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I thought they were the descendants of people who lived along the Scotland-England border centuries ago. The Scots Irish who went to N. Ireland for religious freedom. A lot of them came to the US (before it was the US.)
I only know about them from genealogy and maybe I am wrong.
Well no it isn't surprising the number of huguenots is next to nothing. They make this fuss about huguenots but I find little evidence of their existence. I don't even think they settled here in my area of NI, most are scottish here tbh.
I thought they were the descendants of people who lived along the Scotland-England border centuries ago. The Scots Irish who went to N. Ireland for religious freedom. A lot of them came to the US (before it was the US.)
I only know about them from genealogy and maybe I am wrong.
they went to northern Ireland for the free land , the british sent them there in order to weaken the resolve of the population of that region of Ireland which had always been the most rebellious and hardest to control
they went to northern Ireland for the free land , the british sent them there in order to weaken the resolve of the population of that region of Ireland which had always been the most rebellious and hardest to control
I read somewhere the Lairds kicked the tenant farmers off the land in the borderlands of Scotland and Northern England to raise sheep and whats-'is-name found a convenient use for them to punish/dilute the more contrary than usual Irish in Ulster by exporting them there.
Whatever - all I know is that I wouldn't be here if the whole chain of events hadn't been set in motion.
Why don't you google the answer instead of being a typical race obsessed American? Further feeding the stereotype that we are always thinking about race 24/7
yes but ethnically , the scots , English , welsh and irish are pretty much identical
One of those inconvenient truths discovered via genetic testing.
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