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From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 10 Sep 2014 11:28PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bailey, Murray
My G-Grandfather was born in 1857. After his birth, his parents immigrated to Nova Scotia. I don't have much information about the family, but I am wondering why a Scottish family would move to Nova Scotia. Was there a religious movement going on or better jobs available? In regards to when they left Scotland, I only know that it was between 1857 and aprox. 1870.
Thanks for any insight you can offer.

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 22 Oct 2014 1:33AM GMT
Classification: Query
Lots was economic in those years. And Nova Scotia does mean New Scotland.

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 2 Nov 2014 4:49PM GMT
Classification: Query
Give us the names you have and any other pertinent info and we will see what we can find.!!

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 1 May 2015 7:06AM GMT
Classification: Query
Because that's where the ships were going. Seriously, Nova Scotia, Canada and Scotland were/are part of the British Empire. There were many ships going back and forth from England, Scotland, and Ireland to th seaports on the eastern Canadian coast. Many immigrants to Nova Scotia migrated down into Maine where they settled. From there, families moved on into New Hampshire and Massachusetts, across upper New York state, and into Ohio. As I have been researching my family trees, i have found families from Maine living in southerin Ohio in the early 1800's. Ohio was opened to settlers just after the Revolutionary War. And so the migration from New England westward grew as more land became available in new places and middle America developed. In my work, i was tracing spousal lines back from the midwest to their New England ancestors. My paternal grandfather was born in Iowa in 1871. In 1895, he east to Connecticut from Kansas to go to Yale Medical School,. After he finished his degree, he married and settled in central Connecticut. And that's why I live in Connecticut. My maternal grandparents were Swedish immigrants who met here. Marilyn Moser, CT

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 5 May 2015 12:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thanks for the information Marilyn. I have been working on this family line for so long. I just can't figure out where to go next. My G-Grandfather told the story that he was abandoned in Nova Scotia. I don't know if he had siblings, if one of his parents died or both, the key word seems to be abandoned. So I have been trying to figure out why his parents would leave their country to go Nova Scotia, only to abandon him. My G- Grandfather was born in 1857 in Scotland and married my G-Grandmother in Wisconsin in 1886. He passed before I was born and has left me with so many unanswered questions. I sure would like to know his story. :)

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 5 May 2015 1:39AM GMT
Classification: Query
I notice you never gave his name. There are pretty active genealogical societies in Canada that cover Nova Scotia. I'm actually a DNA match with a family that has roots there, but we haven't discovered the connection yet. You might find a birth in Scotland, going to Scotland's People
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/
You'll have to make an account. Being born in 1857 means you should be able to find him on the statutory registers. Knowing his parents names would make it easier. You buy credits in bunches and then spend them, 1 for search results and 5 for a record. So you want to be fairly sure you have the person you want before spending the credits.
Once you know where in Scotland he came from you might get a better idea of why they went to Nova Scotia... might have been with a group.

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 6 May 2015 12:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
The best way I know of to get help is to make your family trees public. Take advantage of ancestry.com hints that sare other public trees wth you and yours with others. Second, click on my profile and look at my publics trees. I have a couple trees that are research trrees. If they are private, its because I'm not sure of the reliability of some of the info yet. They tend to overlap with my public tree. Look at my trees carefully. I don't try to trace one linear line. I trace generations of families. For instance, my reatgrandfater, 0siah Moser, had several brothers and sisters. I traced the extended families of each sibling over several generations up into thenearly to mid 1900's. For good measure I did the same thing for the families of their spouses. And all this is shared in public trees. This week, ijust connected a Moser cousin who is descended from my greatgrand aunt (my greatgrandfather's sister) . I am her 1st cousin 2x removed. She had one son. The last information I had was from the 1880 census. This week i found her mother's obituary from 1918, and just like that I had her married name. Her grandchildren now have access to their grandmother's family history back to the 1700's. All because someone shared a name that connected with someone in one of my public trees.

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 9 May 2015 12:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bailey, Murray
Thank you for your help Barbara. I have sent you a private message.

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 9 May 2015 12:57AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Bailey, Murray
Thank you so much for your suggestions. I have kept my tree private for the same reasons that you expressed. I want to make sure that all of my documentation is reliable. I didn't realize that it was possible to make parts of it public. This is an excellent idea for me to follow up on. This is a perfect solution for so much of the information that I have, which is ready to share. Many thanks!
Sue

Re: From Scotland to Nova Scotia -why?

Posted: 13 May 2015 6:18PM GMT
Classification: Query
I got your message and replied but haven't heard back from you.
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