Term for Scottish emigrant descendants?

**Seeria** · 26th January 09, 10:53 AM

Long ago I seem to recall coming across a term for people of Scottish emigrant descent.

Anyone know the term?

[Not sure if this is the right spot for this question, couldn't find anything better matching a non-kilt topic!]

**svc40bt** · 26th January 09, 11:04 AM

Diaspora?

**Southern Breeze** · 26th January 09, 11:29 AM

Covenanters ? From here - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....bin/scots.html

Thankfully, I had it bookmarked.

**macwilkin** · 26th January 09, 12:28 PM

Originally Posted by Southern Breeze

Covenanters ? From here - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb....bin/scots.html

Thankfully, I had it bookmarked.

Only if your ancestors were Reformed Presbyterians... I doubt an RC and/or Episcopalian Scot would like be referred to as a "Covenanter".

T.

**Spartan** · 26th January 09, 02:12 PM

Originally Posted by cajunscot

Only if your ancestors were Reformed Presbyterians... I doubt an RC and/or Episcopalian Scot would like be referred to as a "Covenanter".

T.

For this Episcopalian, that would be correct -- that is, would not like.

, Seeria, from Arizona, and former Wisconsinite.

**Southern Breeze** · 26th January 09, 02:18 PM

Glad you found it.
I tossed out Covenanters simply because it's not very common. I've only came across it three or four times.

**Phogfan86** · 26th January 09, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by svc40bt

Diaspora?

Acc to merriam-webster.com, "diaspora" is defined as the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland. It can also describe people settled far from their ancestral homelands.

In light of The Clearances, this would make sense.

**Wompet** · 26th January 09, 12:24 PM

"Us"
I've simply heard "Scots" and "Scots-Irish" before ... although there may have been another term in one of the Scots-Irish threads ...
Covenanters is a new one to me. But it doesn't (necessarily) include the Jacobites, so it's not inclusive.