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:*'''Assisted emigrants'''. From 1815 to 1900, qualified emigrants received '''passage money or land grants''' in the destination country as an alternative to receiving poor relief. Many Scots from the Highlands emigrated to Canada in this manner. After 1840, New Zealand and Australia offered money for land grants to skilled workers to encourage immigrants. | :*'''Assisted emigrants'''. From 1815 to 1900, qualified emigrants received '''passage money or land grants''' in the destination country as an alternative to receiving poor relief. Many Scots from the Highlands emigrated to Canada in this manner. After 1840, New Zealand and Australia offered money for land grants to skilled workers to encourage immigrants. | ||
:*'''Latter-day Saints'''. Beginning in about 1840, many Scottish Latter-day Saints emigrated to the United States. Most settled in Utah. For more information, see [[Utah Emigration and Immigration]] and [[Latter-day Saint Online Genealogy Records|Latter-day Saint Online Genealogy Records:Emigration and Immigration]]. | :*'''Latter-day Saints'''. Beginning in about 1840, many Scottish Latter-day Saints emigrated to the United States. Most settled in Utah. For more information, see [[Utah Emigration and Immigration]] and [[Latter-day Saint Online Genealogy Records|Latter-day Saint Online Genealogy Records:Emigration and Immigration]]. | ||
====Scottish Diaspora==== | |||
The Scottish diaspora includes: | |||
*The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auld_Alliance '''Auld Alliance'''] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wars_of_Scottish_Independence '''Scottish Wars of Independence'''] which led countless Scots to emigrate to '''mainland Europe''' to escape persecution and hardship. | |||
*The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Clearances '''Highland clearances'''] which depopulated large parts of the Scottish Highlands and had lasting effects on Scottish Gaelic culture. Emigrants settled in close communities on '''Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia (Antigonish and Pictou counties and later in Cape Breton), the Glengarry and Kingston areas of Ontario and the Carolinas of the American colonies.''' | |||
*The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowland_Clearances '''Lowland Clearances'''] which resulted in significant migration of Lowland Scots to '''Canada (highest concentration in the province Nova Scotia) and the United States''' after 1776. Thousands of cottars and tenant farmers from the southern counties (Lowlands) of Scotland migrated from farms and small holdings they had occupied to the new '''industrial centres of Glasgow, Edinburgh and northern England.''' | |||
*The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people '''Ulster-Scots'''], descended primarily from Lowland Scots who settled Ulster, Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. The largest numbers came from '''Galloway, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Ayrshire and the Scottish Borders including nearby parts of Northern England''', with others coming from further north in the Scottish Lowlands and, to a much lesser extent, from the Highlands. Ulster Scots emigrated '''onwards from Ireland in significant numbers to what is now the United States and to all corners of the then-worldwide British Empire—what are now Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, the West Indies, to British India and to a lesser extent to Argentina and Chile'''.Scotch-Irish (or Scots-Irish) is a traditional term for Ulster Scots who emigrated to America.<ref>"List of diasporas", https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diasporas#S, accessed 17 June 2021.</ref> | |||
==Records of Scottish Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ==Records of Scottish Emigrants in Their Destination Nations== | ||