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My maternal grandmother stems from Scotts of Yorkshire. I suspect there's not a lot of Scottish ancestry there.

The border between Scotland and its southern neighbor was quite mutable over a long period of time, and without going anywhere people had changing nationality. Add to that
the nature of the border folk raiding and trading across the border, the bloodline ties across the border were a given. Scotts were border folk, and family has been more durable
than borders. In one of my lines, there were three Capt. William Moseleys in Virginia in 1660, two from England (one from London, one from Staffordshire), and one from the
Netherlands. All three trace back to the Staffordshire/Shropshire/Offa's Dyke area. Not a question of kin, just how far back.