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The usage Scots-Irish developed in the late 19th century as a relatively recent version of the term. Two early citations include: 1) "a grave, elderly man of the race known in America as 'Scots-Irish '" (1870); [26] and 2) "Dr. Cochran was of stately presence, of fair and florid complexion, features which testified his Scots-Irish descent ...
This is a list of notable Scotch-Irish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants. The Scotch-Irish trace their ancestry to Lowland Scottish and Northern English people, but through having stayed a few generations in Ulster. This list is ordered by surname within section. To be ...
Scottish Americans or Scots Americans (Scottish Gaelic: Ameireaganaich Albannach; Scots: Scots-American) are Americans whose ancestry originates wholly or partly in Scotland. Scottish Americans are closely related to Scotch-Irish Americans , descendants of Ulster Scots , and communities emphasize and celebrate a common heritage. [ 8 ]
The second largest group were the Scottish-Americans, whose ancestors emigrated via Scotland directly, or via the predominately Scottish-descended Ulster Scots, or Scots-Irish, in Ulster. Most Scottish-Americans descended from the largely Scots-speaking Lowlands, and to a lesser extent from the largely Gaelic-speaking Highlands - between which ...
James Webb, U. S. senator, author of Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America (2004) Alexander White, politician from Virginia; Heather Wilson, 24th Secretary of the U.S. Air Force; Malcolm Wilson, 50th governor of New York; Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States; Henry A. Wise, Confederate brigadier general and governor ...
Pages in category "American people of Scotch-Irish descent" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 560 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The African American Irish Diaspora Network is an organization founded in 2020 that is dedicated to Black Irish Americans and their history and culture. Black Irish American activists and scholars have pushed to increase awareness of Black Irish history and advocate for greater inclusion of Black people within the Irish-American community. [232]
Self-reported numbers are regarded by demographers as massive under-counts, because Scottish ancestry is known to be disproportionately under-reported among the majority of mixed ancestry, [40] and because areas where people reported "American" ancestry were the places where, historically, Scottish and Scots-Irish Protestants settled in North ...