Quote Originally Posted by Canuck of NI View Post
Ulster Scots were originally transplanted to Northern Ireland, sometimes willingly, sometimes not, from the England-Scotland Border area where they had spent the previous centuries in one of the most violent places on earth.
Well, yes & no. Most of my own ancestors who were Ulster Scots I can trace to the Highlands (the few who weren't appear to be English).

Case in point: my McReynolds were of the name MacRanald in the Keppoch region. My ancestor Johne MacRanald/McReynold (an educated man who read & wrote in both Scots Gaelic & in English) fought as an officer for William's army on the continent, and then went on to Ulster, where he participated in the defense of Derry (one story is told that he gave another defender a beating for letting a rat escape during the seige!). He would later settle & die in Co. Tyrone (his stone house/fort & mill still stand there). His great-grandson would go on to fight in the American Revolution, being crippled for life at the battle of Camden.

Anyhow, my point in all this is to echo Todd's point (& that which you later acknowledged) is to let the 'uninitiated' know that not all Ulster Scots were from the Lowlands, which seems to be one of those "myths" that continues to live on to this day (like so much else that has been oft told about the Scots & the Irish ).

Apologies for any hijack of the threads topic.