On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 04:46:25 GMT, Fred J. McCall
wrote:

Seems my last name was shared by a fairly large number of folks in the
county, from the Sheriff on down, and that they had something of a
reputation for standing together against pretty much everyone else.

Pretty much standard North American Scotch-mist jockaramic mythology.
Strange how nobody celebrates the mass of Scottish immigration to
North America, which consisted of economic migrants with little or no
Robin Hoodised retrospective anti-authoritarian posturing. But then
it's not quite as entertaining to discover the single Scots ancestor
(amongst the millions of less romantic ancestors, such as English,
German, Lithuanian or second-generation American) was a teenage
indentured servant and not Rob Roy.

Gavin Bailey

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