Carolina Scots, An Historical and Genealogical Study of Over 100 Years of Emigration

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Out of his experience of growing up in a typical Scottish family of the upper Cape Fear Valley in Eastern North Carolina in the 1940s and ’50s, and of several years of study in Scotland in the ’60s and ’70s, Douglas Kelly has woven together the story of two cultures: Scottish Highland and Eastern Carolina. He combines colorful strands of cultural, linguistic, educational, political and religious history, with a careful genealogy of the first four or five generations of a few sixty-five different family groups, who emigrated from the Scottish Highlands and Islands to the Cape Fear Valley of North Carolina and the neighboring Pee Dee Valley of South Carolina, from 1739 to the early 1840s. North Carolina is believed to have been the largest Scottish settlement anywhere on the planet out of doors Scotland, and its emigrants have formed the backbone of large sections of both Carolinas for some 250 years. It may grow to be a classic study of one of the most original headwaters of Southern culture: Carolina Gaeldom, which sent an overflowing stream of hundreds of thousands of settlers into the Deep South and Southwest all over the 19th century, thus profoundly shaping this huge region, and playing its part in making The us what it is today. It has been hailed as the only major study so far of the early emigrations prior to the Clearances.

The story is made more real through over 100 photographs, maps and engravings from the period, chronicling the history of housing among these Scots from castles and huts in 18th century Scotland to still extant log cabins, upcountry mansions, slave quarters and old Presbyterian Churches in both N. and S. Carolina. There is also a unique appendix to Chapter III of Part I on the historic and current status of the Gaelic language in Carolina. (At one time it used to be the second one language of the Cape Fear region). Help is provided all over the genealogies on how to find more information, including rare and unpublished sources. The complete index lists more than 7,000 different names, along with place names and subject matter.

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