since you asked, yes, my scots ancestors were (prolly) from the lowlands. the southern uplands. violent place, once: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Uplands#Culture …
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@hbdchick Southern Uplands is a bit different from the Lowlands. Celtic shepherds not Anglisn farmers just for starters. -
@PCOwen_a yup. i think the (my) clan originally came from the hebrides, too. that's the story, anyway. (^_^) -
@hbdchick Now Fishing predates farming. We settled coasts & rivers. The North Sea/Baltic is not the Atlantic coast and then there is the Med -
@PCOwen_a ancestors of modern brits prolly arrived *as farmers* in neolithic: http://www.unz.com/gnxp/almost-all-britons-might-have-arrived-with-the-neolithic/ … see here, too:http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1780/20132372 … -
@PCOwen_a the earlier hunter-gatherers (fishers) were prolly largely replaced. -
@hbdchick But the Western population followed the Atlantic from Spain. -
@PCOwen_a yup. but they brought their cows with 'em: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1780/20132372 … (^_^) - 1 more reply
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map (reformation in scotland in the lowlands): (cc.
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