One factor always gets left out in the settlement of this country, due to the fact that they went to Ireland prior to emigrating to the USA, is the Welsh. It's immigrants began early and were likely the predominant population of immigrants to this country for our early history. I grew up in your Greater Appalachia Region, SE Oklahoma, and agree with your assessments, save the leaving out of "Welsh". The same thing happened to the Welsh when the were removed by King James to Ireland, along with the English & Scots. They have forever since been lumped into the silly category of "Scots-Irish". Not even close. The Welsh have a different DNA that any of the other parts of "Great Britain", whether it be English, Irish or Scots. My phone book in Seminole, OK, was Welsh. You'll find the same all over Greater Appalachia. Take a look at who settled Pennsylvania, parts of New Hampshire, Maine, and even throw in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas. My phone book was WELSH. They are Welsh surnames, as is mine, Matthews. Jones, Evans, Reese, Williams, Davies, Davis, Jenkins, Howell, Thomas, etc., etc. If you have an understanding to the Welsh, you will have a better understanding of the Greater Appalachia Region of which you write. It is also a great determinant in some of the other regions, i.e. Deep South. A study of Welsh surnames would be useful in understanding "how the West was won".
I should add, that what may have been a majority of "Irish" who came to the USA were NOT Irish at all. They were English, Scots and Welsh, who had been sent to Ireland by King James, beginning in circa 1607, to suppress the Catholics there. See the "Plantations" in N. Ireland, which were the same "Plantations" that settled this country. It was one hundred years later that those Plantation transplants then transplanted themselves in the New World Colonies, having found conditions in Ireland intolerable. They were English, Scots and Welsh, NOT "Irish", who immigrated much later. Try to find an Irish surname here in the first 200 years since 1607. Not!
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One factor always gets left out in the settlement of this country, due to the fact that they went to Ireland prior to emigrating to the USA, is the Welsh. It's immigrants began early and were likely the predominant population of immigrants to this country for our early history. I grew up in your Greater Appalachia Region, SE Oklahoma, and agree with your assessments, save the leaving out of "Welsh". The same thing happened to the Welsh when the were removed by King James to Ireland, along with the English & Scots. They have forever since been lumped into the silly category of "Scots-Irish". Not even close. The Welsh have a different DNA that any of the other parts of "Great Britain", whether it be English, Irish or Scots. My phone book in Seminole, OK, was Welsh. You'll find the same all over Greater Appalachia. Take a look at who settled Pennsylvania, parts of New Hampshire, Maine, and even throw in parts of Virginia and the Carolinas. My phone book was WELSH. They are Welsh surnames, as is mine, Matthews. Jones, Evans, Reese, Williams, Davies, Davis, Jenkins, Howell, Thomas, etc., etc. If you have an understanding to the Welsh, you will have a better understanding of the Greater Appalachia Region of which you write. It is also a great determinant in some of the other regions, i.e. Deep South. A study of Welsh surnames would be useful in understanding "how the West was won".
I should add, that what may have been a majority of "Irish" who came to the USA were NOT Irish at all. They were English, Scots and Welsh, who had been sent to Ireland by King James, beginning in circa 1607, to suppress the Catholics there. See the "Plantations" in N. Ireland, which were the same "Plantations" that settled this country. It was one hundred years later that those Plantation transplants then transplanted themselves in the New World Colonies, having found conditions in Ireland intolerable. They were English, Scots and Welsh, NOT "Irish", who immigrated much later. Try to find an Irish surname here in the first 200 years since 1607. Not!
Other Welsh Surnames: Blevins, Bowen, Floyd, Lloyd, Morgan, Maddox, Morris, Perry, Marvin, Perkins, Powell, Price, Pritchard, Pugh, Sayer, Sawyer, Trevor, Vaughan, Yates, David, Goff, Arthur, Dewey, Flint, Griffin, Blevins, Conway, Crowder, Glasco, Griffith, Barry, Bryce, Charles, Cogan, Dacus, Couch, Day, George, Harris, Maddox, Morse, Oliver, Owens, Popkin, Pride, Haynes, Humphries, Lewis, Moore, Palin, Pearce, Pierce, Perry, Gwynn, Hughes, Kimble, Purcell, Rice, Samson, Priddy, Roderick, Samuel, Teague and many, many more. So, tell me, who settled the West? The "Irish"?
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