Is anybody here descended from Scottish families who left Scotland because of

[iverglas]

26. almost 100% English

(Whatever that is!)

One set of grandparents emigrated to Canada from England as children, separately with their parents, in the early 1900s.

Other set of grandparents immigrated as a couple with a child in the 1920s. So I'm only third-generation Canadian, and UK records are my thing. Been doing this a long time and have cracked literally countless cases for total strangers on the net. Some would say it's a hobby, some might say an obsession ...

I have one ... lemme work it out again ... I think it's grx4 grfather who shows in early English censuses (he lived a very long life) as born in "Ireland" c1770. Ireland. Well, he will forever be a mystery, I fear. Can't even find a marriage for him in England that might give a father's name, and his kids were all born in England well before registration so there's no mother's surname info.

That grx3 grfather of mine just made some kind of side trip to Scotland sometime between the early 1820s and late 1830s, was there for the 1841 census, then tripped on back home to go live in the workhouse for the next 20+ years. His son was in Kent by 1841, no idea what happened to his first wife or whether he had other children anywhere. But if we did not have these things to annoy us, we would have no fun at all. Fortunately, I have a few exceedingly annoying ancestors, so I'm set for life.