Fine additions to our knowledge and discussion, Jack.   Thanks.  
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  Subject: Re: The Highland Clearances: Cromwellian Settlement


  I'd like to add another element to the mix of reasons that rinsed so many Scots through Ireland. 

  Before the clearances and, perhaps, before some of the bad deeds by Perfidious Albion mentioned by Paul, Scots (and Englishmen) were indeed encouraged to move into northern Ireland to take up land left behind by Irish Catholics killed, chased south, or emigrating entirely in the face of Cromwell's military sacking of the Island.  In one of the earlier uses of the word, this was commonly referred to as "plantation." 

  Departure from Ireland then also stemmed from a number of causes: including Presbyterians feeling the heat from the Church of England; adventurers lured by the New World; those left behind by periodic crises in the wool and linen trades; etc..  I believe that many from each category took advantage of the indenturing system that permitted emigration with little or no up-front funds.

  Like so many of us, nearly all of those sides (and most of the periods) are represented in my family history.

  Jack Fallin

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