Best Scottish Emigration History

Best Scottish Emigration History. Scottish Exodus: Travels Among a Worldwide Clan. Millions of Scots have left their homeland during the last four hundred years. Until now, they have been written about in general terms. Scottish Exodus breaks new ground by taking particular emigrants, drawn from the once-powerful Clan MacLeod, and discovering what happened to them and their families. These people became, among other things, French aristocrats, Polish resistance fighters, Texan ranchers, New Zealand shepherds, Australian goldminers, Aboriginal and African-American activists, Canadian mounted policemen and Confederate rebels. One nineteenth-century MacLeod even went so far as to swap his Gaelic for Arabic and his Christianity for Islam before settling down comfortably in Cairo. This gripping account of Scotland's worldwide diaspora is based on unpublished documents, letters and family histories. It is also based on the author's travels in the company of today's MacLeods - some of them still in Scotland, others further afield. "Scottish Exodus" is a tale of disastrous voyages, famine and dispossession, the hazards of pioneering on faraway frontiers. But it is also the moving story of how people separated from Scotland by hundreds of years and thousands of miles continue to identify with the small country where their journeyings began. Scottish Exodus: Travels Among a Worldwide Clan.

Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports. A database of English, Welsh, Scottish, and Irish immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York between 1870 and 1897. Passenger lists. Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers Arriving at U.S. Ports: v. 2 (Emigration from the United Kingdom to America: Lists of Passengers).