Hello, Everyone. I am new to the list, but have already been very impressed by the quality of information on the Wigtownshire web pages. What a superb job of making information available. It's an enormous contribution. I'll tell you what I know about our family and hope that someone will have more to tell us. Joseph Scott, born 1821-1824 in Ireland (that is a recent very big surprise, courtesy of the Wigtownshire on-line 1851 census), died in Glasserton, buried in Glasserton Kirkyard 27 April 1898. He seems to have immigrated to Glasserton with a brother John and a sister Martha. Joseph also arrived with his wife, Agnes Whitby, also buried in Glasserton Kirkyard, also born Ireland, died 27 April 1895. They came with one child, Margaret, at their arrival (between 1841 and 1845). They had 5 other children that I am aware of, born in Glasserton. They are John, Thomas, Martha, Ann Chalmers, Joseph. This last one was born 2 May 1856. He emigrated to Cardiff, Wales, married, and died there in 1906. He was my husband's grandfather. My husband's father was only 4 at the time of his father's death, but he always knew that the family had lived at Drumoddie Farm (South Drumoddie, to be precise). My husband's father eventually (we don't know when) emigrated to Canada and then to the U.S. Thus, my husband grew up American. It's very moving to know more about the lives that were behind us. Now there is a new country in the mix--Ireland. We have been fortunate enough to have visited Glasserton with my husband's first cousin, son of another Scott who was also a son of Joseph. He, too, was born in Cardiff, but moved to England. Some Glasserton residents--the Millar family--were kind enough to tell us about the area and to treat us like visiting royalty! Mrs. Millar's father knew of Drumoddie and, even at his advanced age, rode with us to show us the area. We saw that there were no buildings remaining from the mid-19th century. We would be most interested in knowing anything about the farms from that time. Joseph Scott and his son Joseph were agricultural labourers--ploughman, as we understand. We wonder what the farms were like, how big they were, who owned them, etc. We would, of course, also be interested in knowing anything else about this Scott family. I haven't yet determined if other members of the family are buried in Glasserton, or if they emigrated, or what. Perhaps someone will recognize this family as their own. I assume that they were Scots-Irish from the Protestant areas, as they were buried in Glasserton Kirkyard. Is that a correct assumption, i.e. Roman Catholics would not have been buried there? We don't know very much about the Scottish presence in Ireland, but we do have a friend here who is very knowledgeable on the topic. Their immigration seems to correspond to the beginning of the potato famine. I, too, have Irish ancestors who went directly to New York at about that time. It is possible that mine were from County Cavan, but I'm not sure. They were Catholic. Life was difficult, wasn't it? They did what they had to do to survive. Thank you all for your interest and your help, Lynn in Florida, USA -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.441 / Virus Database: 268.17.36/681 - Release Date: 2/11/2007 6:50 PM