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Royal Descents of Scottish Immigrants

12/10/2014

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I'm pleased to say that this website will now be home to a series of notes I've been keeping on Scottish immigrants to the new world who were probably or definitely of royal descent.  You can find these underneath the "Scottish Immigrants" tab at the top of the screen.  Eventually this will include a separate page containing notes for each immigrant, but at the moment only a few of these are live.  I hope to gradually add more over the coming months.

Please do let me know if this material is useful and, particularly, if there's an immigrant or immigrants on the index page whose details you'd like me to load sooner rather than later.  I'm happy to accommodate individuals' research interests and am also curious to see which immigrants attract the most attention.

In due course I also hope to say something on this blog about what it might mean that so many immigrants to the new world descended from a single medieval royal family and how that should encourage us to rethink some of the concepts underlying the genealogical fascination with "gateway ancestors" and "royal descents".


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Debbie McMurry link
30/8/2015 05:45:34

While on your website, I was led here. It is amazing now much information is accessible to all of us online. I am still trying to find Sander Glen's family. We know he married Katherine Duncanson in the Netherlands, but where did he come from in Scotland??

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Steve Hammond
2/1/2016 14:35:23

Saw your website awhile ago and thought I link to some information that may help firm up Thomas Hamilton of New England as Captain Thomas Hamilton son of George Hamilton 1st Baronet of Donalong. Here's a link to paper looking at some of the DNA data and standard genealogical data as well. Since this paper was published, more advanced Y-DNA results continue to support (but not prove) this descent. I do think it is interesting that Lydia Wing (a Quaker) remarried almost exactly 1 year after Captain Thomas Hamilton died in Boston. I'm one of the direct male descendants (with a non-paternal event en route) of Thomas Hamilton of New England. http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/a/gah4/HamDNA/UlsterHamilton.pdf

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