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| Posted by: Rosemary 02-Jun-2004, 11:19 PM |
| So, where did your relatives come from, and where did they settle? Some of mine came from Ireland and settled in Texas (which is interesting). Others came from Scotland and ended up in Alabama. (Also interesting). You don't really hear of a lot of people doing that. |
| Posted by: greenldydragon 10-Jun-2004, 04:16 PM |
| Spain/Puerto Rico and settled in Brooklyn and United Kingdom to Ohio. |
| Posted by: Aaediwen 10-Jun-2004, 04:38 PM |
| Germany and Scotland to VA. Rose: Indeed one doesn't hear as much of those states, but it surprises me that we don't, rather than being a surprise that Immigrants from the Isles found themselves there  They call this country a salad bowl or melting pot for a reason, I'd find it intreugeing if a pertuicular area *lacked* those of a perticular nationality. |
| Posted by: bradfordskyle 03-Dec-2004, 06:29 PM |
| My Irish ancestors came to Texas and Mississippi. |
| Posted by: dfilpus 03-Dec-2004, 06:42 PM |
| Finland to Michigan. |
| Posted by: Mailagnas maqqas Dunaidonas 04-Dec-2004, 06:38 AM |
| On my father's side (which I've only been able to trace back a few generations), my immigrant ancestors arrived in Scott and Clark Counties, Indiana, in the early to mid-1800's from Ulster (McDonald), Scotland (Campbell), and Germany (Ulmer, Deppe). On my mother's side, the most recent immigrants were Peter and Anna Anderson (Malmo, Sweden), late 1800's, whose farmhouse still stands at the corner of Route 20 and Peter Anderson Road in Burlington, WA, and the least recent was John Livingston I, who settled in Virgina in the mid-1600's, likely after being unable to settle his father's estate in Scotland, due to his father's debts. Surnames of New England immigrant ancestors include Woolsey, Hopkins, and Thorne. Other Virginia immigrant ancestors (from mid-1600's to late 1700's) include Bolton, Morgan, Frazier, Franklin, Gibson, Hog(g)(e), McCulloch, Ware, and Strong (mostly from Scotland, some from England, and least one from Wales). A clan Donald DNA study suggests that in my direct paternal line, my ancestors were in Ulster at least as early as the early 300's. While most of my ancestors on my mother's side ended up in Scott County (exteme SW) VA, it is interesting to note that a good number of collateral kin followed the migration paths to places like Alabama, Arkansas, and Texas. A few collaterals were among the Mormon settlers of Utah. Some of my direct maternal ancestors (a Yankee militiaman in one of the units that defeated Morgan's raiders at Cynthiana, married to the niece of a surgeon who served with Morgan's raiders) stopped off in Arkansas for a couple of decades after the late unpleasantness before settling in Skagit County, WA. My father's family has pretty much stayed in Clark County, Indiana. |
| Posted by: gwenlee 04-Dec-2004, 02:25 PM |
| My family has been in the United States since the mid 1700's, most of our family root are from Scotland, and Scot-Irish. We have family names such as Ross, McDonald, Gappen, Moffat, Macfarlane. Some of our research shows an immigration from Pennsylvania to the south while the Ross family seems to have immigrated to North Carolina between 1745 and 1750. We have some English in us but the family is quick to point out these ancestor were married to Scotts or Irish and had immigrated from Scotland or Ireland not England. Some of my ancestors also married into the Cherokee tribe. I don't have any immediate family that has recently immigrated, and I proud that I'm descended from people who were strong and endured the hardships of not only coming over but carving out a niche in this country. |
| Posted by: bigjimhainey 09-Dec-2004, 08:58 AM |
| My family(that ive been able to trace) came into either carolina or virginia from Ireland and moved to tennesee until finally settling down in the hills of alabama. the other side that i know of was already here. some cherokee and seminole. |
| Posted by: catlynelizabeth 29-Jan-2005, 06:37 PM |
| The Irish side of the family came from Mayo and Sligo in Ireland around the 1920's and settled in New York City. Since then they have spread out through New York, Massacheuttes, New Jersey, and Ohio. The other side the Scottish side settled in upstate New York I think, and the French side originally settled in Canada before moving southward into New York. That's about all I know. |
| Posted by: MiLadyCeilidh 30-Dec-2005, 05:47 PM |
| Scotland to Virginia ... Mass ... Kentucky ... and Ohio My heart is in the South! There are Leslie's all over the South! |
| Posted by: redmondc 31-Dec-2005, 08:55 AM |
| G'day, New here to this site. My family on the maternal side has been here in the USA since the 1600's and my paternal side isn't completely certain of when. The perdominant origin is Ireland, Wales, Scottland, Spain and France. On my paternal side I know we are related to the Carrolls of the Charles Carroll of Carrollton family, Thomas Paine. The Redmond's are from County Galway. I am not certain where the Carroll's and Copeland's originated. Some how through arriving in Virginia they ended up in Alabama, Georgia and Mississippi. On my Maternal side we traced the maternal roots to the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. They were the Dukes of Runnymede, the meadow where the document was signed. Also discovered that Marthat Epps was wife to Thomas Jefferson and from there our history travels to Alabama, Mississippi and Geaorgia. "They scratch a Southerner in the USA and you are likely to find a blood relative." Our maternal Family names are Cleveland, Barte, Eslava, Epps and Mullen. The French arrived at the original site of Mobile in the 1600's and the Spanish Miguel Eslava had been Viceroy to Cartegena in Columbia, Governor of Mexico and then King Ferdinand's treasurer to the City of Mobile during the Spanish ownership whish was bought by the US in the Louisiana Purchase. I come from a long line of freedom fighters and independent thinkers. I learned herbology from my Great-grandmother Lynda Kennedy on my mother's paternal side, which are Mullen, Kennedy, Dean, Mackenzie. These families again all resided in either Alabama, Mississippi, or Georgia. My paternal grandmother was received as a member of the First Families of Virginia based on her geneology. |
| Posted by: ronw1 16-May-2007, 07:18 PM |
| decendent of the stuckley westcott's of Rhode Island one of the founding fathers of the state, By what I have been able to find out they come from Devonshire and areas around If family tree is correct it goes back to Ledger De Wescoat about 1300's Now have family scattered to the four corners of the country Ill. Or probly Wis, Ny. Oh and of course might still have in Rhode Island but still working on that part . |
| Posted by: Roberto Phoenix 16-May-2007, 07:44 PM |
| Italy decendants came to Michigan via New York and Ceveland to Michigan. German/UK straight to the U.P. |
| Posted by: Madadh 17-May-2007, 04:34 AM |
My Fathers family came from Southern Ireland into Norther New York, where my Mothers family came from Northern Ireland to Southern New York.  |
| Posted by: Scooterly 20-May-2007, 11:56 AM |
| My mother's family came from Mitchelstown, Cork, Ireland and were actually Peter Robinson settlers that came to Canada on the ship Resolution in 1825. From there the son of John came down into South Dakota and his daughter brought the family to Montana! Pretty interesting read to, about the Peter Robinson settlers. This page has a list of all the passangers: http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/passengerlists/resolution1825.htm And number 29, Brien, are my ancestors which is really cool! It was an exciting find for the family . . .As for my dad's side, its really hard to trace back and sadly, we have no records . . . |
| Posted by: Íácób 27-May-2007, 02:14 PM |
| My father's family came mostly from England, Ireland, Germany, France, and Scotland. The majority of my ancestors from this side immigrated in the 1600s and early 1700s, and settled mostly in RI, MA, MD, PA, NY, NJ, and WV. On that side, I am related to a governor of RI, Benedict Arnold, and his great-grandson, the traitor of the same name, by marriage. I'm also descended from English and French royalty and nobility through a distant ancestor on my grandmother's side, Lt. Nathaniel Felton. He was directly descended from a Knight of the Garter, Sir Thomas de Felton of Litcham, and had descent from an illegitimate half-sister of Philippa of Hainault, the le Stranges of Knockyn, the de Someries (ancestors of the Dudley family), the d'Aubigny Earls of Arundel, the Earls of Chester and Gloucester, the de Clares, the Marshalls, the de Beaumonts, the first Earl of Salisbury, Henry I and William the Conqueror, and Charlemagne and the Merovingians. My mother's side, from what little information we have, came from England and Ireland, though my grandfather said he was part German too. Most of them settled in NC, SC, AL, and GA. My grandmother's a Carroll, but we don't know if she ties in with the Carrolls of MD or not; probably not. |
| Posted by: pflanary 01-Jun-2007, 01:41 PM | ||
I went to school with a girl who was from Texas. She was 100% Irish even through her family has been in this country since the middle 1800s. I am mostly of Irish decent with names Flanary, Hagen, Glenn and others further back. The Flanary branch has been in this country since before 1750 first in NC and then in VA. My great-grandfather Hagen came to KY in the mid to late 1800s. I don't know when the Glenns came over but it was before then. I'm also Scots--Womack and Duncan, Welsh--Morgan, English--Penningtons who intermarried with the Flanarys quite a bit, and if you go back a ways Swedish--Dawson and French Hugenot--LeGrand. Those are the ones I'm aware of. There are lots more which my Dad could tell you about going all the way back to Brian Boru and Charlemane. As far as where my folks immigrated to, its mostly VA and KY. |
| Posted by: UlsterScotNutt 25-Apr-2008, 12:31 PM |
Early 1600 from Scotland to Ireland. Early 1700 from northern Ireland to Massachusetts then 1800s to Ohio on my fathers side. Mother side is Chilean from Galicia, Spain early 1800s. I get to be Celtic from all different sides and areas.  |
| Posted by: Findabhair 23-Apr-2009, 07:59 PM |
| Mothers side-1880's Germany to Missouri, 1910 Belgium to England to Ohio Fathers side- 1984 Scotland to Canada to Texas (they are insane it is too hot out there) |