as Presbyterian . . .
I like the name Nancy, though!

Permalink Reply by Glenn Roy Browne on August 11, 2009 at 9:11am

I own a book called the Scotch-Irish, author James G. Leyburn, put out by the University of North Carolina Press, USBN #080784259-1. I bought in in 1998 but it was printed in 1962. It indicates that in Northern Ireland the Irish were pushed out and Scottish immigrants poured in. It was an act carried out by the British Government to populate Northern Ireland. May I suggest you obtain a copy and it will help you understand better just why so many Irish in Northern Ireland have Scotch ancestors including my father Thomas C. Brown(e) from Belfast, Ireland. I am still trying to find his Scotch connections which are confirmed by their Presbyterian background. This can be a very confusing subject with strong feelings intertwined
The above is not to deny that during the famine, some Irish fled to Scotland.