A Scottish Name
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In reply to:
Re: where are we from...ireland or scotland?
5/18/98
Kirkpatrick is a Scottish surname and is a Sept of Colhouquon Clan of Luss. The name can be traced back to the thirteenth century with Roger de Kirkpatrick, friend of Robert the Bruce. The Kirkpatricks who settled the plantations in Ulster (Northern Ireland), were from Scotland originally.Many Ulster Scots (Scots Irish),emigrated to North America in the early 1700's due to increasingly restrictive and oppressive export laws imposed on them by England. Also, with the disinigration of their country by the act of the Union of Parliaments in 1707, Scots were free to travel abroad, in the search of better opportunities. But unfortunately, the little nation of Scotland lost its most precious resource.