Septs and Clans

[sentinel206]

I'm new here but not to Scottish history, archaeology, genealogy, heraldry etc. In contrast to many other Americans whose Scottish ancestry is several generations back, mine's easy. My last name is Cummings, from my father. My mother's maiden name was Frazier (Fraser.) So all my life it's been right there; I didn't have to search! Even finding my (Fraser) immigrant ancestor's lineage wasn't TOO difficult because he was a younger son of one of the Lords Lovat / Clan Chiefs who took part in "The 15" with the Aberdeenshire Frasers and got transported to the Carolinas. Some lines are easy and others are dead ends.

[macwilkin]

Don't forget that Cummings/Cumming can also be a Scottish surname! :-)

http://www.clancumming.us

Yours aye,

T.

[sentinel206]

Don't forget that Cummings/Cumming can also be a Scottish surname! :-)

http://www.clancumming.us

Yours aye,

T.

Yes, I know it is. My Comyn folks left Scotland and went to Ireland during Robert Bruce's infamous "Rape of Buchan." They ended up in Waterford, where there's still a lot of Cummins.

[Tarheel]

I don't find it odd that a lot of Scots, Welch, English and Irish eventually ended up in the Carolinas. As a native of the fine "Old North State" the climate and terrains are as close to the Homeland Isles as one could dream of (even for the socially awkward that faux pas the Crown's rules of yore.)