Possible Scotland Trip!

**Hamish** · 11th December 06, 07:14 PM

Originally Posted by cessna152towser

Prestonfield House is on the outskirts of Edinburgh and has the bonus that the staff wear black kilts.

Supplied, I believe, by "21st Century Kilts"!

**auld argonian** · 11th December 06, 10:55 PM

Well, it's not like we're leaving next week...this is in the planning stages but it would be nice for the organization, which is international, to get out of the States for a change.

And please note: it's my wife that will be working, not me. I usually get enlisted as photo documentation guy on these trips but I'm strictly un-official....but, once again...any excuse!

Retro: the Scots in my family are/were Lattas. Lots of Lattas in Ayrshire and on the Isle of Arran but it appears that my forebearers went to Northern Ireland as part of the Plantation and the first one to cross the Atlantic was Young William (as opposed to Auld William...this is weird because there's something like 350 years between them...not like this guy was "junior" or anything) who married a woman named Elizabeth Jane Taylor and split Londonderry in 1750 to settle in New Jersey. Lots of lore about the marriage being opposed by one or both sets of parents and EJT being the daughter of either a minister or a rabbi (I personally love the rabbi possibility) and Young William getting written off by his dad, James. Apparently the move looked good to several of his brothers because they showed up in the succeeding ten years and the whole bunch slid down to Pennsylvania to do that Life, Liberty and Pursuit of Happiness thing.

Fortunately for me, one of the descendants who was an attorney in Denver around the 1930's spent a great deal of his time and money researching the genealogy...thus making it pretty easy for those of us here and now to access the information.

Best

AA