[Veto!]

Fascinating history you have.

Your Welsh ancestor may have fought against mine in the Civil War. as North Carolina was a Southern state.

My husband’s family were early settlers of N. Carolina, even have a tiny hamlet named for them. My father-in-law still had a summer cabin there when he was alive. I’ve never been there and perhaps the tiny hamlet has been absorbed or grown into a larger town...so I looked and found that it is. You can see it on YouTube:

Just go to YouTube and enter:
I’m visiting every town in NC - Dortches, North Carolina

Family name was Dortch.

[Myrddin]

I probably had family on both sides of the civil war. My Welsh great grandfather on the Union side. Likely the same for my Irish ancestor in New Jersey. My maternal grandfather's family was initially granted most of what is Norfolk, VA today as "Fanshaw's Bottom". The Scottish part of the family was in North Carolina.

[BamaBelle]

My family came south through North Carolina also and then South Carolina, Georgia, and into Bama. One side has a family home (built in 1800s) still standing in South Carolina in a town named after that side of family...maternal side was Scots men who married Dutch women. Paternal side goes back supposedly to Mayflower (Alden) and further back to the Sinclairs of Rosslyn Chapel fame. I’ve always thought it interesting that Oak Island has someone with my paternal name on it and they could also have connection to Sinclair...but it’s looking like Oak Island may turn out to be pirate treasure and not Knights Templar after all. I’m rambling...sry.