Term for Scottish emigrant descendants?

[Seeria]

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]

Diaspora?

[Southern Breeze]

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

Thankfully, I had it bookmarked.

[Wompet]

"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.

[macwilkin]

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.

[Phogfan86]

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.

[Glen C]

By the way, Welcome to the rabble! Where in Wisconsin are you located? As for your question, how about "original settlers", or "founding fathers".

[Seeria]

*slaps her head* I KNEW that term really My old age is fiddling with my brain

Thanks all for the refreshers *cheer*

Where in WI? North of Madison where it's cold but not as bad as say oooh Superior!

[Bugbear]

Welcome.

[Spartan]

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.