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From: Mary Stewart Kyritsis <>
Subject: Re: [STEWART-L] ports
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 10:31:40 -0500
References: <002901c1c39b$ad31e500$c88cb2d1@jays>


How long after 1885 did they end up in Oklahoma? I forget my history --
when was that territory opened? (I remember seeing a western years ago
showing the people all poised at the border waiting for permission to go
-- in those days all my history lessons were learned in the movies)
Maybe they got the bug and went out then. Or went with a group.

It's possible that they landed in the US further south; maybe
Baltimore? In the 18th century most of the Scots went to the southern
states; the northern states tended to absorb the Scots from Ulster. I'm
not sure about the 19th century though.

Mary

Mary Kyritis
Kifissia, Greece

Jay and Joyce Webster wrote:
>
> My grandparents left Scotland between 1883-1885. They came to the USA to Oklahoma where my grandfather was a miner. I have no clue as to how they got to America. Does anyone have a relative that left Scotland and ended up in Oklahoma? I looked at Ellis Island and haven't been able to find them? Thanks, Joyce
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