The Appalachians: The Scotch-Irish / Scots-Irish 

I realized we were likely Ulster Scots. Here we are referred to as Scots Irish which in a way, I guess, is like African American. We are most likely of Scot’s ancestry but from Ireland (though perhaps there was some Irish intermarriage from the time we dipped our toes in Ireland and then came here likely a bit before the Revolutionary War). My surname is Moore and I have tried to figure out definitively whether that is Scots or Irish or both and how one tells. Perhaps you know? Also, in the hollow in Virginia where my Dad was from, there were people named: Cox, Blackwell and Holley. Some of those names sound English to me. You wrote six months ago so you may not get this which is fine. I have been to Ireland - but not Northern - though my brother and daughter have made it there on separate trips. It is beautiful as was Scotland. Best.

Hello, yes we have good friends here in belfast with the surname moore, thanks for the reply, some of the names you mentioned do come from here and england also, our actual ancestry is scotch, irish and a touch of viking from a thousand years ago, good luck and God bless

Greetings from Maryland. I am on a journey of rediscovering my roots. Started this in my late 60s, but better late than never, eh?

Good luck on your search

@@northernirishviking7283 Thank you!

Thanks BLACK. That'd be me. Father's side was 100% Irish, came to USA in 1784 from Armagh, Northern Ireland, settled in Georgia. Mother's side was Bri'ish, and she was about 1/2 French/Acadian. I had DNA test done last year. I'm Irish, 30% Scandinavian (I reckon them pillaging, raping Vikings got around, eh?), 20% French. My Grandparents talked like old fashioned Irishmen.

Thank you Hamilton is my maiden name your welcome her greetings from the south USA

You'd be the first to be so welcoming from across the pond! I've joined quite a few Irish, Scottish, and Welsh genealogy groups. Needless to say, they're not so friendly. Thank you 💕

@@takayama1638 These people aren't Irish! - hence their hatred for all things Irish! They maintained that the Irish were nothing to do with the Scots! - DNA (as in your case!) has proved them wrong.

Maury

I'm a Ballentine and live in East Tennessee. My umpteenth great grandfather Dougal arrived in North Carolina in the 1730s. He was Scots Irish. My grandmother was a MacPherson, her father was a Stuart, so the Scottish and Scots Irish side on my father's side is about as solid as it gets. My Mother was a Jones bring in the Welsh. I remember a college professor commenting on my stubbornness and sometimes quick temper. He asked about my family background, and I told him Scots Irish and Welsh. He laughed and said as long as I didn't start a war I was beating the odds! Lol

Pennsylvania ridge runner here. Scots-Irish,Mohawk, Welsh,English, little bit French& Dutch. Heinz 57 variety as my grandfather would say. Allegheny mtns. Warren, Pa area. Beautiful there.

Exactly my heritage

Last name Groves maybe????

I'm Douglas Buchanan from Glasgow. We might be cousins haha. Have a great New year across the pond

You have to ask yourself WHY these people are so poor. They're poor because they have been subjugated and ripped off by the American Capitalist Class. The New York bankers sent salesmen to the mountains in the 1870s and 1880s in order to get these people to sign over the timber rights and the mineral rights of their land. When coal was discovered, the capitalists moved in and evicted a countless number of families from their land, pushed them into coal camps, and made them work like slaves, in the mines, where tens of thousands of them lost their lives. The miners rose up many times and were gunned down by the coal companies. This all came to a height in 1921 at the Battle of Blair Mountain, when the "Redneck Army" surrounded Baldwin Feltz gun thugs, and were on the verge of crushing them when the US Government sent in the Army to protect the coal companies and the private security agencies.

@Scot60 Lol my great grandmas last name was Buchanan. Who knows, we might be distantly related

This is a very touching paragraph about your family history. I too had a coal miner heritage from this same region. It's an amazing and NOT forgotten history that paved the way for many more generations of German-Scot/Irish peoples.

They skipped WV in the intro

Yes.

Eirenach and Albanach are brothers.

But it is true that the "Scots" like their scotch, like the French, like they're French toast.

My Glasgow born grandmother, (born in 1880) and arrived in the USA in the very early 1900's, always used the term "Scotch" to describe herself and blamed English snobbery for insisting upon forcing people to use "Scot" or "Scottish" . She made her own children follow that tradition. Of course, she did the same to her grandchildren. Now, in order to be politically correct, I tend to use the pinkies up English infulenced terms , but always remember what my wonderful grandmother taught me was the "correct" word. Traditions certainly are fascinating!

"Influenced", sorry for the typo!

beutiful country and warm people you would be welcome linda in scotland

@@jameswilson3991 Thank you! God bless you!

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Yes! Scots-Irish, English and Dakota Indian here. Also a little French. My Scots-Irish Grandpa was the one with a twinkle in his eye.

A lot of us ended up mixing with Cherokee. My family settled right on the border of Cherokee country... got along well. Was a shame when Georgia was taken from them.

not as forgotten as the natives americans forced out of those lands

@@boohoo54 some married....My grandmother was a half-breed....she was a pretty woman.

My family started there, kept moving south...and then west from Georgia to Texas...

We in Ulster certainly don't forget. We're proud of how our ancestors helped build the greatest nation to ever exist. The Irish Catholic culture dominates both jurisdictions on the island with Ulster-Scots being pushed to one side. Just remember when you celebrate St Patrick's Day, the Irish population in the Irish Republic, Northern Ireland, and North America don't recognise YOU or your heritage. There's almost a fascist, irredentist undertone to it.

@@boohoo54 Thank you = Kenah in Powhatan

I think there is. I was born in the north (US), but drawn to the Highlands and the Appalachians.

That because the Appalachian mountain range is the same is as Scottish highland mountains

@@blue_boy244 Exactly. The Appalachians were once part of the Central Pangean Mountains. After the breakup of Pangea, the CPM became the Appalachians, the Scottish Highlands, the Scandinavian Mountains, and the Little Atlas. Even the Ouachita Mountains are part of this. They were part of the Appalachians until the formation of the Mississippi Embayment separated them.

Please all of you young’ins, if you want to go to Scotland go now. Don’t wait or have someone dictate that you wait, I’m older now at almost 67. I don’t walk very well and in constant pain. So, this lady will dream of Scotland, I’ll be there walking in the highlands. I did live, camp and love in the Appalachia. I am from SC, where the Scottish did settle in large numbers. I live in GA now about 20 miles from Darian, one of the oldest Scottish settlements in the USA. I am Scottish on all four sides and beyond. It does my heart good to see you all so excited about this video. Martha MacCarter.

yes there is such a thing and i would like to inform you, jealousy can run deep at Great distances and I need not remind you of the close range radada lala 16:51

Judy McCoy I was married with Sheryl Jane my mother in law was direct decendent from Sam McCoy Her Uncle Hubert visit us in California in early. 80s Gave us planty of picture of Sam McCoy . Iam blessed that I crossed paths to the historical people from Kentucky. Sincerely thank you for reading my text.

NB here

*new Scotland

Very moving. My ancestors voyaged from Ulster to Virginia, then later to Texas. We must preserve our traditions and oppose all those who want to rewrite or destroy our history. We have much to be proud of on both sides of the Atlantic.

Beautiful

Ireland has nothing to do with the Appalachian mountain. stop inventing the connection. these are the lands and mountains of the natives not the invaders

@@jimgordon6629 but u destroyed the natives history, how rich

@@boohoo54 You are incorrect, and presumably ignorant of plate tectonics, and earth science in general so I will attempt to briefly enlighten you. Note that you could easily do this research yourself if you cared to, simply by googling "how are the Appalachian Mountains connected to Ireland" or "geological history of the earth" or something similar. FACT: The continents and land masses we recognize have not always been as they are now. FACT: All land on this planet sits on top of rigid lithospheric plates, which are constantly moving over the surface of the earth's magma. They have been doing this since earth began, billions of years ago. FACT: Some types of mountains are formed by a process called "folding" - when one plate crashes into the other - which is how the Appalachian Mountains were formed about 375 million years ago (long before there was anything even resembling humans on the earth). FACT: At that time in earth's history, there was no "North American continent" or "European continent" - and if you look at the outlines of the countries on a map (not just N. America & Europe - ALL of them) you will notice that where one curves out, another curves in - as if they once fit together like pieces of a puzzle. Why? Because they did. Once upon a time it was all one super-continent called "Pangea." FACT: What is now called the Appalachian Mountains was part of a land mass that included both what we now call North America and what we now call Europe. FACT: Continents continue to drift and the Americas and Europe have been moving away from each other for millions of years; eventually - in a few million years - they will collide with each other again on the opposite side of the world. FACT: Further research - should you care to do it - would reveal to you that: "The International Appalachian Trail (IAT) runs from Kerry in the extreme southwest of Ireland, through Ireland, Scotland and Norway to Nord Cap, the extreme north point of Norway." Yes. The Appalachian Mountains of N. America are the same mountains as the Appalachian Mountains in Europe. THEREFORE: Your statement that there is no relationship between the two parts of the Appalachian Mountain Range is incorrect. Your belief that the lands and mountains "belong" to anyone has absolutely zero relevance to this argument because humans did not exist at the time. Additional Commentary: With regard to the comment about "invaders," N. America is not the only land that was "invaded" by people from other places. Nor were the people who lived here before Europeans arrived romantic innocents who never harmed a fly. The "first people/indigenous people" who lived here then were actually pretty good at killing each other off when they felt like it - long before Europeans ever showed up, and while they did not have the "benefit" of "western" weapons and diseases, they didn't exactly leave in peaceful harmony or the Garden of Eden. The people who originally settled in the "Celtic Lands" were the original "indigenous" people of that region, and that their ands were invaded; their culture, way of life, spiritual practices and way of life were DELIBERATELY DESTROYED by "invaders," in the 5th century CE. For centuries afterward, their languages, clothing and culture was banned by the English. As recently as last century (and in the memory of some people who are alive right now) it was also forbidden for kids in some Irish, Scots, and Welsh schools to speak their native language. This is pretty much the same thing that happened in to the "First Peoples" of N. America, Australia, Pacific Islands, etc. - just much less recently - and unfortunately, it's still happening now in some parts of the world. Humans can be a nasty, aggressive species and we've been killing and conquering each other for thousands of years. We have been destroying animal, plant, bird, and other species because they tasted good or were useful, or pretty, or perhaps just inconvenient, and even now - when we know better - we continue to do that, and to trash Earth, our home. That doesn't excuse what European settlers did to the people who settled here before them - but getting stuck in this "blame game" and wasting time making accusations, attacking others, and insisting that the land, the earth, etc. "belongs" to anyone is not helpful. Let's try to broaden our perspective, by realizing that the Earth is our home (the only one we have), and it's is a huge, diverse, and incredibly complicated ecosystem filled with a myriad of creatures including humans. As humans - regardless of "race" or "culture" or any other factor, it is our responsibility to care for, protect, respect, and appreciate it and to preserve as much as we can. We need to realize that what is done to one part of it - by whoever does it - harms other parts of it, and in the long-view, "ownership" is irrelevant. We are all one species, connected by a common goal. Putting aside our differences and focusing on the bigger picture is the only way we - and all that we know - will survive.

Your one of the few americans who mention English dna, its asif people are ashamed which I find truly bizarre. People romanticise Ireland Scotland and Wales so much in America. You will get hit with a hard reality slap if you visit any of these countries and try to talk about ancestry

Jeffrey Lundberg They get far more than they deserve now.

pat mallory More than they deserve? They forged the westward migration. I'd say it's quite well deserved. American culture of self-reliance is deep rooted from this.

Jeffrey Lundberg I think the Native-Americans need to be appreciated more, people who hardly anyone took notice of before Walt Disney brought them a bit of fame in the 90's,

pat mallory What an odd thing to say. Care to expunge?

Can that be done with words?

Same

oh so you're native american?

I love it here. Glad to be born and raised here.

Oh, my. Your feelings are easy to understand. The music is so strong that I would love to call that area home.

@@boohoo54 who is Native American

There was no Northern Ireland in 1733. It wasn't formed until 1921. My family's own ties to the time and place are the reason my family is in the US today. My great grandfather was involved in the Easter Uprising in 1916, when everything fell apart over there, he and a few others fled to the US to avoid capture by the authorities, my grandfather was only ten years old at the time.

My father's side goes back to the late 1600s. Families like ours are both deeply rooted here, but the blood of Scotland and Ireland runs in our veins.

I know some McCall's in Henderson County. Nice people.

Cheers! My family is from Waynesville, almost 300 years ago. Still have family in Hendersonville. We’re Davis’s and McGaha’s, Welsh/Scots Irish.

whats up cousin

todd collett same here.

todd collett my grandma was Irish harriette Dutton and my family were considered hill billies the life they showed me growing up was beautiful and peaceful, this world we live in today is all about material and money and it doesn’t make me happy at all I would trade money for happiness any day

Echoed by a boy from Donegal (Dun Na nGall - Den/Fort of the Foreigners - Vikings mostly). - An Irishman abroad who loves America.

Do you feel proud of your Lawson side? Or are you stuck only in the land of Dutton?

todd collett. From the Appalachian Mountains here 🙌🙌🙌👊👊

speculativism s. I believe King James 2nd son of Mary Queen of Scots took the throne but was always at the the English court It should have went to her first son with the Daphne of France , they were married very young, she left France to sit on the Scottish Throne ! Her English cousin executed her, When she died and those after her the throne was given to Hanover lineage ! We have to remember History was made by the Victors ! And it differs to who you talk to or what your taught or read !! Right now you have the Royalists !! And those who scorn them !!

Margaret deVries:--- The Stuart King James VI of Scotland (1st of England) was the son of "Mary Queen of Scots". His granddaughter was "Sophia of Hanover" ( the mother of King George 1st of Great Britain) The Protestant Sophia should have inherited the throne from her childless first cousin (once removed) the Protestant Stuart "Queen Anne", however Sophia died two months before Anne so the throne passed to Sophia's son King George 1st. The first Scots/German King of Great Britain. ( The start of the Hanoverian dynasty).

My family were given 10K acres in Co. Tyrone, as 'Undertakers', to bring clansfolk over to Ulster; within ten years, my ancestor had sold his land to his brother-in-law. Needless to say, this patent came from King James (our cousin).

King James 6 was King of Scotland he was raised by John Knox his protector. The Bible he was raised on what is known as the Geneva Bible. It was Written in English. When King James 6 make him King of England he was 39 years old he felt that the Geneva Bible and the Presbyterian religion was contrary to the monarchy. So he got a bunch of Scholars together and put out his own Bible. the Presbyterians believe government start at the bottom and work to the top. The people were equal to the king because under God all people are equal. You will not find the verse saying to a real governments cuz they were put here by God. Presbyterians did not believe in divine right. The King James version came out 46 years after the Geneva Bible. It was Geneva Bible also known as a presbyterian Bible that came across the pilgrims on the Mayflower. It was also the Bible present during the Declaration of Independence it was also the Bible that George Washington's war on when he became the first president. Eventually the United States because most religions other than the Presbyterian use the King James version. I forgot the Catholics kept the old Catholic Bible. And like I said the Geneva Bible was in English. The English used what was called the Bishops Bible. After King James wrote his Bible the England's start using the King James instead of the bishop Bible

"Inherited the English throne" ---- aka King of England hnmph

My dad always said the same thing about our ancestry. This video is so helpful.

Another Scottish/Scots Irish person here. But my Scottish Highland ancestors, after losing in the Jacobite Wars against England, hired themselves out as mercenaries to King George and then stayed in the States. I guess the DAR wouldn't want me, though.

My ancestor was given orders by King George to survey land in the Bluefield region of Virginia, upon doing so staked claim to the land and became a scout/spy for the colonial army

I'm there with you, too. My ancestry parallels yours. We share a marvelous heritage!

You are so blessed to know such rich information about your people.

Black hart that 4 the cowards in the i r a. I hope ur from good Ulster Scots stock and support the CSA

And English there SMITH. Good on yah anyway

scots irish, maybe, but Appalachian no. these mountains are native american. oh the arrogance

@Jou Moer nope, never said there were exceptional in any way. but their history is the true history of this continent. irish are the appalachian people? do u even see how stupid that sounds? spaniards are the people of mexico? chinese are the people of Tibet?

@@Birdman2003 Smith is also Scottish, it is also Welsh and is in the top 5 most common Surnames in the Irish Republic.

my ancestors settled in western Pennsylvania before the revolution. Originally from Mull, then they went to co. Cavan,Ire. 3 of my ancestors fought the btits here in ohio. 8th generation ohioan. the appalachains are the oldest mountain range in the world. once the size of the alps.

It's an amazing place David. I spent my 1st 25yrs in Scotland before moving 2 Canada. My wife and I have visited West Virginia. The people and scenery are just amazing. So friendly and welcoming.

I'm predominantly Ulster Scot (County Antrim) in heritage, I'm absolutely dying to see Northern Ireland and Scotland. My wife's family is from Down and Antrim as well..

You would be very welcome in Appalachia. Come on over!

I live in the Blue Ridge Mountain range of the Appalachia in Northeast TN and even tho I havent really been anywhere else on my life I have to say, its an amazing place.

My mom taught me buck dancing as a little boy. It was part of her heritage from both sides of her family. Her brothers and sisters used to play the music at the dances and mama played the spoons which goes way back in the Irish Scotts heritage.

I love the music especially the Celtic music. Tom Janis has several music videos playing the Celtic and Galic music

my scots irish ancestors settled in ross county ohio primarily but other areas in ohio too

That's beautiful! Best of luck!

What a beautiful legacy of your life! Blessings to you, my Appalachian Kin. Blessings to you!

Bluegrass is the greatest deep-roots American music.

Bluegrass is a mixture of Celtic, Irish folk and African blues music. You can hear all of the influences.

@@char08fal scottish folk

So does our dancing

@@brucecollins4729 She is correct, our blues was mixed in as well

Fyodor48... I was born in WV, but only lived there for a few months and have spent the last 43 years in Michigan, but I will always call WV home.

Michael Nichols Given the beauty of the place I can completely understand that, One day I shall visit, one day. If for nothing else than to meet up with a baptist pastor friend of mine, I would love to visit in the Fall to see the colour of the foilage

Medina Jarman , you are kindness personified, thank you.

as a born a raised West Virginian you are welcome anytime.

Drove out to Wayne county WV on a whim to see where my grandmother and all of her family grew up, I didn't want to leave! I wish I could have went with her to at least one family reunion so I could have gotten to know the family that I still have there. So beautiful there,I hope to own some land out there one day.

You'll definitely be given a warm welcome in Wales, and I'm sure in Ireland and Scotland too. We love our history and are always interested in the history of those that escaped the harsh life here, and set off for the New World to start a new life.

@@Walesktf thank you! I'd love to visit there in the future.

You are an American Mut just like me. Hi my name is Shane from Central PA, nice to meet you.

Music is my daily life. Dr Ralph Stanley was my Step-Uncle as was Carter. I LOVE the Old Stories put to Music.

@@shanersmith2608I definitely would be offended if someone called me a mutt. But I feel you said that jokingly so it’s all good, Smith. I know about the Irish Smiths. I get my Strength from my Deep Roots & we taught my 3 Cubs. We didn’t chase leaves we learned from the elders around. Now I teach. God bless you and Til Valhalla. 😊👋🏼

50% of Americans mispronounce it. Staggering ignorance!

Ain’t it the truth - I’ve never pronounced it any other way and anyone from here don’t either

Me too😂

I've heard and seen so many variations of the word appalachian. I'm a native east kentuckian. We pronounce the word apple-ay-shun in my area.

Kaden I also felt joy with the correct pronunciation! I actually will not continue to watch a video if the narrator does not correctly pronounce Appalachia

Guess that all follows the bloodlines... Love for music, storytelling, oversion to tyranny, and no place of peace to rest... My life's beginning to make sense now.. 😆

@@barbararaegurley4910 same

Scotch Irish here. My family lived in the N.C. end of the Appalachian Mountains. Some now at the foothills and Piedmont region. I asked my grandfather once why would our ancestors have chosen such rough land to come here and live on? He said when the Scotch Irish got here they were poor but together they had a little money they could have purchased better land together to farm but people already here didn't want to sell to them. They were poorly thought of. Even called drunken monkeys. The land in the Appalachian was rough, raw, rocky and hills that most thought not fit to have. That's what they were able to buy. Most could not farm it but the Scotch Irish did. They worked hard and moved stone and rocks and even used it in what they built and made hedges, houses, walls and fences with the stones. They found a way to farm it enough to scratch out a living. My grandfather, grandmother and great grandmother, clear down to my mama sang some of the old songs. I never realized anybody took an interest in any of that? I still go to the old bluegrass festivals. Closest you can get to mountain music any more.

always under someone else's foot? cause they didnt put their feet on the natives necks, right?

@@boohoo54 One in every crowd. Take your disrespectful boo hooing and plight your cause somewhere else.

Ohio appalachia

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Thanks for the referral!

Thank you for sharing that. Appreciate it.

Great Suffering as well as Sheer Grit and Determination is in our blood

It still runs in our dna to this day, we are fighters by our very nature, friendly also, look at the most decorated british soldier of ww2, col blair paddy mayne, an ulster man, the ulster scot played a massive part in securing victories in every british conflict up til now

Mountain people are hardcore.

and I didnt even mention the displacement of our native american brethren. My grandfather (Siders) swore his great grandmother was Cherokee. I don't know about that one. But seriously if I hated people for ethnic reasons I would never stop hating myself. Anyway, I am proud to be a mutt.

Lucas Coffey ...Irish, Scottish, Norman’s, Welsh, Anglo-Saxon have fought for centuries, that is what siblings do, and that is exactly what the Monarchs of those nations were over time, brothers fighting brothers, and sisters fighting sisters...

@@pennydavis2637You forgot the English.

My maiden name is Coffee. Wonder if we're related.

My mother’s paternal line are Coffey’s from Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains.

I have said it all.

+Charles Yeary Yep while I have not had the privilege of living off the land my whole life I did experience it to some extent as a child my mothers second husband had a very old fashioned family and we had livestock and would go through the mountains searching for ginseng. They had electricity but they had no running water so they used branch that was nearby for water supply. I also learned all sorts of plants that are edible in the woods but still to this day I do not know what they are called ha ha. I spent most my time in the Blue Ridge area foothills around Lambsburg va. It's a majestic place.

My Mother side was raised in that area last name Ayres

+Bruce Fultz from Ayr in Ayrshire, Scotland, where MANY Scottish Protestant Planters in Ulster (Scotch-Irish in American terms) came from.

+Charles Yeary powerful story man. You should write a book.

I had family come over .. under the surname Garrett. Mine is Campbell though

Interesting!

Very true!

I’m from Bay County and I can’t leave her, my people are buried here. When I go in-land I feel a magnetic pull to go home to Bay County Florida. 🌴🦦🔥🐍

My family had long pause in Grundy County, TN. I've never been there, but it does have a strange pull on me.

It's very similar in landscape to Ireland ..

@@silvergirl2847Just minus the heat.

East Tennessee myself. Never seen a beach. Never wanted to either. You got sand. You got ocean. Get tired of that you got ocean & sand. I'm born in these mountains. Raised. Live here. Will die here. No better place on earth. Starting to build up..WAY TO MUCH..from what I refer to as Yankee Foreigners. Another 20 years and it won't be the same. Sad

look at that wee dug linda in scotland

My whole family are redheads. I am copper and sister and brother were strawberry.

My grandfather and many others had red and strawberry, copper, my grandmother's family had dark, Indian hair.

My grandfather and uncle have red hair. My father’s side had very fair skin,lots of red heads and blondes.

Are you related to any Canada smith or Roman's?

I had an uncle Bear Gilman from Pike Kentucky why I asked.

AMEN!!!

Yes it’s amazing to see our ancestry, my uncle has traced our first Irish ancestor arriving in America and marrying a Cherokee woman, we even know their names! He also traced us to the house of Fraser in the lowlands of Scotland, a friend of mine is from the cousins house of Fraser in the Highlands.

Yes to all of this. Same here.

Unless you know of anyone specific in your family's recent history then you definitely share a common ancestor with an Appalachian before you would a continental European.

william f im Scottish Irish and long to go to Scotland to possibly live one day

At least half the population here have Irish blood. I'd bet that. We have always been sympathetic to the irish struggle against the english.

Aye!

@Talorc MacAllan so true. The american imperialism is english imperialism 2.0.

Funny!

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Was your German side protestant as well?

Crazy this is my family to a tee except my dads were polish

Skull as thick as a brick? Seems to be a common trait among us Irish/Scottish/German "mutts".

Amen! Come on out anytime! You're assumptions about the South Appalachians are correct, I live here 😅 You'd be most welcome, people here looooove Irish and Scottish folk❤ I think it's bc it makes us feel connected to our roots, family. You'd be popular and have many cool conversations, make friends, and enjoy some good local music and food if ya look for it!

Mine ended up in SOUTHERN Illinois and the hill country of Texas.

Same here. ❤

Anyone with surnames of Barnett,Fowler or Cole here? Eventually from Northeast Texas?

Scots-Irish scotch is a beverage

Thank you for sharing that! This was a great documentary!

yes a scots surname linda in scotland

"Scotch-Irish" is correct.

@@dixiecyrus8136 In 1695, Sir Thomas Laurence, Secretary of Maryland, referred to “the two counties of Dorchester and Somerset, where the Scotch-Irish are numerous.” (329-330). In 1723, two different Anglican ministers in Delaware stated that the settlers from northern Ireland referred to themselves as “Scotch-Irish,” and in 1730 James Logan, secretary to the Penn family, stated that the term was also used by settlers in Pennsylvania (330). In 1737, the editor of the Virginia Gazette referred to several ships “from the North of Ireland, and from Holland [that] have brought a great Number of Irish, Scotch-Irish, and Palatines, Passengers” (Montgomery 3). Here we clearly see the native Irish being differentiated from the Scotch-Irish. The Pennsylvania Gazette in 1756 mentioned “some Scotch-Irish kill’d” by Indians on the Pennsylvania frontier (Montgomery 3). Further south, Governor Arthur Dobbs of North Carolina, an immigrant from Ulster himself, wrote of seventy-five families “from Pennsylvania of what we call Scotch-Irish Presbyterians” who settled in his colony in 1755 (Leyburn 215). In the late 1760’s, the Anglican minister Charles Woodmason preached among “Scotch Irish Presbyterians from the North of Ireland” who were living in the South Carolina backcountry (Hooker 14). And in 1772, a newspaper advertisement in the Virginia Gazette reported a runaway African slave named Jack who “speaks in the Scotch-Irish dialect” (Bridenbaugh 169).

My peoples last name was Bryant n Snow. I always love hearing about my people. My daddy was from N C n he talked it n walked it. His mama was a Snow. Love this n loved my daddy n his people. ❤😊

Scottish Surname, Jamaican branch present! Scottish, English, Scandinavian (probably via the Scottish/Northern English branch) Welsh, African of all sorts, and a good sprinkling of Jewish somehow... My DNA list is HUGE 🤣

Me too

yes m'am

@Jason Smith , You are correct. 'Genetic Memory' can possibly be the cause of several types of personality traits. They are learning more and more about what is generally called genetic memory traits now with each year that passes. It is unique that so many Irish, Scots-Irish, and Scotsmen seem to have the same basic likes and dislikes. As in the dislike of being 'Ordered' to do something. Now, a person can Ask us nicely to do something and we no problems .. (most of the time.) 🎻🎙🎶🙂. (I'm of Irish/Cherokee, (father) and of Apache/German/Irish/Cherokee (mother) ancestors.)

The federal government will fail miserably when they try going up into them Appalachian and Allegheny mountains. There will be way more blood shed now then was shed back during the American revolutionary and civil wars.

@Jason Smith my Denton's and Smith's mixed in the mid 1600's when LT John Rock Smiths daughter Mary Rock Smith married my 8 th/ great grandfather/Samuel Denton in 1660's in Hempstead long Island,ny.

Aversion to authority.... Could my Scots-Irish ancestors have passed this on to me, a fire-in-her-soul redhead and all 8 of my redheaded, extremely bullheaded children? If so, I thank them! I wouldn't change a thing. That aversion to authority has served me well.

You can take the Boy Out of the Country...BUT you CANT' take the Country 'Out the Boy. 🌏 🌲 🐺 OR the Girl. i hearU ! Took a 3 mt. Rd.trip thru Calif. Was a memory of a lifetime! Point being. Can truly understand, why you headed West. COULD of easily Hung my Hat around Julian for longer. MAYBE you heard of this town?🌵Many others, as well. Future List*-a Spend couple mnts.Thru Arizona /😘 Havasupai Nation. See Wounded Knee 😘 l'd lay on the blood stained ground * Smudge w white Sage, Red Cedar @ my 3 feather fan. Scatter gift offerng of Tobacco. Red Cedar for gift offering. In the dead silence, i hear the cries of my peoples. " Wakan-Tanan Kici Un.: (May the Great Spirit Bless You.) Pila'maya. (Thank you.) Lakota language. ⭐ 🌖 🐺

Keep playing the music and you'll never be forgotten.

Good on You!!!

Have you heard of Young's cove west of Asheville in Candler, that's where my family lived from the early 18th century.

Same here Teresa I love the mountains &asheville. Most beautiful. It’s true you feel at home in Ireland and Scotland- love them too.selene

We're in Asheville, too....this part of the country is truly magical!

@@randyowens3419 Hello Randy, small world isn't it.

Derlin Claire he looked a bit haunted, didn’t he. I wonder if this was about the time he was covering Trent Reznor.

Derlin Claire I was thinking of Johnny and Loretta when I opened this video. Such a great story teller in music. Miss them. I’m Scottish too, and very happy the scotts are so independent ❤️

@@timmyteaching He had lost his love.

@@timmyteaching likely he was blind or partially blind by then.

JOHNNY CASH FAMILY ARE FROM KINGDOM OF FIFE IN SCOTLAND

Greetings from a Scots -Irish in western Pa. (Irwin)

AMERICAN??? : FUCK OFF YOUR A CITIZEN OF "NORTH AMERICA". AND THAT MEANS MEXICAN, CANADIAN, FRENCH CANADIAN, AND CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES...of America.

neither do the actual scots who have been in the americas since the 1500s. then the later ulster scots , many of them would still have been full scots having lived in ireland a few years or even months before leaving for the americas.

​@@dalepeto9620That's my surname also! I'm from Armagh City, Northern Ireland. We're Ulster Scots over here !

cool

Jim Yes!

there is no reason not to be proud.

You should be. YOu are True American.

Are you inbred? Do you get into life and death struggles over perceived slights? Are you dumb as fuck?

These are not Celtics, they are Scots-Irish not Irish

Hey ard uuubrekated yo Denton's from Hempstead,long island,ny or from Shenandoah valley,va? My 7 th/gg/ was Jane Seamon who married Jonas Denton's in Hempstead long Island inthe early 1700's.

@@davidweiss9891 the scots and Irish are Celtic same blood

@@davidweiss9891 yes they are!!! At one time the whole of the British isles were Celtic!

@Zaidia Naif French also have Celtic blood, and Southern Germans too.

Just to clarify, that wouldn't class you as Scots Irish.

Thats a very cool mixture.

Lisa Lentile my dad too.

Ours mixed with Choctaw Indian

My Denton's mixed with the native tribes from 1600's into 1800's. After settling in northeast Tennessee by the 1770's they mixed with the yates,huskins,shaws,stevens tapps/tappticos from western north carolina. The huskins had intermarried with plotts and little John's from murphy,nc up in cherokee by the late 1700's. They also mixed with the jones and riddles from hendersonville,nc by the late 1800's.

Probably black too

me too.

Ulster (Northern Ireland) and the USA have great ties. Never let the "Irish American" culture sweep you to one side.

If you keep saying scotch Irish instead of Scott's Irish..you will need gods help to survive.

Lol

@@jenrutherford6690 I just posted the same thing the other day..

hi my mothers family irish from county tyrone can i just say correct saying is scots irish from linda in scotland

@@jenrutherford6690 Scots-Irish*

Glad to hear from a songwriter. I, too, write them, and poetry, one book. My brother used to beg mh mom to make me stop singing because I made up songs about my dogs and the donkey that we owned. I guess I know where that tendencey comes from. Thank you ancestord.

My daddy n his people was name of Bryant n his mama was a Snow. My daddy’s people moved to Delaware in early 1900s but my daddy always took us back to N C to stomp old grounds n to see his peoples. I loved it n now my daddy’s gone n pretty well all our people here in Delaware. I always enjoyed my daddy’s little jigs he danced n loved going to N C because I always felt at home there. I sure do miss my daddy n his mama. ❤😊. Love this site n learned so much. ❤

My great-grandfather went West, to Texas, trained Mexican on our side to use Gatling guns,then to California, brought grandfather back here, SEOhio.He forgot to mention SEO.Mother side changed their name before my grandfather was born from McFagan to Figgins somewhere,grandpa was born in 1899.

There is no place like home.

Yes learning this was "mind blown" for me. I'm going to read up on that....

Loved this history immensely. GOD BLESS !!!❤❤❤

Mine hails from the late 1600s--I never realised how tied they were to Appalachia until maybe 80 years ago.