John: I can't help you with your Patterson line off hand, but am interested in what you are doing. At present I am writing a history of the Crooks families of western Pennsylvania of which there appears there were four principal familes. They all came over from Ulster and Scotland is a fairly short period of time ( early 1700's). We don't know if they were related, knew each other of what. We do know that the move for some was pre-planed. I would be interested to hear anything you might have run across during your researches mentioning Crooks and am posting this on the web for anyone else who might be interested. At this point I have about 240 pages edited and ready to go to the printer and hope to finish the project by the end of June. Gordon Crooks glcrooks@bcpl.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Patterson" <jwpatterson@verizon.net> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2005 3:11 AM Subject: [Sc-Ir] Britons and Scotch-Irish >I recently returned from London where I got a host of guffaws when I > mentioned to some Englishmen that I was actually more "British" than they. > Of course, none of them were aware that (King) Arthur was a great (or > fabled) warrior who was an arch-enemy of the English, but think rather he > is > an English hero. > > > > Since I haven't been able to identify the Ulster county of origin of my > Pennsylvania Pattersons, I have been studying the following: > > > > (1) Early Ulster Plantation Settlers > > (2) Pattersons/Patersons in Cunningham (near Ayrshire) > > (3) The British Kingdoms of Strathclyde, Rheged and Gododdin > > (4) And Cumbric (a Brythonic language related to Welsh) and an early > language of "Cumbria" > > > > Anyone interested in discussing / sharing information in these difficult > areas of research fel\el free to contact me directly. We can post > information that becomes interesting. > > > > John Patterson > > Great Bridge, Virginia > > > > jwpatterson@verizon.net > > > >