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Emigration and Immigration

Online Databases

Immigrant Ancestors Project
Scottish Immigration Database, index, incomplete.
Passenger Lists of Ships leaving Scotland
1576-1793 Papers relating to the Scots in Poland, 1576-1793, e-book
1607-1830 Scots On the Chesapeake (Maryland, U.S.), 1607-1830 ($)
1610-1626 Grants of denization to Irish settlers from Scotland: 1610-1616
1628-1828 Ships from Scotland to America, 1628 - 1828, Vol 2 ($)
1628-1828 Ships from Scotland to America, 1628 - 1828, Vol. 3 ($)
1650-1775' Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations, 1650-1775, index, ($).
1680-1830 Directory of Scots in the Carolinas, 1680-1830, index, ($).
1774-1775 Emigrants from Scotland to America, 1774 - 1775 ($)
1774-1775 Records of emigrants from England and Scotland to North Carolina, 1774-1775, e-book
1801 Passenger lists of the ships Dove and Sarah coming to Nova Scotia from Scotland, 1801
1818 Ships "Curlew" and "Jane"; 1818 Voyages
1818 Brig Sophia:from Greenock 26th July 1818, to Quebec and Montreal 8th September 1818
1850-1879 Lyttelton shipping lists, 1850-1879 List of assisted emigrants who came to New Zealand in 1866 aboard the ship "Bombay", list of assisted and free passengers on the ship "Blue Jacke", lists of persons whom the Canterbury Association authorized to embark for Canterbury, New Zealand. Passengers came to New Zealand principally from England, Ireland, Scotland and Germany.
1852-1857 List of emigrants, 1852-1857 Ships sailing from Liverpool, Glasgow, Cambletown and Plymouth, and calling at various Australian ports.
1858-1870 Ireland and Britain, Transatlantic Migration from North America, 1858-1870 - indexes of passenger lists from United States to England and Ireland
1863-1901 Glasgow, Scotland, Crew Lists, 1863 - 1901 ($)

Immigration to Scotland

Immigration into Scotland has included people from elsewhere in the British Isles and from Continental Europe. Specific immigrant groups include:

refugees from wars (such as the French Revolution)
refugees from religious persecution (such as Huguenots and Jews).
job seekers influenced of industrial development (particularly in the nineteenth century)
refugees from the Irish Potato Famine

Emigration from Scotland

Beginning in the seventeenth century, Scottish people began emigrating to the United States, India, Canada, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, and elsewhere in the British Isles.
The following types of emigrants account for most persons who left Scotland.

Free emigrants. Beginning in 1630, emigrants left Scotland to promote trade or set up military outposts and way stations for merchant ships. Later, free emigrants sought opportunity in a new land or fled poverty or oppression in Scotland.
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:Emigration and Immigration.

Records of Scottish Emigrants in Their Destination Nations

One option is to look for records about the ancestor in the country of destination, the country they immigrated into. See links to immigration records for major destination countries below.

For Further Reading

There are additional sources listed in the FamilySearch Catalog:

Scotland - Emigration and immigration
Scotland - Migration, Internal Discusses Scottish migration within Great Britain