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After 5 or 6 centuries of infighting, in the 17th century this community was dispersed, it had served its rather vague purpose in the history of man. Their trails led to Ireland, south into England proper, north into the Scottish highlands, to the U.S and Canada. From Pennsylvania, they went westward through the Cumberland Gap, then to the Wild West. Their brethren from Ireland joined them, particularly after the famine. Some went to Australia. Banishment, slavery and indenture were common practice in those days. In the U.S.A. they were known then as the Scotch/Irish and their strange dialects followed them.
Their names were mangled, chewed up, misspelled. Their descendants now number in the tens, possibly hundreds of millions. Maybe you recognize basic names such as Elliot, Armstrong, Nixon, Johnston, Stewart, Douglas, Scott, Maxwell and thousands of others, which still form the nucleus of our North American society today. If you want to find a surname, you'd better know historically where to look for its source. Those descending trails became widely dispersed, branching as a river to its estuary. The Library of Congress has many thousands of their genealogies.
Getting back to those "horse thieves", or the Unruly or Reiver Clans as they we were sometimes known, each clan usually had a nickname. Consider some of the following mostly Scottish Clan nick Names -- are these to be considered not only racial, but even family characteristics that prevail within those races?;
- The sturdy Armstrongs:
- The jingling Jardines:
- The gentle Johnstones (and Neilsons):
- The fiery MacIntoshes:
- The proud McNeills (and Seatons):
- The manly Morrisons:
- The worthy Watsons:
- The pudding Somervilles:
- The saucy Scotts:
- The haughty Hamiltons (and Humes):
- The gay Gordons:
- The lucky Duffs:
- The trusty Boyds:
- The wild McGraws (McGraths):
- The brave McDonalds and so on.
Or, consider the English clan war
cry:
A Fenwick, a Fenwick, a Fenwick;
500 Fenwicks came over the lea.
Sheep
Stealers
