Good Morning to all from California where its hot and windy—high of 93 today with desert winds. I suppose I should complain but…

The Adams Family

I forgot to mention something yesterday and that is there is a high probability that John and Elizabeth (Hughlings) Adam’s ancestors were from Scotland.

I don’t want to speculate on who they might have been, and there are numerous family genealogists working on their lineage, however most attach them to Adams families that live in Scotland. There is a good indicator for that. They were living in and were married in Northern Ireland, where the population is 95% or more Catholic. They were married in the Protestant Church of Ireland in Dublin. There were so many Scots living in Northern Ireland that they eventually become known as the “Ulster Scots.” Read about their history from this Wikipedia article:

“The Ulster Scots (Ulster-Scots: Ulstr-Scotch; Irish: Albanaigh Uladh or Uladh-Albanaigh) are an ethnic group in Ireland, found mostly in the Ulster region and to a lesser extent in the rest of Ireland. Their ancestors were mostly Protestant Lowland Scottish people, many being from the “Border Reivers” culture. These people migrated to Ireland in large numbers with the Plantation of Ulster, a planned process of colonization which took place under the auspices of James VI of Scotland and James I of England on land confiscated from members of the Gaelic nobility of Ireland who fled Ulster.

Ulster Scots are largely descended from colonists from Galloway, Ayrshire, and the Scottish Borders Country, although some descend from people further north in the Scottish Lowlands and the Highlands.

Ulster Scots emigrated in significant numbers to what is now the United States and all corners of the then-worldwide British Empire Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the British West Indies, and to a lesser extent to Argentina and Chile.[citation needed] Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) is a traditional term for Ulster Scots who later emigrated to what is now the United States.”

I’m confident that Adams family genealogists in Ireland and Scotland will solve this lineage, but I’m not ready to “join the fray!”