----- Original Message ----- From: Margaret Cameron To: DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 7:45 AM Subject: Sassanach My grandmother Cameron , even though she taught school in English, and her sisters spoke the Gaelic among themselves. I learned from her when I was very young all about the battle of Culloden and about the "Sassanachs", and how 'they' brutally treated my family(Camerons)who were 'exiled' in the 1770s. Even though two and one half centuries have passed since the 'forced' emigration of my family from Scotland, the imprint of the 'Sassanachs' brutality is still engrained in my mind, thus making it an improbability for me to become rather 'romantic' about 'Scotch' history, or loyal to a country which treated an 'alien' (Gaelic/Irish)society in such a savage way.. The word "Sassanachs"(Saxons) pertained to the lowlanders who lived in Scotland who were of 'English' extraction and to the 'English' from the country named England. The border clans were not 'Sassanachs'(English/lowlanders). There was an English migration to Scotland under the Kings Edward of England, thus, the term 'lowlander'. The border families were a mix of Norse/Celt. Margaret Cameron, Long Sault, Ontario