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yipyap · 01-11-2014, 07:29 PM

What 2 cute puppies you have there at your home in Scotland!
(You know what--we have 2 Scottish families in our background: MacLellans and McCrays ("MacRae", but we think that one old settler had his last name's spelling changed on army rolls or by the imagration officials to an Irish spelling as there are NO real "Irish" MacRaes--these men were both Scotch-Irish who came to the USA, but a hundred years apart! The MacLellan family came in 1600's and went through the "King Philip's Indian Wars"--the Indian chief's Nickname during the Naragansett Colony's Indian Wars that were encouraged by the French to try to take over New England) and later the family's grandsons were in the "French & Indian Wars" and settled in Maine & Rhode Island colonies--MacLellan--and the great-great grandsons also fought in the American Revolution (they lived up in Maine). Now, my hubby is not sure when the first MacRae/McCray came over--1700's, he thinks. We know they were both "Scotch-Irish", which local historians say means they were "Scottish" originally.) I will ask my daughter if her Aunt knows about this early MacRae/McCray.

01-11-2014, 07:29 PM	#393
yipyap Donating Senior Yorkie Talker Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: Shenandoah Valley, VA., USA Posts: 173	To Julie/Alfie's Mum What 2 cute puppies you have there at your home in Scotland! (You know what--we have 2 Scottish families in our background: MacLellans and McCrays ("MacRae", but we think that one old settler had his last name's spelling changed on army rolls or by the imagration officials to an Irish spelling as there are NO real "Irish" MacRaes--these men were both Scotch-Irish who came to the USA, but a hundred years apart! The MacLellan family came in 1600's and went through the "King Philip's Indian Wars"--the Indian chief's Nickname during the Naragansett Colony's Indian Wars that were encouraged by the French to try to take over New England) and later the family's grandsons were in the "French & Indian Wars" and settled in Maine & Rhode Island colonies--MacLellan--and the great-great grandsons also fought in the American Revolution (they lived up in Maine). Now, my hubby is not sure when the first MacRae/McCray came over--1700's, he thinks. We know they were both "Scotch-Irish", which local historians say means they were "Scottish" originally.) I will ask my daughter if her Aunt knows about this early MacRae/McCray.