Hi Janet, Yes, I agree, Albion's Seed is a great book. I am doing British Isles research on both mine and my husbands lines, so bought the book several years ago. I would imagine that quite a few of us on the list have Ulster Scot ancestors, since many of our ancestors came to Lawrence Co., from areas in North Carolina [Cummins/Kimmons], Tennessee and Kentucky where there were large populations of Ulster Scots. Also, possibly Pennsylvania and Ohio, like my Nickel line. I don't have any Sextons among my lines, so had never given it any thought, but I am surprised to learn that Sexton is an Irish surname. According to MacLysaght's The Surnames of Ireland, it is "Intimately associated with Limerick. It is rarely of English origin in Ireland". Fortunately that narrows the locale down for you. Happy researching, Sharon Ford .----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 1:00 PM Subject: Re: [MOLAWREN-L] Irish plague of leprechauns > In a message dated 5/30/2003 11:58:12 AM Pacific Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > > > If anyone is interested in reading material about the Scots Irish, there are > > a number of books on the market, most are published by Genealogical > > Publishing Co. of Baltimore, MD. I own a number of books, and would be > > happy to share my bibliography with those who are interested. > > > Hi Sharon, > > I haven't read your post carefully, but am very interested in the Ulster > compilation underway, as I have some of "those" folks. > > With respect to sources, I would recommend (on the recommendations of many > others): Albion's Seed: Four British Folkways in America > by <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books%26fiel d-author=Fischer%2C%20David%20Hackett/104-1610328-9461555">David Hackett Fischer</A> . It is at most major libraries, and while > criticized for over-generalizing (especially on the Scots-Irish angle, which is really > Anglo>Scots-Irish), it is a very good and popular and respected summary. As > one reviewer said, and I paraphrase, "if Fischer and generalized then we > historians couldn't pick it all apart with various details (and we live for doing > that as anyone knows)." > > My maiden name is Sexton, which appears (surprisingly) primarily as a surname > in Ireland, and my mother's line probably connects back to a Darby in Eastern > NC. However, as near as I can figure out my mother is a compilation of > early Anglo emigrants to MD/VA/NC, and later motley crew of Anglos/Welsh, about 50 > percent of whom emigrated from Ireland or Scotland, but only after two > generations from England. She has at least one known/documented German immigrant > (Couts/Kauts -- Nancy (Couts) Bird in in the 1850s Dade Co. census_, and > possibly more I'm working on.) > > Best Regards, > Janet Hunter >