[Little Bill]

They were a mixture of Scots and northern English and were Presbyterian.

I did some research and found that the Scots side of my family were originally English, Maxwell and that my sons Father in laws family were also English, Sandlin.

Both notorious Border Reviers.

[Pelham]

Yeah the fact that the ‘Scots Irish’ included some English lines cleared up something that I had wondered about. My paternal grandmother always insisted that her family, Stroud, was Scots Irish but the name is English and goes back to the Norman conquest. But I do have some Armstrong and Donald ancestors that were indeed Scots.