Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
This is a consolidated reprint of two pamphlets by Mr. David Dobson that shed light on an additional 1,100 Irish men and women and their families who emigrated to North America between roughly 1775 and 1825. The volume thereby adds to the list of 1,000 men and women compiled by Mr. Dobson in three earlier pamphlets in this series. The persons named in Irish Emigrants in North America, Parts Four and Five, were found primarily in contemporary newspapers in Canada and the United States.
Synopsis
For this book, Mr. Dobson combed through more than forty manuscript collections and published works to arrive at a list of 2,500 Scots who settled in the Baltic. Arranged alphabetically, the entries furnish the individual's name with variants, a place of residence in Eastern Europe, the date of the record, and its source. Given the widely disparate character of the subject matter, one may also find a reference to the individual's place of origin in Scotland, occupation, relationships to other persons named (i.e., parent, spouse, offspring), membership in a fraternal organization, etc. Spanning a period of 300 years, Mr. Dobson's ground-breaking collection of Scots in the Baltic may just produce the ancestral clue to your Scottish heritage in the last place you were expecting to find it.