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From: "james buchanan" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Interpreting
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:30:19 +0100
References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0406012331420.22550-100000@BBRH73.busby.net>


The Grahams were forceably removed from the debateable land on the
borders of Scotland and England for being persistent reivers and
troublemakers.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bret Busby" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [DNA] Interpreting


> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Diane Graham wrote:
>
> >
> > Graham is a Scots surname but I find this ancestor in County Cork
> > Ireland in the 1700's.
> >
> >
>
> If my memory is correct, the English used Scots mercenaries to attack
> the Irish, and, when the Irish were subdued, some English and Scots
> remained there, to keep the Irish subdued, and to take Irish land as
> their booty. It is possible that the presence of Scots names in Ireland,
> could have come from that.
>
> --
> Bret Busby
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