Many of my distant kinsmen and their neighbors migrated from the central North Carolina Piedmont to Clay County, Indiana, in the 1820s and 1830s. Such folk tended to move as a community and would have taken their dialect with them.
When we traced my father’s mother branch of the tree, we found that her grandparents were listed on the same ship’s manifest coming in at the port of GalVESton...Ironically there was also a listing of a person with the same name as my Great-grandfather on my mother’s side of the family.
We teased mom and dad that the reason that they look so much alike is they were related in the ol’ country.
It is my paternal grandfather branch that came from Ulster area. Sis went over to find any history. The church burnt in 1843 all record were lost. They came over in 1841. She did meet a gentleman the same age as my father with Gardner last name. She said he could have been dad’s double.
He also was able to explain that Jane and Jenny were the same person.