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Scotland / Re: QUESTION: Did 'Huguenots' settle in Scotland?
« on: Wednesday 15 February 23 23:58 GMT (UK)  »
thx I get so focused on my surname I forget that it may have been a female from France that married a Gilmour already in Scotland. Making it harder to track

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Scotland / Re: QUESTION: Did 'Huguenots' settle in Scotland?
« on: Wednesday 15 February 23 00:15 GMT (UK)  »
Looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. So my anecdotal family history has my ancestors leaving France in the 1600’s for the Scottish isles. They then continued on the N Ireland at some point. When in Ireland their surname was Gilmour.

Emigration from France in 1600’s sounds possibly Huguenot? In Ireland they were farmers. Earliest record there in late 1700’s.

Can anyone print me in a direction that I can do some digging. Is there a western isle that seemed to harbour some Huguenot emigrees more than another. Is there a French name that Gilmour may have derived from?

Appreciate any help at all

Doug

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