The book is arranged by country of origin and thereunder alphabetically by surname. Each individual is identified by name, age, sex, occupation, country of birth, county of residence in South Carolina, and household enumeration number assigned by the census taker. The front matter of the book includes an author’s Introduction and a list of South Carolina county codes. The book concludes with a name index, an occupation index, and a place index. Mrs. Motes transcribed her information from thirteen reels of microfilm covering the 29 South Carolina counties in 1850.

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In 1689 Presbyterianism became the established form of church government in Scotland and those people who wished to retain Episcopacy withdrew from the parish churches to form their own congregations. The Episcopalians were generally in favour of the House of Stuart and the Jacobite Cause, which led to Penal Laws being introduced from 1712. As a result, two distinct Episcopalian churches developed: the Qualified Episcopal Church, which prayed for the Hanoverian monarchs, used the English liturgy and prayer book, and employed Anglican clergy; and the other, which was under severe restrictions and retained the Scottish Episcopal practices.

In Dundee both churches existed and retained their independence until the early nineteenth century. The existence of records of baptisms, marriages, and deaths for Episcopalians are virtually non-existent in Dundee until around 1810. To identify who were members of the churches it has been necessary to use other sources, such as the vestry records and financial records, where available. The outcome of that effort is this partial compilation, which cites many, though not all, members of the church during the period 1715 to 1835. It is clear from the data in this book that most members were from Dundee and surrounding counties, but there were a substantial number from England and Ireland, as well as a handful from Germany and the Netherlands. A number of these Episcopalians had family links to Jamaica and India. This book is designed as an aid to genealogists and historians and is overwhelmingly based on records in St. Paul’s Cathedral and in the Dundee City Archives.

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Libraries at home and abroad provided some interesting material. Most of the libraries were in Scotland, such as the National Library of Scotland or the Library of the University of St Andrews. The author also consulted sources in London such as the City of London Record Office and the National Maritime Museum. Published sources such as the Scots Magazine, the Gentleman’s Magazine, and the Royal Gazette of North America provided valuable, if obscure, references. The matriculation rolls and the graduation records of the Scottish universities identified the sons of colonists who were sent to Scotland for their education. The majority of these students bore Scottish surnames, but there were some with continental European names who may have been attracted by the courses offered, especially the medical ones.

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Emigration from Ireland to the Americas in the early modern period grew from a trickle to a torrent between the 17th century and the 19th century. Some emigrants left Ireland bound directly for the colonies as indentured servants. However, most Irishmen who settled in the Americas in the 17th century arrived as prisoners of war banished to the Plantations.

Oliver Cromwell transported hundreds of Irish to islands in the West Indies, notably Barbados and especially Montserrat. Most 17th-century Irish found in the Americas were highly likely to be Roman Catholics who had opposed the English occupation of much of Ireland and who arrived as prisoners sold as indentured servants. By the end of the 17th century attempts at settlement by the Irish had occurred at locations stretching from Newfoundland to the Amazon River.

This picture changed in the early 18th century when most Irish emigrants to America were Anglican, Quakers, or Presbyterians. There was substantial emigration from the north of Ireland by Presbyterians whose ancestors had settled there from Scotland during the Plantation of Ulster in the 17th century. These “Scotch Irish” found that they were treated as second-class citizens by the Anglican Ascendancy of Ireland, and, consequently, from 1718, they began to settle in the North American mainland’s thirteen colonies. An estimated 200,000, mainly Scotch Irish, had vacated the Emerald Isle by 1799, becoming one of the largest ethnic groups to settle in the British colonies in the that century.

The 19th century brought the potato famine of 1846-1851 in Ireland, which forced hundreds of thousands of mostly Irish Catholics to abandon their homes for refuge in North America, as well as in Britain and Australasia.

The expansion of transatlantic trade between Ireland and the Americas during the 18th and 19th centuries facilitated emigration. Also, from the late 18th century onwards, the British Army increasingly recruited Irishmen into its ranks. Consequently, many of these Irish veterans could be found settled throughout the British Empire. In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815, the British government settled thousands of former soldiers and their families in Canada.

In originally compiling the ten parts of this consolidated edition, author David Dobson consulted reference material located in archives and libraries in the United States, Canada, Britain, Ireland, and the West Indies. In all, he identifies more than 10,000 Irish emigrants to North America by name, date, occupation, specific place of origin, and, in many cases, by kinspeople, vessel traveled upon, and other circumstances.

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The society and economy of south east Scotland at the time was rural and depended on industries such as farming, fishing, whaling, coalmining, and forestry. There were several, long established, small burghs in the region, which were either market towns, fishing ports, or administrative centers, including Kelso, Dunbar, Melrose, Haddington, Musselburgh, Galashiels, Peebles, Jedburgh, Dalkeith, Linlithgow, Queensferry, Prestonpans, and Selkirk. The River Tweed forms the natural border between Scotland and England; however, Berwick-on-Tweed, once one of Scotland’s original burghs, is legally in Northumberland, England. The most important town in south east Scotland was, and is, Edinburgh, which has been covered in the book, The People of Edinburgh and Leith at Home and Abroad, 1800-1850.

For those wishing to put their Scottish family history into context the best sources are the Old Statistical Accounts of the 1790s and the New Statistical Accounts compiled between 1832 and 1845. These Accounts were produced by parish ministers and covered a wide range of subjects, such as geography, education, history, the economy, agriculture, shipping, population, and religion. These Accounts are available on the website of the National Library of Scotland. Possibly the best collection of local history and family histories can be found in the library of the Scottish Genealogy Society in Edinburgh. Local family history societies include the Borders FHS in Galashiels, the Lothians FHS in Bonnyrigg, and the West Lothian FHS in Bathgate.

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The Scottish Enlightenment gave Edinburgh much of its international renown. Edinburgh became the capital of the Scottish professional classes, and it also was the center of publishing, banking, the Church, and insurance companies, as well as distinguished educational establishments. Transportation improvements, such as the Leith Docks, introduction of the railways, and construction of bridges within the city, enabled Edinburgh to expand. During the 19^th century, the affluent would abandon the Old Town in favor of the New Town, the middle classes and the skilled workers moved out to the suburbs, while those who had no option remained in the Old Town.

Leith functioned as the port of Edinburgh. The import-export trade initially was confined to western Europe but eventually became worldwide. Timber was imported from Scandinavia, grain from the Baltic, and wine from France and Spain, while coal from nearby coalfields was exported to Scandinavia and the Netherlands. Leith was famous for its glass and bottle-making works, brewing, distilling, and warehousing. Leith was also an important shipbuilding center, and many immigrant transports sailed from Leith.

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The entries in this work, to some extent, enable family historians in the Americas, Australasia, and other locations to link with their kin who remained in Scotland. The Statistical Account of Scotland (OSA), compiled between 1791 and 1799, and the New Statistical Account of Scotland (NSA), compiled between 1832 and 1845, are especially helpful for understanding Scottish society of the period. These can be consulted in major libraries, such as the National Library of Scotland, or online.

In the late 18^th century, the regional economy was based on farming, textiles, and mining. The existence of iron and coal enabled industrialization to occur relatively early. Coalmining rapidly expanded due to domestic demand and industrial expansion, especially the adoption of the Bolton and Watt steam engines in Scottish textile mills. Supplies of flax were imported from the Baltic, and the linen manufactured became an important export for Central Scotland. The nearly simultaneous Agricultural Revolution caused the merging of small farms, creating a rural labor surplus that either moved to the burgeoning factory towns in the Lowlands or emigrated.

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By the 19^th century Fife had become a center of heavy industry based on the significant coal seams of south west Fife, where ports to handle exports were established, and the county’s emergence as a major producer of textiles, especially linen. The agricultural revolution of the late 18^th century resulted in a rise in the output of grain, mostly for domestic use but also for distilling and export. Fishing, based in East Neuk villages such as Pittenweem and Anstruther, was as major employer in the early 19^th century but later declined.

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During the early modern period Leith traded with ports around the Baltic, the North Sea, and the Mediterranean, as well as with the Americas. Its seamen, in Dutch or English service, could be found as far away as Asia or the Americas. Leith was a major importer and distribution center of French and Spanish wine from the 16^th century onwards. Leith also had a thriving whaling industry, and shipbuilding, dependent upon timber imported from Norway, was another traditional industry. However, the emphasis of the economy was on seafaring. Leith was the single most important port in Scotland until the rise of trans-Atlantic trade enabled the Clyde ports of Glasgow-Greenock to become pre-eminent.

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The best sources for those researchers with their roots in or around Glasgow are two Family History Societies: the Glasgow and West of Scotland FHS and the Lanarkshire FHS. The best single genealogy library in the area is the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, which claims to be one of the largest reference libraries in Europe.

By 1800, the economy of Glasgow, already dependent on transatlantic trade, had begun to industrialize. Capital increasingly was invested in collieries and iron mines, engineering, shipbuilding, and textile factories to produce goods for export. The burgeoning population of Glasgow, partly stemming from immigrants from the West Highlands and from Ireland, also caused an expansion of agriculture along the Clyde Valley. The expanding population, however, gave rise to poverty, social unrest, and the spread of diseases such as typhus and cholera, which in turn fueled emigration to North America, the West Indies, and Australasia. Glasgow’s skilled, white-collar work force was in demand abroad, especially in the rapidly industrializing United States, thus also contributing to emigration for this more affluent economic class.

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