This may be a silly question but........
What led people to the areas where they settled after emigration? I can understand following relatives/friends but was there any organised approach to emigration? Were there approaches from companies overseas?
Is anyone an expert in this field?
Meg
Emigration to the USA .....
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Hullo there
I can't answer your question in regard to other trades, but I do know that Scottish miners with their experience and know how were encouraged to emigrate to the States by mining companies out there. Several of my mining ancestors from Airdrie emigrated in the 1850s/1860s.
All the best
Catriona
I can't answer your question in regard to other trades, but I do know that Scottish miners with their experience and know how were encouraged to emigrate to the States by mining companies out there. Several of my mining ancestors from Airdrie emigrated in the 1850s/1860s.
All the best
Catriona
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Hi Meg
The answer(s) to your question have already filled several fascinating books. Look for titles on Emigrant Scots. almost every Scottish history book has something in it about how mobile the Scots were even back to the 1300/1400's they were mercenaries in various European countries.
People with specialised skills such as stone masons were contracted to do particular building work and shipped over to the Colonies or the States. Many chose to remain and sent for families (some didn't bother sending for the family!!!).
Canada has whole communities who travelled from the same district originally under forced, elective or assisted passage schemes.
The answer is - there is no definitive answer.
Its so interesting that you could abandon your genealogy and take up the history of migration/transhumance instead. But you won't
Russell
The answer(s) to your question have already filled several fascinating books. Look for titles on Emigrant Scots. almost every Scottish history book has something in it about how mobile the Scots were even back to the 1300/1400's they were mercenaries in various European countries.
People with specialised skills such as stone masons were contracted to do particular building work and shipped over to the Colonies or the States. Many chose to remain and sent for families (some didn't bother sending for the family!!!).
Canada has whole communities who travelled from the same district originally under forced, elective or assisted passage schemes.
The answer is - there is no definitive answer.
Its so interesting that you could abandon your genealogy and take up the history of migration/transhumance instead. But you won't
Russell
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Roan/Rowan, Hastings, Sharp, Lapraik in Ayr & Kirkcudbrightshire.
Johnston, Reside, Lyle all over the place !
McGilvray(spelt 26 different ways)
Watson, Morton, Anderson, Tawse, in Kilrenny
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