I cannot recall which list was asking why many emigrated to the West Indies...one of my rellies did... But, I stumbled on this site for Edinburgh, which looks interesting... Nothing of a specific genealogical nature as such, but lots on old Edinburgh and the like. http://www.scran.ac.uk/ Here, was found the following quote along one of the links: "Not all emigrants went voluntarily. Some Jacobite prisoners of war were sent to the West Indies as indentured servants after the 1745 rising, while Australia was originally a convict colony." My rellie was a Dr., so one can assume that he, for one, went to care for the "white" inhabitants of the islands, or the staffs/staves of the European land owners. Now, we cannot say that because of this quote all emigrés were "indentured servants," them may just as well have been legitimate emigrés ...or trying to stay one step ahead of the baillie!