Where Did the Words Hillbilly and Redneck Come From? The History of Scots-Irish Americans
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- Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
- The terms hillbilly and redneck get tossed around in modern society as derogatory terms for people who live in rural communities. While most people are familiar with the words, many aren’t aware of their interesting origins, and how it relates to the history of the Scots Irish Presbyterians that settled in America.
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Yep! My 6th great grandfather was a Patterson that came to South Carolina from Ulster, Ireland in 1773!
Very cool!
Did your 6th Great Grandfather come from Tyrone in Ulster,I? can trace my family back to early 1800 from there
I have McDaniels, Pollocks, and other ancestors from Scotland. Most of my ancestors settled in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and later moved west. I am thankful that my ancestors came to America in the early settlement of the USA.
We are probably related then! McDaniels and Pollocks all over West Virginia
My last name is McDowell and I am a Scottish and Irish descendent
Interestingly, the culture that the early Scots Irish southern settlers brought with them was passed to the blacks who spent centuries living amongst them and that is how the ghetto culture originated. Thomas Sowell has written about this, it's very interesting. ua-cam.com/video/294QTOXhvwA/v-deo.html
I’m in the same bag. Most of my English ancestors can be traced back to 1600’s England and came to Virginia in the 1600’s. That’s what most southern whites come from. The Scotch-Irish, if they really are that, are difficult to trace before the 1700’s.
Kkk
History is so fascinating! The information that one learns when you open your eyes to read! and ears to hear! Pride in one self is a good thing!
History is so fascinating….when you’re not in school.
I just found out last week I'm of Scots-Irish descent. My 4th great-grandfather left county Tyrone in Northern Ireland (as seen in the video) in 1865, and landed at Ellis Island. He and his wife had 4 children during a 6 year period in New Jersey before moving to Upper Canada (Hamilton, Ontario) to join his brothers and start the largest pottery manufacturing business in the colony.
I'm an Ulster Scot in Northern Ireland.
There is no other ethnicity I would rather be 🇬🇧
@@geordiewishart1683 well said brother
How do you know they hadn't gone from England to N Ireland?
Much of American southern culture comes from the Celts of Britain, especially the Scots and the Scots-Irish
Yes but the English ancestry in the South is more prevalent than the Scottish.
and the Irish.
@@billnye7323 No not really
@@JohnnyRep-hz5qh Nope
@@billnye7323 I haven't seen any people with English ancestry in Southern states, saw only Scottish or Scot-Irish ancestry. I am from NY, there are lots of people with Irish and Italian ancestry
I'm of Ulster-Scot heritage, on both parents' sides, with my earliest ancestor immigrating from the Ulster Plantation via Scotland in 1690 via the Chesapeake Bay, settling in what is now West Virginia.
@fishaddict2........type in....ulster-scots came to america. the first american census taken in 1790-jeanette holland.......... the ulster -scots usually settled where their earlier scottish kin had settled in amerikay.
I am definitely Scots-Irish on my Dad’s side: Parker (maiden name)/Brown/Anderson. My Scots-Irish ancestors settled all over the NC & TN mountains. Great video!
I’m an Armstrong, I’m a proud Scots/Irish here in the mountains of Arkansas.
Armstrongs were od Saxon origins,lived on the Scots englsh border James the first kicked the border outlaws out and sent them to Ulster
armstrong is a border family from northumberland famous as reivers.........basically armed people who crossed the english scots border and fought and stole animals females and anything of value
Very interesting, I always wondered where those terms came from and now I know. Thanks for your content!
Well, maybe you don't really. I don't believe red bandanas were actually the source of our current usage of 'Redneck'.
Michael Obama’s husband is Scott-Irish AND Ol’ Lizzy Warren is Native American 😉
I do! Ewing descendant here. First migrated to Pennsylvania in late 1600s from Castle Stirling Scotland.
Me too!!! How cool is that? ❤
I'd never before heard nor read of the red scarves being worn in Scotland. That was new to me. My direct ancestor was a Covenanter in Scotland, and is recorded in the Scottish Covenanters Index. His son came to America in 1730. It's said he went first to Northern Ireland, but I can find no record him there.
Keep looking.
Northern Ireland was established in May 1921 .... north of Ireland?
Thank you for this video. I searched for the origin of the term 'hillbilly', and your video appears to be much more careful and better sourced (David Hackett Fisher ;))than more mainstream & prominent channels. May you receive many more subscribers~
Scots- Irish here, from different lines. My favorite story is the Boggs family who came from Scotland via Ireland. Originally Livingstones, with a castle surrounded by peat bogs, they ran afoul of the British and went into hiding in Ireland , changing their name to Boggs.They were there for a a couple of hundred years before heading to the colonies in the 1700s. By the mid 19th C, they were in Iowa. That's where I grew up.
But those aren't the only Scots-Irish in my family line, which means that I have quite a few traits handed down to me, of which I am proud. It is well worth remembering what makes up the character of the original American patriots and how that influences us to this very day.
In what way ran foul of the British. They are usually in the same corner.
Yeah as an Ulster Scot still resident in Ulster whose ancestors came from the same stock as settled in the Appalachians the test acts against Presbyterianism did drive our folk across Atlantic but the were relatively quickly settled for political purposes and, I gather, practically ignored in the colonies.
The main enemy to us back then (and still is, politically) was the Irish. Both Westminster and Ulster Scot interest converged on that.
Though, loyal as we may still be to the Crown here, a healthy distrust of the treasonous scum in Westminster has never dissipated. See the Home Rule crisis of 1912.
You just answered a big question for me about what happened to the Livingstone’s in my own family line! Now I can search the surname Boggs for more clues.
Your ancestor dogs should have been sterilized and kept in crates
I discovered your channel some time ago, dont remember from what channel I came from. But that for sure is an interesting origin to the words.
My Green ancestors were forced out of Scotland to Ireland by the English. Then they were forced out of Ireland to Pennsylvania, Louisiana, and finally Texas.
The two other explanations I've heard was that the red neck was a result of doing outdoor work such as farming, logging, road work, hunting etc. and getting a sunburned neck. White collar workers have always put down folks engaged in physical work. The other more recent explanation was the term red neck comes from the skin irritation of barbers clippers while getting a close brush cut or crew cut, both clearly associated with the rural poor in post WWII America. I'm not necessarily convinced of either of these stories but that's what I've heard.
Thanks, always interesting to hear other interpretations 😊.
Could be that the red hankerchiefs celebrated the "red necks" of working class people, although how red (sun burnt) can your neck get, if you work in a mine?
My Daddy always said Scotch-Irish " and some English" because our name comes from a town called Pilsdon in Dorsett, near where the Magna Carta was signed. However, my Mother's side would point out that the first family to build a cabin on the west side of the mountains were the Moravian (Pennsylvania Dutch) Harmons,
my grandparents on my dad's side where both from county down in ulster, both came to the US as young adults.
I’m a Stuart and honored my father was Scottish.
I am going to point out another factor that gave rise to the migration of so many Scot’s Irish to the USA, to achieve the plantation of Ireland, people were given a 99 year tenancy at a very reduced rent and these tenancies were coming to an end in the late eighteenth century giving rise to far greater rents,in many cases up to 20 times the previous amount. The fact that they were able to get free hold land in the newly created states for nothing was a very attractive option for many, religious freedom was all very well but economic factors usually have far more relevance to most people and the Scot’s Irish were no exception. My ancestors included seven brothers all born Presbyterian to a tenant on a Presbyterian estate, 3 rented land from a church of Ireland landlord and became c of I, 2 remained tenant’s on the Presbyterian estate and remained Presbyterian and 2 became tenants of a Roman Catholic and became Roman Catholics. Economic expediency in action!
Thanks for this informative video. I have Scots-Irish heritage (40% per DNA tests). I saw the name Rodgers in the list. That's one of my ancestral names. And indeed, my Scots-Irish ancestors were Prebyterian and settled in Pennsylvania, though some moved further west. The video was really interesting and taught me some things that I didn't know, so I appreciate it!
Glad it was helpful!
My condolences for you upon hearing your diagnosis
Scot-Irish on my mama’s side, English on my dad’s. The inner turmoil is real!
Yes and I don't like it that it's okay to discriminate against white people from the country but it's not okay to discriminate against no one else on social media
i do! last name is Richardson and I can trace my heritage back to the late 1700's in the middle TN area and still live on a portion of the original farm homestead.
Thank you for this great video on Scots-Irish Americans ( Scots Irish Presbyterians ) which comprises 1/3 of my ancestry. There is also an untold story of the Scots-Irish who settled in Ontario, Canada and those that came "after" the American Revolution up to the 1880's and settled directly in the USA.
Scots-Irish descendant from the Ozarks of Arkansas. Ancestors came here from Northern Ireland in 1698. Settled in North Carolina first and fought in the War of Independence. The Scots-Irish help hand Washington his first victory. The Battle of King's Mountain. The Hessian was right, it was a Scots-Irish rebellion.
"Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by Thomas Sowell. The collection, published in 2005, explores various aspects of race and culture, both in the United States and abroad. The first essay, the book's namesake, traces the origins of the "ghetto" African-American culture to the culture of Scotch-Irish Americans in the Antebellum South."
Wonderful video! Please do more videos on the Scots! Thank you😊
I'd heard of a connection between the term "redneck" and the bandanas worn by miners during the Blair Mountain strike, but I had no idea the term went further back! Very interesting.
This was such a good production. Loved the clogging at the end!
I hail from clan Armstrong, 1745- 46 6xggrandfather arrived here, settled in Pa near Lancaster. Spread out from there.
Scots were instrumental in settling Nova Scotia in Canada although ironically, the province with the greatest number of Scots descendants is British Columbia. Probably due to the large number of Scots associated with the Northwest and Hudson Bay companies.
Also - people moved West. My Scottish relatives came out in the early 1900s to BC directly. And many Nova Scotians no doubt moved on " down the road"...
@@veenamishra8950Right! A distant relative from British Columbia or Alberta now living in Texas found her Easterm Ontario ancestors. The Ontario founding father came from the Orkneys (Stromness) and probably was let go by the Hudson Bay Company after the HBC merged with the Northwest Company out of Montreal in 1821 so he moved to Ontario (Madoc & Marmora area). His father definitely worked for the HBC in what is now Quebec. His wife came from Ireland probably County Fermanagh (Ireland). They were New Church or Presbyterian. Are O'Donnell and Keyes Scotch-Irish family names?
God bless our American cousins.
Wow.. I always had been told/thought that
redneck came from our sunburned necks from hoeing in fields. Interesting.
My family name is Carroll and one of my ancesters was named McHenry.
Interesting. I always guessed the term redneck came from the southern farmer’s’ sun burned necks.
Up here in NW 'Warshington' State, my 'Tarheel' Abel, Stewart, and Moore ancestors came from Scotland and Dublin via post-Revolutionary 'Ohia', 'Kanetuck', 'Missura' (Civil War), and Montana (Plains Wars). Phew...quite a trip over the last 300 years!
My great grandmothers name was Mcnaier and they were from Ballina mayo county.
My maiden name is Aikman, and my paternal side have lived in Arkansas forever. A relative has traced us back to Scotland before the revolutionary War
Yes... and DAMN proud!!!
Nice job!
You used a photo of hillbilly Jim. He is a man from Kentucky that used a kinda bad term to make a decent living for his family. He is a wonderfully humble and honestly gentle man. Please at least give him his due and honor if you won't remove him from your video.
Thank you for your message, I will edit the description to include his name. I appreciate the information : )
indeed
The term red-neck in America anyways came from the fact that in the 1930s when Prohibition was law, many moonshiners would go out into public and wear a red scarf 🧣 or bandanna around their necks. This would advertise to other people that they sold moonshine, and they would have to take you back to a still site or a speakeasy in order to do so.
Your Uncle Jesse and Boss Hogg types would make moonshine at their still sites, then at evening time would throw on a red scarf 🧣 or bandanna to let workers know that the next batch was ready.
Interesting to know that the red scarf 🧣 was a Presbyterian sign of rebellion as well.
My grandfather ran a speakeasy in the back end of grocery/gas station at night after regular business hours were over. Sadly he died in 1970 and never got to see how the Dukes honored his legacy. 😅😅😅
My Scots-Irish ancestral line is small compared with the rest, but it is linked to the McKees of western Pennsylvania.
Alexander McKee?
Keith Hernandez's mother was Scots-Irish.
Aye i am a RANKIN very good video thanks.
Very interesting video. The video's end made me think we need more dancing and less hating.
I have a sprinkling of Viking but it seems like it came when the Vikings invaded Scotland and England. Lots of Welch too!
At least one ancestor from Scotland went to Maryland by way of Ulster in 1720. Last name Sharpe of the Clan Stuart of Bute. My surname ancestor came to Pennsylvania in early 1700s, Keever of the Clan MacIver.
My 4th GGrandmother was Helen Sharp born around 1763 at Auchterarder Scotland.Duncan Pitkeathly.
Interesting how many of the world conflicts were about religion. Our pastor was teaching a history class many years ago. I noted that it all made sense and I had never heard this version before. The public schools in the US had cleansed the teaching of religion and thereby made conflicts to appear useless and incomprehensible. I never liked history before.
US history teachers never want to talk about all the English crimes against other peoples
Thomas Sowell. He is a valuable resource.
You neglect to mention that many 'Scots'-Irish were in fact English--and not just northern English. Why this Anglophobic omission?
I didn't mean any disrespect. I just emphasized the Scots because of the subject of the video. Promise I'm not an anglophobe - I have ancestors from Scotland and England and have a lot of respect for both.
Lou Duva. No, that’s not the case. She was specifically referring to the Presbyterians who came from Scotland in the plantation of Ulster. The English who came during the plantation were Anglican, later called church of Ireland.
It’s because the majority of Ulster Scots/scotch Irish are lowland Scottish descent not northern English. Of the people sent to Ulster around 4/5 were lowland Scots and 1/5 northern English.
@@NorthSonand all settler colonists.
@@NorthSonsource?... I made it up bro
Half Irish, half Dutch here :) My great great great etc grandfather was a Scots-Irishman ironically of the surname Green (despite being a hillman's son), but hilariously, somewhere along the way he had a (grand)daughter, who married into a southern Irish descended family (Although my surname is in reference to a Norse god, written in Gaelic, and then Anglicized so your guess is as good as mine there!)
Too bad Oduma didn't live or reign like he care anything about the Scot-Irish. His 2+ minutes speech in this vid is puff.
Obama has no Scots Irish ancestry. His mothers people were native Gaelic Irish from Moneygall, County Offaly in Leinster.
@@Oluinneachain He likely has Welsh. Unfortunately, we share some of the same ancestors.
Outstanding video!!!
Glad you liked it!
An excellent video. A couple of minor things though in the pronunciation. We would pronounce it “cuh-venanters” not “co-venanters” and it’s “Jack-o-bites” not “Jake-o-bites”. Great work though.
I could've done without the Obama clip.
And what a wonderful world it would be if you didn’t share your hate.
Your man Obama created enough divisiveness in the US.
Where can I find that map of the Ulster plantations that you featured? My G G G GRANDPA came from Larne.
Going all the way back to the Lords of Panmure and and of Carnoustie who fought with William the Conqueror and were awarded lands in Scotland, centuries later via Ulster and all here prior to 1776. A feisty bunch ready to fight the Brits once more.
I heard that red neck, is associated with oil drilling. They need to wrap a chain around the nape of the neck, and pull on it to start the drilling
The two other explanations I've heard was that the red neck was a result of doing outdoor work such as farming, logging, road work, hunting etc. and getting a sunburned neck. White collar workers have always put down folks engaged in physical work. The other more recent explanation was the term red neck comes from the skin irritation of barbers clippers while getting a close brush cut or crew cut, both clearly associated with the rural poor in post WWII America. I'm not necessarily convinced of either of these stories but that's what I've heard.
Stewart, from KY.
My last name is Skinner from when the Scottish Macgregor clan became outlaws and changed their name, to what is now mine.
Skinner!
@@nordscan9043 whattup bro
@@SicSemperTyrannis-333 Skinner: Oh superintendent Chalmers!
, Lots of MacGregors used their Mothers maiden name during these times.
I'd heard that the term "redneck" came from the red bandana worn around the neck by coal miners, but I did not know the origins beyond that. Very interesting. Well done
Mcspaddens here
W history lesson
@4:15. “ billy boys” ? … For Billy Boys see Billy Fullerton and the Klu Klux Klan.
Great video! I hope one day to make it to Kilmarnock, the ancestral home of Clan Boyd. Confido!
I'm a moore ,but here in Appalachia it is pronounced moe'wer.😂
I have scott’s Irish heritage, mostly English little bit of danish, and a little welsh as well
great video, my last name is Scottish although I'm not sure if my ancestors came from Ulster or just Scotland
Your ancestors are Riphat (Paphlagonians)
Well the inhabitants of Ulters before the 17th century were mostly native/mere Irish. The Borderers from nothern England and the lowlands of southern Scotland who religiously were mostly Presbyrtarians, Calvanists, and coventers came over in the 17th century for the most part to Ulster.
I think hillbilly is related to the phrase "billy goat" because male goats have long unkempt "beards" as did male hill folk. Not that this was the source, but the disparaging imagery kept it in use.
It definitely shoulda had an impact lol I love it
Most nicknames and now unflattering slurs in the US and Canada were British slang or English slurs against Northern and Irish British cousins they hated. The original meanings lost here:
Redneck, Jay (as in jaywalking), Cracker (as in Craic or boisterous talk), Hillbillies, Bumpkin, Hick...
@@STho205 Complete bollocks. Jaywalking is a completely American offence and has never been a crime in Britain. Just look at our parking laws to see how lax they are from the US.
Crack or 'craic' as you isn't even a Gaelic term and wasn't even known in Ireland before the 80s. It is a Northern English/Scottish expression for banter.
The Hillbillys thing might have a ring of truth but is probably more an onomatopoeia expression than anything else. And Bumpkin is just an all round English language term for hick and rural derogatory term. You're more than likely to be cslled a bumpkin from Somerset or Norfolk than Antrim or Down - you'd be more commonly called by the unflattering Gaelic derived name 'culchie' if you hailed from the rural parts of those counties or any other rural part of Ireland.
I know. Some individuals' ancestors were Jacobite.
Ulsterman here. Neither Scottish or Irish.
No surrender!
Yes I do have Scoth-Ulster Irish Ancestry. The Family Sir-Names from my Paternal Grandmother's side of the Family were not on that list you showed. They were the Anthonys and the McMins.
Surnames
My Paternal Grandfather x 4 is Grandfather Col. George Stewart
Fun fact there are more Irish in America than there are Irish in all of Ireland a little over 34 million Americans have Irish ancestry.
there are more Scottish in the USA than Scottish itself
A little heavy on the Obama take. 😒 Irrelevant history to take up so many minutes in a short video.
The context was his visit to Belfast to bolster the Good Friday Agreement. So he was addressing both contemporary Scots Irish and native Gaels living in Northern Ireland . He graciously acknowledged his indigenous Gaelic Irish ancestry without ever exploiting it for political purposes.
I am indigenous Alaskan and North Carolina Redneck. The inner conflict has resolved within me. Howa’a Mr President
Nice video except for the Obama segment. I was aware of some of this material and one of my favorite Aunts was born Lillian Hatfield, yes one of those Hatfields and she married a John Bell. I was born a Bell and baptized Presbyterian.
They had another relative. His name was Jack Dempsey.
Had no idea
My McDonald and McCalister ancestors were Ulster Scotts.
According to my DNA test I have 25% Scottish and 12% Irish blood. Even though there is also 44% England/NW Europe I guess I qualify a little bit as Scots-Irish especially since I was born in Butler, Pa. 20 miles north of Pittsburgh where the Ulster Scots settled. I also lived in western PA. until 1973 and still have some of that West Pa. accent/dialect that surfaces.
What does the remaining 19% consist in?
Don't you think these different kinds of blood have integrated into one by now?
In other words you are an American.
You wouldn't convince anyone in Scotland or Ireland, I can assure you of that.
@@SuperMikado282 Yes, I am an American first and foremost. I don’t need to be schooled on that. I wasn’t really trying to convince anyone in Scotland or Ireland of anything. Because I was adopted and know nothing about my birth parents, doing my DNA gave me good insight as to some of my ancestors. Why would you care anyway except to be a troll?
@@scotthutchens1203 Why did you post this information ?
@@SuperMikado282 Same reason as anyone else does. Just to put it out there, those who find it interesting is a good thing, those who don’t, what do I care-it’s a mystery I’m figuring out like others in my situation-do I need a reason? No, I don’t. 🧐🤨 At this point it’s all I have, and even if I can claim only 25% Scottish, 12% Irish, Sweden/Denmark 11%, Germanic Europe 5%, Norway 2%, Jewish 1%, it’s knowing something and it is what it is. Plus the fact of where I was born-close to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I definitely have strong physical traits of British Isles but specifically Scottish/Irish. Also, DNA figures evolve the more people join what ever DNA company one is with. I’ve seen it change from 63% Great Britain, 24% Scottish/Irish /Wales in May 2019 to the more well defined figures they’ve arrived at now. Part of all this searching comes from the fact that when my parents were at the adoption proceedings in the mid 50’s the judge, adoption agent and lawyer remarked that the real birth parents had Irish names. So since the later 80’s I’ve wondered but never did anything about it. You weren’t allowed to see the records at that time and that’s the way it was on and off through the years at least in Pennsylvania. I have a PA. state form that I can fill out now that should give me the birth names but they could be dead by now. Hopefully, children could be alive but even with Facebook they could be hard to find.
Interesting, mine didn't differentiate between Scottish, Irish, and English.
The only reason I even know of Scots-Irish roots is due to the surname McClunge (a prominent Gaelic name), though I likely have more English ancestry (including a Norman/French surname).
Those lines go back to early colonization of the Americas, and is hard to track through colonial migrations West.
I've had better luck tracing my Mexican ancestry due to the Catholic baptism/marriage records and the prominence of the Tlaxcaltecos indians in Northern Mexico/New Spain. It's even leading to the Spanish admixture in the 1800's, which goes back to the 1560's Lozano line from Galicia, Spain.
I don't know much about my Greek ancestry, beyond having a few 4th cousins living in Crete and Athens.
U left out ALOT of last names. Mine for example which is Scottish name given to “people who live beside the bend of a river”. Which really describes my peoples, before I even knew that’s where my last name came from I already owned land beside a river and so does most my family with the name. Seems it’s just in our DNA to be drawn to the rivers. And the old folk of my family that’s mostly died off now all played bluegrass music. I still got a cd with their own original bluegrass music they played that somebody in my family somehow got it on a computer from the original record and put on cd for us but it’s scratched up now 😢
but you don't say what your name is . . .
@@grittykitty50 I kinda did, but that was my point to NOT give out my name lol
Be wary of those who say SCOTCH IRISH! .... It's pronounced SCOTS IRISH! (Scotch is a drink....)
The list of Scottish names is poor to say the least. Robinson is not a Scottish name,but Robertson is.Not listed. Yet the Clan dominated Perthshire for several hundred years. As a Robertson I am infuriated when I am called Robinson (apologies to them)
Robinson is an English surname (mainly Northeastern England) and is very prevalent in the deep south.
How did they *become* frozen chosen?
I had to stop watching when Obama started running his mouth.
You won’t be missed.
"There's no other Irish like Barack Obama "
Ye can keep him he''s definitely nay Irish
His mother’s people’s are, therefore he is. And he was most welcome here when he visited his ancestral village.
Hahaha
Blair (my maiden name) arrived in 1830’s from Londonderry, McChord, Johnston, Henderson, Tyrell, Glann, and Robinson (7 generations back was a fifer in the Revolutionary War). According to 23 and Me, my genes are 93% British Isles - and I would say a large percentage of that is Scots-Irish. So fun!
Sir William Alexander 1st Earl of Stirling. Is my ancestor
Your list left off the name Barlow. 🏴
no Kinnebrew on your list, nor Kinneborough, nor Killibrew. Someday I'll trace my family, but it seems to have been Scots-Irish and to have come to the U.S. a long time ago.
It's spelt Kinniburgh in Scotland. It's a lowland Scotland/Northern English surname😊
@@jmillar71110 yes the internet did trace to that spelling. I suspect my ancestors were hardscrabble farmers like most who came to the US. funny about all the spelling changes though.
@@bbbartolo different spellings are common in old records in the UK and Ireland, even for the same families. I've had the same bother myself while doing ancestry. Folks would usually just spell surnames how they sounded over here as it wasn't compulsory to go to school until late 19th century, and even then it was only upto age 10 lol😊
@@jmillar71110 reminds me of all the spellings of Shakespeare, including Shakspere, his own signature. The variations must make research hell but it's somehow enjoyable
Compare Obama's speaking to the Orange.
Not so 🇬🇧 as the establishment 👑 tells us
They were persecuted in Europe, found religious freedom in America, and started persecuting everyone with a different or no religion since then.
George W Bush has mainly English ancestry which hails from the county of Essex in England, although he has some Irish & welsh others aswell.
He's very mixed
Not really .not any different when anyone searches their lineage which can go back centuries Bush is anglo-saxon name from Essex meaning East Saxons from Saxony
McCurdy/ Macurdeigh, My ancestors settled on the western panhandle of Florida in the late1700s. They arrived in Charleston SC, then moved to Santa Rosa County, Florida. We have many "cousins" and are proud of our Scots/Irish blood. We had traced that they were from the Isle of Butte, Scotland before they arrived in Northern Ireland. My genealogy DNA is strongly British Isles, not specifically Irish, But England.
I don't buy the King William theory. My hillbilly relatives' ancestors were Jacobites.
Many southern Americans claim Scotch-Irish descent. But the reality is if they do a DNA test, most of their ancestry will turn out to be England with smaller amounts of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. The Scotch-Irish were mostly people from England, the lowlands of Scotland, and French Huguenots. And more than likely, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway will show up in their DNA, which were the true Vikings.
Uh, no. I've seen Appalachians take tests with almost all Scottish, and I've seen them score a quarter Irish, so you can't speak for all people like you know it all.
I am Irish and Scottish but not Scotch-Irish. Ancestors settled in Virginia then Eastern Kentucky.
Be careful. Those English guys, who always show up under these clips, will tell you that you're really just English.