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bjrogg:
--- Quote from: Hawkdancer on April 11, 2020, 11:40:06 am ---You have to remember many folks were "exiled" for crimes like smuggling, sheep stealing, etc! Not everyone was an stellar citizen, war hero, or whatever!
Hawkdancer
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Yup more than a few black sheep out there from every generation. Like Jerry said. There’s a lot of things that are common place now, that could have got your head chopped off not so very long ago.
Bjrogg
DC:
My sis belongs to the local genealogy club and they are usually very excited when they find a murderer. The mother of a friend was doing her genealogy and happily so for about a year when she discovered that a long lost uncle was a murderer. She was so choked that she threw everything away and wouldn't talk about family ever again. No figuring how people are going to react. I guess it depends on the morality of the crime.
Strichev:
That's irredeemably extreme, ostracising someone because he found out some old family secret.
A few years ago my grandfather received a letter from the USA inquiring about someone whose name read like an anglicized version of his long deceased uncle's name. The uncle emigrated to Pittsburgh (he supposedly owned a store there) around the year 1900 (we don't know exactly when) and stayed in the USA until his death. As far as we knew he had no children. We emailed them all the info we had but received no reply. I suppose they got their information and didn't want any more trouble with us.
bushboy:
Im a maclean,my ancestors were products of the Highland clearances in Scotland after the defeat at Culloden at the hands of the English...my gggggggrand father left Scotland (moidart) and settled in Nova Scotia canada.there is a similar story on my mother's side..
Hawkdancer:
Sheep stealer, bounders, and brigands of all kinds! "And ye cannot go home to Ireland or even Scotland instead, ye cannot home to Ireland for the crown has a price on your head!" ( from a song I wrote "Ye cannot go home"). History isn't what we've been told! Darn!, we're cheerful today!
Hawkdancer
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