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To: Tijeras_Slim

My family on both sides has been in Florida since the 1700s. they did not come straight to Florida tho. They came from the Western Islands of Scotland to North Carolina then to Florida.

I once saw a 1741 census of the Island of Colonsay and the names were exactly the same as all my friends and school mates in Walton County, FL. There were even several names I did not know were Scottish such as “Blue” or “Currie”. Both common in my hometown.


18 posted on 05/15/2013 3:53:23 PM PDT by yarddog (Truth, Justice, and what was once the American Way.)
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To: yarddog

Currie is a very common name in Eastern Canada. Most of Canada’s early settlers were either French or Scottish; most of our English settlers were Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution. Prior to the 18th century most of the English here were transients working the fur trade.


66 posted on 05/15/2013 8:25:31 PM PDT by Squawk 8888 (True North- Strong Leader, Strong Dollar)
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