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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 7885889, member: 110504&quot;]...Oh, ...just, Right, I would do something less than rational for known descent from someone who was at Culloden.&nbsp; I always wanted the ancestor who arrived in Maryland in 1719 to have been a Jacobite.&nbsp; Sadly, all anyone in the family has found so far are the court records, which don&#039;t mention that.&nbsp; Yeah, you&#039;d kind of think they <i>would </i>have, even as an aside. </p><p>[Edit:] Sorry for wallowing in the obvious, but it just landed on me that, if you were interested in pursuing the milieu of what the English call &#039;the Scottish Wars&#039; (right, along the lines of, &#039;The French Disease&#039;),* one option would be to look for one of Edward I&#039;s Berwick pennies.&nbsp; I can&#039;t find the pics of mine (bought too long ago), but if your standards for condition are suitably relaxed, you can probably still find one at a price that&#039;s considerably less than stratospheric, with enough detail to justify having gone to the trouble.</p><p><br /></p><p>*...Or even, &#039;Pardon my French&#039; --for words that are invariably of Old English /ancient Germanic origin.&nbsp; (I have to love how the oldest words in English run to being monosyllabic ...often enough of four letters.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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