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David Dobson
In the 17th and 18th centuries, many Scottish soldiers serving in the Americas permanently settled in the British colonies in North America, Canada, and the Caribbean.
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This is the fifth installment (fourth book) in David Dobson’s Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825-1875, a series designed to compensate for the lack of official Scottish passenger lists…
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This is the second source book dealing primarily with the county of Argyll, and to a lesser extent the adjacent smaller counties of Dumbarton and Bute…. This volume also attempts…
Many artisans emigrated from English ports … however there were also French Huguenots, American Loyalists, and Jews there [in Jamaica] – Introduction.
The Plantation of Ulster by Scots in the 17th century meant the migration and settlement of thousands of Scots in Ireland during that period. Most settlers were from the Scottish…
This book identifies residents in the adjacent counties of Dundee and Angus, as well as emigrants from there, between 1800 and 1850. Dundee and Angus now form distinct Scottish administrative…
This consolidated edition brings together all ten Parts of David Dobson's series, Irish Emigrants in North America. Data covers the 17th through the mid-19th centuries. One comprehensive index to all…
The Grampian Highlands lie in north-east Scotland, from Aberdeenshire to eastern Perthshire. In the 17th century the region was controlled by clans loyal to the Stuart kings.
Memory Trees a collection of hand-drawn family trees created expressly for the scrapbook hobbyist. It begins with suggestions for choosing the design of your family tree, using purely aesthetic considerations…
The transformation of Belfast from a small village to a significant city began when it was granted a Royal Charter in 1613, thereby making it semi-autonomous and allowing economic expansion…
Central Scotland includes the counties of Stirlingshire and neighboring Clackmannanshire, which stretch from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs to the upper reaches of the River Forth. The region is partly…
This work identifies people from the old counties of West Lothian, Mid Lothian, East Lothian, Berwickshire, Roxburghshire, Selkirkshire, and Peeblesshire, now known as Lothian and Borders, for the period 1800…
The earliest emigrants from Highland Perthshire were Jacobite prisoners transported to South Carolina, Maryland, and the West Indies in 1716 and 1746. The next group from Highland Perthshire were soldiers…
This is the second volume by David Dobson focusing on 18th-century inhabitants of the Grampian Highlanders. It is part of a larger series by Mr. Dobson designed to identify the…
"The book contains references to people from Inverness-shire, at home and abroad, between 1800-1850. The entries bring together the emigrants and their destinations--especially in North America, the West Indies, and…
This book contains references to people from Aberdeen at home and abroad, between 1800 and 1850. The entries bring together emigrants, their destinations, especially in North America, the West Indies…
During the 17th century, when substantial numbers of Scots crossed over to Ireland to settle, much of this traffic went via the port of Ayr. At the same time, trading…
This volume concentrates on the period 1600 to 1800 when Aberdeen was one of the main cities in Scotland. By the middle of the 17th century it had a population…
This book, the second in its series and the first such collection since 1998, is based on both published and unpublished material. The book also differs from Volume One in…
By 1675 some Scots scholars, merchants, and Covenanters (Calvinists) were gravitating to Holland, Zealand, and Flanders, but the majority were soldiers fighting for the United Provinces for independence from the…
By the 18th century Dublin was the center of government, commerce, and finance for Ireland, trading with the British Isles, Europe, and across the Atlantic. Information on the 2,500 Dubliners…
The emphasis of this book is on that part of Strathmore lying within the county of Angus (formerly known as Forfarshire); it identifies over 3,000 people living in the small…
The Leeward Islands form part of the Lesser Antilles, which stretch from Puerto Rico to the fringes of Venezuela. Beginning in the seventeenth century, the Lesser Antilles attracted immigrants from…
This is the fourth and final volume in the series "Ships from Ireland to Early America, 1623-1850." It is based on both primary and secondary manuscript and published sources in…
In 1715 and again in 1745, a significant number of rebellious Scottish Jacobites could be found in the North East, an area dominated by Episcopalian landowners allied to the House…
The district of Buchan lies in Aberdeenshire on the northeast coast of Scotland. Emigration occurred from Buchan to various destinations in northern Europe, especially in the seventeenth century, and to…
During the 16th and 17th centuries, there was significant emigration, both permanent and temporary, from Scotland to the Scandinavian lands of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Some of this was by…
By the early 18th century the Irish were the largest immigrant group to settle in the thirteen colonies. During this period the majority of emigrants to America were Presbyterians from…
This book identifies many Scots found in Spain, Portugal, Italy, Madeira, Malta, Gibraltar, the Balearic Islands, the Azores and the Canary Islands. –P. [v-vi]
The counties of Argyll, Bute, and Dunbarton lie roughly northwest of Glasgow from the Firth of Clyde to the Firth of Lorne, together with Mull and some smaller islands. Most…
This book identifies people from the old counties of Nairnshire, Morayshire, Banffshire, Aberdeenshire, and Kincardineshire for the period 1800-1850. The information derives from a wide range of contemporary sources such…
This work identifies people in or from the neighboring counties of Renfrewshire, Ayrshire, Dumfries-shire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtownshire between 1800 and 1850. South West Scotland originally contained about 150 parishes, some…
Drawing upon the resources of the National Archives of Scotland in Edinburgh, Dr. Dobson here identifies upwards of 3,000 inhabitants of the Scottish Borders who themselves, or whose descendants, took…
Social and economic links between the Netherlands and England have existed since the medieval period. This book attempts to identify English people in the Netherlands, temporarily or permanently, as well…
According to some estimates as many as 100,000 Scotsmen were re-settled by the British government in the Irish Plantation of Ulster during the 17th century. The purpose of this diminutive…
This is the fourth volume (fifth part) in a series compiled by Mr. Dobson to identify the Lowland Scots who migrated to Ulster between 1575 and 1725–many of whose progeny…
This series identifies the Lowland Scots who migrated to Ulster between 1575 and 1725. Part Ten, indexed and fully sourced, identifies an additional 3,500 persons, including persons who may have…
This is the eleventh part of a series that helps the researcher to link an individual first to Ulster and then back to Scotland. Drawing on primary source material in…
Revised edition of: Scots on the Chesapeake, 1607-1830
