Update to List of Scottish Royal Descents

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Kelsey Williams

Update to List of Scottish Royal Descents

Legg inn av Kelsey Williams » 13 mai 2005 22:59:11

Hello,

I've recently updated my catalogue of royally descended Scottish
immigrants to America to include twenty-seven new gateway ancestors
I've discovered in the last few months as well as one person (Peter
Penn-Gaskell) who is listed in RD600 but who I'd forgotten to include
on the original list. The addendum can be accessed here:

http://www.donstonetech.com/ScottishRD/ ... dendum.htm

and the complete list (containing one hundred and ninety-three
immigrants at the moment) can be accessed here:

http://www.donstonetech.com/ScottishRD/ ... byName.htm

Thanks again to Don Stone for hosting these lists!

Some of the new immigrants have previously appeared in Browning's
_Americans of Royal Descent_ but as Browning only traced "legitimate"
descents (thus ignoring all from Kings James IV & V) and is also
notoriously inaccurate I've had occasion to revise, or simply rewrite,
all of these pedigrees in one way or another. Among the others,
Alexander Nisbet's descent from Robert II has already been discussed
here not long ago but the others are, I believe, relatively unknown.
John Macpherson (d. 1792), of "Mount Pleasant," Pennsylvania may be of
particular interest as he seems have been an important personage in his
day (John Adams dined at his estate in 1775). Angus Bethune (who
immigrated to North Carolina in 1773) may also be of some interest as
yet another instance of a royally descended Scot immigrating to the
Hebridean colony in North Carolina.

If anyone has any questions about these lines let me know (although I
will be out of town until next Saturday and so will not be able to
respond immediately).

Sincerely,
Kelsey J. Williams

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