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RE: NATIONAL TARTAN DAY – NATIONALDAYS CHALLENGE
Ahhh. I love this. My great grandfather immigrated to the US from Scotland in the 1800’s and he married a lady who came here from France to avoid an arranged marriage. 😀 Our Tartan is Morrison. ☺️ 🏴
I wonder if he came here because of the Highland Clearances, or because of the potato famine. The famine did not affect as many people as it did in Ireland, but about 1/3 of the population of western Scotland emigrated because of the famine in the mid nineteenth century!