The Most Incredible Migration in Scottish History

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@iatsd]

Going to be doing anything about the Scottish settlements in Otago, down in the South Island? The McRae's and their dedication to making wiskey, regardless of the law at various points, makes for interesting history. Personally, I think it's a bit fo a stretch to pin the organised migration of Scots to New Zealand on this guy. The vast majority of the migration was organised by dedicated migration socities & corporations, primarily to the Otago and Wairarapa regions. No different from the English migration corporations/socities that recruited and shipped people to other parts of NZ. What's *really* fascinating is how, and how much, the various groups lied in order to get people to come to the country, and then what happened to the poor bastards once they did arrive.

[@gustavmeyrink_2.0]

Hello Bruce! I meant to ask you for some time if you have an opinion on the Crest Badge of Clan MacLellan?

[@zaynevanday142]

This looks like New Zealand 🇳🇿 Bruce 😂

[@zaynevanday142]

My Family on my Fathers side arrived in Dunedin in the South Island of New Zealand 🇳🇿 in 1840 the Blackburne’s ❤

[@zaynevanday142]

Ha ha 😂😂😂 it is NZ 😂

[@MacKenziePoet]

From one video to the next, Bruce Fummey makes history come alive as no other historian can do.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

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[@colincampbell7027]

My father was born in Edinburgh and came over in 1929 at 4.5 years old to the US. My mother's side, who were also Campbell's (many generations apart) came from the Isle of Man from 1825 thru Canada (Simcoe County, Ont.) To the US by 1869, settling in Chicago eventually where my great grandfather was a prominent businessman and later a lawyer. My father, an immigrant fought in WW2 and in 1946 got his citizenship to the US. And I came about a bit later.

[@jaymannewell]

Pop, used to say, When you drink the water, spare a thought for the man who dug the well.

[@StackPlanet]

I’m adopted and recently discovered through an ancestry test that most of my ancestors hail from Scotland. I have a new found pride for my ancestral history and I have you to thank enormously for that. Your videos have given me a deep sense of understanding of my roots and in a way it feels like my long lost brother is catching me up to speed. You sir make me proud to be Scottish. Thank you Bruce for all that you do!!

[@Tsoiugidali]

Your life story echoes mine!

[@BoadiceanRevenge]

Oh Bless you dear. Hope your life is happy! 🙏🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🙋

[@thepm3972]

Awrabest to you fellow kinsman

[@loressaalbin6965]

Ditto...my story is the same as yours. It confirmed what I had always felt living within my soul

[@skarlottt]

Welcome from the Armstrong clan

[@heatherstephens9295]

My parents immigrated to New Zealand after the Second World War. He was a radio operator in the merchant navy so he landed up getting a job for the nz government in civil aviation & did five years for them in the Fijian Islands before being allowed to settle here. He worked for them for 25 years. Always called Scotland home. Work was virtually impossible in Scotland after the war for returned service men so he looked for an opportunity overseas. Thank you for all the education you give us & I hope you had a great stay here ❤

[@elizabethbarclay2518]

Just discovered this wonderful teller of Scottish stories. Thank you!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Failte

[@stephenrhody828]

I’m Canadian and very interested in my Scottish ancestry. My great great grandfather, James Wallace, immigrated to Canada from Northern Ireland in the 1850’s. I’m assuming he was Scots Irish, that is, a Presbyterian Scot whose family had immigrated to Northern Ireland a few generations earlier, since his last name was Scottish and he was Protestant. He was a pioneer in the rural part of what was then called Upper Canada. He was granted free land in the wilderness, but was required to clear it to make it into farmland. Imagine the hard work as he and his family cut down one tree after another, using nothing but a two-handed saw, and pulled out stumps with nothing but a team of horses, until their fields were ready for the first crop. Your video resonates with me because I also feel that my Scottish ancestors led the way as pioneers in Canada so I could live a better life here today. Yet, as you said Bruce, they did it for us even though they didn’t know who we were. Most of the people in my family don’t know this man’s name or anything about his story because the knowledge has been lost as generations have gone by. I’ve been researching it, and I feel a responsibility to honour his legacy by keeping the story alive. It’s so great to watch your videos and learn how my personal family history fits into the bigger story of Scottish migration around the world. Thank you for the colourful way you bring the history to life. (I must also explain that I had a sobering realization recently that my family’s prosperity has been possible due to the dispossession of, not one, but two populations: the Native Irish and the Canadian Indigenous people who had to be moved out of the way. I’m proud that our government here in Canada has been making great strides in its efforts to bring about fairer conditions for our Native people.)

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here. Still waiting for the Ottawa link. It'll be in Gladstone Theatre www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

[@peterbassett3473]

My maternal ancestors were from this area too, Lochalsh, Gairloch, Poolewe and Ullapool. Donald and Christina McGregor with family were on the “Margaret” and Kenneth and Margaret Stuart with their family on the “Highland Lass” sailed from St Ann’s Harbour to Adelaide and then 17 mths and 11 mths later sailed together on the “Gazelle”, arrived in Auckland on 17 September 1853 to eventually settle in Taurikura, Whangarei Heads. They would cross the harbour to visit families in Waipu. Good to listen to this story told.

[@stretchedandy]

These are my Gael Ancestors. Some of my family who took this journey were Selkirk settlers who had sailed on the Polly in 1803 for PEI they stay for for 9yrs until a family tragedy had them on the move again to Cape Breton Island. One of my Campbell families were close to Norman living across the water from him in St Anns. They were followers of his from Lochinver where my Mcleod/Campbells family had been cleared to the coast. Thank you for sharing our story with the world.

[@jdbne]

My great grandfather Alexander Livingstone 1:20 came to Australia in the 1880’s from Dalkeith.

[@heatherdavis4048]

Hello Heather from Melbourne Australia.. my family came from old meldrum. My grandfather's name was Alexander Forbes Angus I know very little about the reason my family left and went to new Zealand first then here sometime in 1820's. I had booked to go there in 2020 but was of course unable to. There is a great sense of pride that is still in my family my sons middle name is Alexander haha. I have pictures of them my great great grandparents when they were older and their dog called Scott. I am 64 and there is no one left to tell me stories so thanks for yours

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

In February and March I'll be visiting the major towns in Australia and New Zealand with my live show Scotland Made the World. In Melbourne 7th and 8th Feb. It would be great to see you. Get info at www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

[@loriscook5231]

My McLachlan great grandparents immigrated with their adult children from Rothsay on the Isle of Bute Scotland to Wellington NZ in 1899. Even now after nearly 200 yrs people from Invercargill NZ still have a Scottish accent.

[@AnnetteTurner-b2w]

My Mc Curdy is from Isle of Bute

[@littlegringa78]

Spotted your location early on in the video so i knew where the story would lead! Welcome to Aotearoa, hope you enjoyed your time here. Love the color and depth that your telling brings to these stories, and i could listen to your accent for hours. My husband and i both have family that took this same journey in the 1800s from Scotland; love learning about the stories of life there and what led folks to make what must have been a very daunting choice for their families.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@theobserver2309]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours The name of the country is New Zealand. There is no such place as Aotearoa.

[@flamencoprof]

@@theobserver2309 I feel unfortunate to have read such a comment as yours.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

@flamencoprof Aye the @The Observer guy seems a bit nuts. Randomly inserts that bit of crazy when I never mentioned Aotearoa. I suppose my Scottish mind set would not have thought of it, though I did hear and see that apparently non-existent name all over it all over the place in those beautiful islands

[@theobserver2309]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours It is an agenda by the militant anti 'vanilla' (to quote their own words) segment of our population, used in their goal to undo and vilify everything European. You bought into their agenda with the use of their substitute name for New Zealand. Our Scottish ancestors are the vanilla people. I hope the penny has dropped...

[@youdonthavetoreadthispost.5850]

Aye, and hello. Their Pipers and their families came as well. They held true to their original style of music when Scotland morphed into regimental/ parade bagpiping. They play for their "dancer's feet" in their halls and at their Caeleigh's, normally from a seated position. Embellishment is largely up to the piper an often not written in but sung in the Cantaireachd. Fiddle interchanges and foot-tapping is inevitable. Best on this side o' the pond, eh ? Great Old Piping traditions. Guid oan ye' there, Bruce - Read "Shipping News"

[@DaFooling]

I know Waipu well and have stayed there often, even gone highland dancing there. My ancestors left Inverness for the gold rush in Johannesburg and then onto what was then South Rhodesia to farm. My grandparents moved back to Johannesburg and my parents moved to New Zealand. A fantastic amount of Scottish heritage here.

[@WaveWatcher10]

My ancestors left ( or were strongly encouraged to leave) the Port of Menteith in Scotland and headed for the goldfields of Ballarat Victoria in the mid 1850s

[@angelrose7426]

Thank you for going into the stories of the Scottish diaspora. There are so many of us. My own Campbell Ancestors started in Logie Coldstone, Aberdeenshire. First stop was in Christchurch New Zealand, then onto Australia. After that they ended up in British Columbia Canada . I am Canadian but I have extended family in New Zealand Australia and South Africa because of the initial migration . My ancestors too were looking for a place to call home and wouldn't stop until they found it.

[@HadriansWallNZ]

I left Scotland in 1989 and now live just down the road from Waipu. I have a distant cousin who lives in Waipu and is a descendant of the original settlers. The names listed in the Waipu museum are familiar names in my family tree, all from the north east of Scotland, but I haven’t found the specific link to them yet, or the ancestral link to my cousin. The migration is an interesting story, and must have been a treacherous journey for them before they finally settled here in NZ.

[@beverlybrett7057]

dna would help. and does your distant cousin know which ancestor came and on which ship

[@JinaNZTaylor]

Kiwi here ... very Scottish roots . .my ancestors came here and settled the area I live in. Always a story we tell that one brother emigrating here left his trunk on the wharf as he travelled inland by road and pack ... and the next brother arrived a year later and it was still waiting on the wharf.

[@shenlun]

G'Day Bruce, i really enjoyed your show in Brisbane, I was the bloke in the walker sitting at the back of the venue and I chatted to you during your breaks and before the show. I can't recommend the show enough it was awesome

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant. Thanks for coming

[@Boogie597]

Hi mate, I am an Australian living in Wollongong. I am married to an Edinburgh girl Kathleen. Wollongong is full of Scottish history and when my father-in-law (who played football for Hearts of Midlothian) came to visit to see his grandson playing for Unanderra Hearts ( a team started by Midlothian folk) in the maroon and white he was so overjoyed. "Dig im in" You need to look at the Scottish influence in out town. Love your work brother. Peet

[@anotherbloodytruckie455]

I left NE of Scotland at the age of 38 and arrived in Christchurch NZ in 2004 with just 1 suitcase and $3000. 19 years later I've got a $700,000 house with my Kiwi missus, I've got 5 stepchildren, 11 grandkids and a lifestyle I would never have been able have in Scotland. I'm just a truck driver, been all over NZ and living in South Canterbury now. We've had some tough times, but coming here was the best thing I've ever done. I'd never set foot on a plane 'til I left either!

[@anotherbloodytruckie455]

@Homie We both thought were marrying into money and we were both wrong!

[@billblaikie8415]

Many thanks Bruce. Your videos bring Scots history and heritage alive. My Great Grandfather John MacLennan was from near Aultbea. He was one of 4 brothers who settled in the Mallee in Victoria, Australia. They all married MacInnes sisters from Skye. Their descendants are now spread across Australia with some still in the Mallee. I often wonder how they did it. Cheers.

[@zcal01]

Interesting name... Have a Bill Blaikie in my family line.

[@markw999]

Hey Bruce - just watched The Lost King the other night. You were perfect! Oscar worthy performance.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂Maybe a bit strong

[@markw999]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours Nah, I totally believed you were a history buff - great acting!

[@christineweir9284]

Wow, so excited to watch this story. My folks were on the Highland Lass and this has bought tears to eyes just thinking about it. I'm so proud of Scottish heritage and all that my ancestors accomplished in rebuilding their lives not just once but twice. Thank you.

[@drewgilmour3489]

My family from Scotland sailed off to the United States, Canada and Australia. I am first generation American as my mother was born in Clyde Bank, Dads side came over just before the American Civil War.

[@arthurgordon6072]

Love the Otago Highlanders shirt!

[@dequidaqwadoa1553]

My family ( Pollock) came from Glasgow to North Carolina. Would love for you to do a video on the Scottish coming to the colonies. Much love from the U S. ❤️❤️

[@masson555]

My great great great grandparents immigrated to Australia and New Zealand before the First World War. The two brothers ended up fighting in the conflict and my dad found both their military graves in France only 10 miles apart from each other a few years ago.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah no, that's heartbreaking

[@roberthunter5398]

Your thought process behind the production of this video is staggering. A fascinating story Bruce. Many humble thanks.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wow, thanks

[@coalminersgranddaughter]

My 4x great grandparents were on that migration!!!!! If you are related to these people, PLEASE test your DNA. There are at least 200 of us that are related and have tested. The MacKenzie Y chromosome is amazing!!! Thank you for this video. I love it!!

[@HalifaxHercules]

As a Nova Scotian myself, I'm surprised that the stories of Reverend Norman MacLeod and his Presbyterian Followers were never told in our education system. It wasn't even taught in my home town, Halifax, as well as Cape Breton Island. On a personal note, my Maternal Grandmother's ancestors, Clan MacDonald, migrated from Scotland to Nova Scotia during the late 18th century as part of the Highland Clearances.

[@leandabee]

Absolutely fascinating!! Your editing is always superb 🤗🇦🇺

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Blame Matt Ward for the editing

[@leandabee]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours😅, Matt Ward is a clever boy 👌

[@vallovesnature8449]

Thoroughly enjoyed watching this! I get the feeling that I only know part of my ancestors stories. Arrows on the map pointing to Canada(I’m in NJ). I’ve always loved the sea, now I’m thinking it’s definitely in my dna. Stay awesome Bruce!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️😊

[@davidmitchell7181]

Excellent story as always and a subject close to my heart as a Scotsman who’s lived in New Zealand for 30+ years Always a joy to watch :)

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yay

[@edithengel2284]

My father's father's people came from Yorkshire to farm and fish in northern Nova Scotia in 1774. In the depths of the Depression they immigrated to southeastern Massachusetts. It wasn't long in distance, but it took them a rather long time to get here. 🙂 (His mother's people made the "ordinary" transition from Ireland to Boston in the late 1840s.). Thank you for the great story.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you for YOURS

[@iainfoxell8543]

My ancestor John McDonald and his family did this journey on the Eillan Lewis. When I've read the stories and watched this vid I stand in awe of these people. Hardy determined folk. They expected nothing other than the possibility of a better life.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Fantastic

[@beverlybrett7057]

I live across the river from the land where your john Macdonald came from. Still people around here in North river you are related to.

[@iainfoxell8543]

@@beverlybrett7057 I have a family tree done by a cousin . Yes to what you say and they also moved around the country.

[@beverlybrett7057]

@@iainfoxell8543 That is great. I worked with the Museum to get all of the siblings acknowledged as children of first Malcolm MacDonald and Margaret McLeod - John sr. then with Jessie Ross . all the rest but he also had a third wife who they had no issue- Campbell. The siblings being Murdock who stayed in north River, the john jr and sr., Mary (john McLeod "fisherman') Margaret (James Fraser) Isabella (Murdoch McLeod - "squire's son) And two that he split the land between them and they remained in Pictou. Donald (?- can't remember offhand- if you don't know I will look it up. ) the Museum didn't have them all connected but they are now.

[@rebeccacerecke4511]

You are an awesome story teller, thankyou for refreshing my ancestors history, and making me proud of my Scottish heritage.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wow, thank you

[@maryannedouglas]

Our's is a much more modern story; we all hail out of Lochaber. My parents moved to the Netherlands when i was four, where my sister was born. Mum passed away while we were there and dad moved us to Sydney, where we've been ever since. To this day, my sister has a slight Dutch accent 😀 I've a wee girl now and am looking forward to bringing her to the Highlands, in the hope she'll start speaking properly.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂I hope she does. Now that's a story

[@anulfadventures]

I happen to find myself living in Pictou Nova Scotia and have been through St. Anne's Bay as well. I did not know this story. I think most of the Ministers sent over from Scotland had trouble with the locals enjoyment of a wee dram. Still they set up major educational centers that were a benefit to all of Canada.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Aye, true enough

[@HalifaxHercules]

I'm originally from Nova Scotia myself, and the story of Reverend MacLeod and his followers were never told in our Education System. It wasn't even taught in my home town, Halifax.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm doing live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

[@alansmithee8831]

A'reyt Bruce. I have no tales to compete, but on my tour of North America my friend and I were mistaken for Scottish or Irish. My friend having the forenames James Stewart allowed us to console the disappointment of us being northern English with tales of his ancestry. In Texas we were asked if we came all the way on the bus, having got off the Greyhound. No ship required? I got to Vancouver only to find my family there had moved further up the coast just before, having moved in stages across Canada, not so unlike the settlers in this story, looking for a better place. Beautiful location again. I just commented on a US channel, watched in numbers by folk down under, to look out for your videos and that you were touring there.

[@adtvanco]

enjoyed this-My great grandfather was born in 1837 and was cleared arriving as a 4 year old orphan in Pictou in 1841 . He had a brother who was probably adopted by another family(the widowed mother died on the voyage over ) The brother according to family lore left with the Normanites in the mid 1850's -we know the story but not his adopted name . I have been to Waipu but could not find him . My DNA says it's 77% Scottish from Sutherland /Caithness. Would love some day to hoist a wee dram in Dunrobin and compare bank accounts and see how they made out with the sheep Andrew Thanks!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

🤣🤣I hope you get that drink

[@hollywebster6844]

I'm so glad this channel appeared in my KZbin recommendations. You have a great ability to impart information and tell stories in an engaging manner. I'm looking forward to more stories and history of Scotland.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Welcome aboard!

[@karenmanderville154]

Another great video, thank you! My Scottish ancestors Goodfellows also went to Nova Scotia with my direct line then settling in New Bruswick, Canada who's children were very productive members of society

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm doing live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

[@stephengrace4198]

Love your delivery and story telling. Started watching your channel about Scottish Reivers re. my Johnson heritage via Londonderry, but my other Scots line (McLean) is via Nova Scotia to New Zealand on the last ship Ellen Lewis, though settled in Auckland, not Waipu. Recommend you look up John McLean's histories "Settlers and Sailors", "Clansmen and Colonists" or "Voyages of the Pioneers to NZ" for modern perspectives on these migrations. Keep up the good work.

[@beverlybrett7057]

Don't know if john Mclean let you know but i discovered all of the links between the Macmillans from St. ann's harbour and your mcLeans. They were first cousins. Murdoch mor' McLeans wife was isabella Macmillan. she was a sis ter to donald from north Gut the father of the 6 sons on gertrude and ellen lewis. I got the info from geneaologist of the Lake Ainslie area. if you want more info let me know.

[@stephengrace4198]

​@@beverlybrett7057 still hoping to hear from you

[@beverlybrett7057]

@@stephengrace4198 so you do want to know about macmillan cousins? and macKays

[@stephengrace4198]

@@beverlybrett7057 Are the McKay's the ones that landed at Coroglen?

[@charlotte2004jd]

Greetings to you from Waipu. I do hope you enjoyed our town. My great grandparents were from Applecross originally.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Now THERE is a beautiful spot

[@peterbassett3473]

Hi, My maternal ancestors were from this area too, Lochalsh, Gairloch, Poolewe and Ullapool. Donald and Christina McGregor with family were on the “Margaret” and Kenneth and Margaret Stuart with their family on the “Highland Lass” sailed from St Ann’s Harbour to Adelaide and then 17 mths and 11 mths later sailed together on the “Gazelle”, arrived in Auckland on 17 September 1853 to eventually settle in Taurikura, Whangarei Heads. Would cross the harbour to visit families in Waipu. Good to listen to this story told.

[@bryanclarke2553]

Thanks Bruce, great story. My mother's maternal ancestors arrived in nz on the highland lass.

[@peterbassett3473]

Me too, Donald and Christina McGregor and family on the “Margaret” and Kenneth and Margaret Stuart and family on the “Highland Lass” sailed to Adelaide and then 17 mths and 11 mths later sailed together on the “Gazelle”, arrived in Auckland 17 September 1853 to eventually settle in Taurikura, Whangarei Heads. Would cross the harbour to visit families in Waipu.

[@scottharnish]

As a Scottish descended Nova Scotian (who only recently discovered your channel) I love that I still get to learn new things about our shared history. I had never heard the story of Norman McLeod.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@R2Zmedia]

What a fantastic story! Love all your videos, but this one was extra special!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@fleurbee8360]

Hello Bruce, my family and I live in Lismore NSW. Are you going to the Clan Gathering in Maclean on the 7th & 8th of April? I think I remember you saying you were going to check out the veracity of their claim to be the most Scottish town in Australia. Anywho, hope you had a wonderful time in the Great Southern Land and the Land of the Long White Cloud. Safe journey as you return to the Mother Land. Cheers.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yes, I'll be there. Where’s the beer tent?

[@azzamat001]

Just saw your show in Auckland, New Zealand. It was excellent, and good fun. Thanks for the entertainment.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah thanks

[@maeveoc1]

As.a descendant of Norman this is certainly No Great Mischief and I truly appreciate and loved this!

[@annemacnaughtan3598]

Thank you so much for this video. You have filled in so many holes in my ancestry for me. I am a Kiwi of Scots descent but with links to Novia Scotia. I couldn't figure out what the link between Scotland, Novia Scotia and finally New Zealand was.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Wonderful!

[@acehighjohn1759]

Sounds like my Dad and his m8s journey to school 🤣 Loved this vid Bruce. Hope u enjoyed the trip.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😂😂

[@rksnj6797]

Bruce, as usual you deliver what you advertise. Incredible story of brave people!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I try

[@KathyAndrew]

First record of my Andrew family in America is a marriage record in 1671. Caroline county MD Would be fun to find when we first set foot in America. Have found other Andrew's in New Zealand, Australia, South Africa, Brazil, about anywhere ships from Scotland sailed.

[@melissavancleave8686]

Wonderful story, amazing storytelling. I so enjoy your humor. Thank you.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you so much!

[@kwilliams3287]

Great to see our wee village featured in your video. I wasn't expecting that!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

It was great to be there

[@chrisblester37]

These were late arrivals. In the early 1850s I had relatives digging the Morehouse tunnel through the port hills from Lyttelton to Christchurch. My great great Grandfather and his brother were at different ends and shock had when they meet in the middle. We are 7 or 8 generations in the country now

[@dougbrown9504]

What a story! Great video, thanks Bruce.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

My pleasure!

[@mutualbeard]

I have at least two Scottish great, great, great grandparents. They married in Sydney NSW in 1839. She was a McIntosh and he was from Perthshire. They settled near the coast near Kiama just south of Sydney with no need to move on as the water and soil were good.

[@nancyM1313]

Hi Bruce🌹🙋🏻‍♀️ Tfsharing these wonderful & informative uploads. Happy & Safe Travels always!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thank you kindly

[@barbaralavoie1045]

Hi Bruce, I’m checking out another of your videos with this migration of Scottish people. So interesting.☺️👍

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Guid lass

[@CampbellCornLab]

I have to listen to this again. Its an incredible story. It makes me exhausted just thinking about it.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

🤣

[@CampbellCornLab]

Turns out I have some Scott-Canadian-Australian Migrant relatives. Mine mostly were Scotland-Ulster-Lotbinière Regional County of Quebec-St. Lawrence-Sussex, Wisconsin. I've been going through records from the ancestry web site. Now I'm super glad I found this because it helps with the big picture! These are really great videos!!@@ScotlandHistoryTours

[@janetmackinnon3411]

What a story! Thank you again.

[@guytaylor-smith2819]

My great x 3 grand parents Mr Mrs Donald McDonald were on the vessel Spray. My great uncle NR McKenzie wrote a book, The Gael Fares Fofth about this migration

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@correctpolitically4784]

Just look where the dna comes from . Travelers who converged and made babies who travel even farther. A talent for sailing , a lack of fear , and curiosity.

[@darrylpatterson1091]

Thanks for the video, interesting and informative. My ancestors came out from Scotland by ship in 1838. Descendants are still here in South Australia. Settled in a dry farming area. Amazing to think what they were able to accomplish at the time under difficult conditions.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

True

[@dianehepper8764]

I just walked my ancestral path , Dumfries and Glasgow with my niece. It was interesting to visit the Robby Burns museum. I had no idea he was a tax man, exile. I was born in the UK but lived most of my life in BC the last ten years on Gabriola Island. Great show

[@DJYoue]

Great stuff as always Bruce, and a great idea of passing off a holiday as a work trip ;) In seriousness, keep up the good work!

[@dalriada842]

I loved the comparison between the old style Presbyterians, and the new style. I had to rewatch that part several times. Much hilarity was had on my part.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

😜

[@norwolf4765]

My maternal grand parents came from Argyle to Canada in the eighteen hundreds.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm doing live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

[@danndehn1081]

So there I was; sitting in my Regal Theater (UK owned) awaiting in great anticipation to enjoy yet another BBC movie released in particular theater Regal Theater near Rochester, NY. (I will keep this relatively short, or not die trying….). Lo and behold, not too long into the film, I suddenly see my favorite historian!! That was so flippin’ fun, unexpected and almost mind blowing. You were fantastic! A natural; but then that’s pretty well foretelling by your your YT videos. Perhaps you’ve already been in previous movie/tele productions, but I’m so glad that I caught you in The Lost King!!! That really made my day!!! Actually, days, I must say. Blessings!!! Oh, this history video was wonderful, as well….but I wouldn’t expect any less….

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

🤣🤣🤣

[@PiperMac55]

My family came from Perthshire and settled in North Glengarry (Eastern Ontario Canada) in 1807 (McIntyre’s) Peter joined the 42nd Royal Highlanders 1776 .

[@Crystalmelody68]

This us when my ancestors came from the Highlands. MacRae and MacLeod. I was in Scotland last year in late May. I love your videos.

[@Crystalmelody68]

Looking forward to the Quebec portion of your videos. This is where my family landed.

[@glennfolau6959]

Love this channel, I don't know what algorithm put this channel on my YT list, but I'm sure glad that it did. I have Pasifika heritage on my father's side and Scottish/North of England heritage on my mother's side. I know that my Great Grandfather was a MacMaster born in Scotland, he later lived in Liverpool, where he married my great grandmother. Sadly this story is not one of stoic or heroic proportions, I found out that he was a heavy drinker, and my great grandmother, who was a stern woman for the times, kicked him out. Much later my great grandmother, grandmother and mother emigrated to NZ after WW2. On a more positive note, I have had the good fortune to visit and travel through Scotland, even catching a football match, St Mirren vs Motherwell. I plan to do a road trip through the UK, hopefully making it up to Orkney, and catching some more football, hopefully more exciting than the nill all draw. Cheers, all the best.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@marksadventures3889]

Blasta!! Excellent. I think I've just found my Xanadu as the song says "At the end of the world". I've always seen Canada and New Zealand as the Scot's overfill. The place chosen to take all those who couldn't or wouldn't fit in back home. As a Macleod it's a story that had my attention immediately. I have folk on all those lands, My sons live in Canada, my daughter in Ireland, My cousins in Townsville, Cairns and Oakland and in Wellington and Christchurch. I think I'll visit but my heart belongs to the Black Coullins of Skye and the long sandy beaches of Lewis and Harris. I know where I want my ashes scattered, I doubt the cousins will allow me to be interned at Dunvegan, so the Black Coullins or The Atlantic ocean, free to roam. Gle mhath.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Yay

[@Davinawarth1]

That was weird… I recognise the little harbour/beach and the pizza bar, too funny. I love this place, I raised my children here and I was tickled pink to here of some of its history.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Brilliant

[@HowWeGotHere]

Great telling of this story. Bruce you definitely need to make it to Canada's East Coast, so many stories of Scot Settlers in Nova Scotia (particularily Cape Breton) Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick.

[@kathleenferguson3296]

The Gallic College at Nova Scotia is wonderful! I attended years ago. Gallic language, pipe playing, kilt wearing, fiddle lessons, everything a emigrant Scot needs to know. A friend attended last summer, and loved it! So did I, attending from the US. Poetry too. I sent her my Burns collection, along with my ballads collection. I'd like to talk to you about " Bonnie Susie Clennan", Bruce. Was it truly a real court case in Dundee?

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Working on it!

[@HowWeGotHere]

@Scotland History Tours message me and I can help arrange

[@coalminersgranddaughter]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours if you haven't, you should talk to Beverley Brett. She did a lot of research on these families here in Nova Scotia. My 3x great grandfather stayed here when his whole family left on this migration.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I did an interview with Bev for my Patreon members

[@TheUnhousedWanderer]

What a coincidence...my ancestor also owned a newspaper. The Quebec Gazette, Canada's largest paper at that time.

[@parisreid5792]

Born in Kintore Aberdeenshire. Mum and Dad moved us to Swindon Wiltshire where I went to school and Dad worked for British Leyland. Then up to Lynwood where Dad built Hillman imps and hunters. Finally back to Aberdeen to work on the oil industry. Met my lovely wife who was on her ‘OE’ from New Zealand, so after we got married it was off to Dunedin NZ we went. I lasted 30 years there before the hot weather and a job offer had us move to the Gold Coast of Australia. But I always yearn to go back home to Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ullman Imps.... now that takes me back

[@mysticpizza02]

Wow Bruce, brilliant video!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Thanks

[@sylviagibson4639]

My cousin from our Moodie ancestors, her side married the Sutherlands and immigrated to Canada.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'm doing live shows in Canada in 2024. Shows in Halifax, Annapolis, New Glasgow, Moncton, Montreal, Perth , Ottawa, Toronto, Fergus, Seaforth, Calgary, Vancouver and Victoria. Most of the details are here www.brucefummey.co.uk/shows.aspx

[@cathygillies7271]

Hi Bruce-- I recognized where you were immediately. We visited Waipu in 2012 with our son and daughter. We live in Cape Breton and know the story of Norman MacLeod well. The Waipu Museum is a treasure trove telling the story of the migration. We were touched to see all the household items the settlers brought with them, including Mi'kmaq moccasins. My husband's great grand-uncle Duncan Campbell and family sailed on the last ship --the Ellen Lewis in 1859 but stopped off in South Africa for a period of 2 years before sailing on to NZ and settling in the Auckland area. He was among a group who were not followers of Norman MacLeod but saw the opportunity of migrating further afield and took advantage of the trip. We keep in touch with some of the descendants. It was moving to see the names on the gravestones in the cemetery who were born in our local communities in Cape Breton and landed so far from home. The "Nova Scotians" as they were known in Waipu were a hardy bunch and were able to adapt quite well in their new surroundings. After building their own ships to sail there, they became intrepid shipbuilders and mariners in NZ. BTW, St. Ann's, Cape Breton is twinned with Waipu and there is lots of contact between the two places. We loved our visit to Waipu and ate at MacLeod's --great burgers!

[@lenabreijer1311]

Lol we are in the process of moving to nova Scotia because the winters are so mild.... but yes cape Breton is a beautiful but harsh land. A lot of NS is basically bedrock with a scattering of dirt. Only the Annapolis valley has good farm land and gentle climate. We used to joke that the pet rock craze came too late to save NS.

[@John_Mack]

As always, fantastic work! I have been tracing my roots as a lot of us do. I can go back to John Mack who arrived in Boston from Scotland in 1669. I can not find him in Scotland though. I can find many Mack's in Scotland during that time, mostly on the Low Lands. We are obviously not of a highland clan. I have also written a few books about the Mack's in Canada that stem from John Mack as well as a History and Heraldry of the Surname. Your KZbin channel has been partially responsible for all this interest. Again thanks!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Well done you

[@kirkmorrison6131]

Great video, and a great story, Thank, you, Sir

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Very welcome

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@ScotlandHistoryTours :-)

[@gordonmackenzie4512]

My family emigrated from Inverness to Alness when I was little. The Kessock and Cromarty bridges didn’t exist then, so it was a very long drive. Thankfully the family returned to Inverness 3 years later. Moving from Inverness-Shire to Ross-Shire was brief but not pain free. Sadly my youngest brother was born in Dingwall, Ross Memorial Hospital, so will forever be a Ross-Shire boy.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

What a traumatic tale

[@b95gshawn]

Thanks for filling in the story some as I had only known a bare skaliton of it,they laft for New Zealand.

[@Sadder302]

I’m McLennan and family lives and is from methven in South Island NZ

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Ah dammit, I didn't know there was a Methven. I would have made more of that whilst I was there, since it comes form Methven near me in Perthshire

[@Sadder302]

My father went there when he visited , methven in NZ in Canterbury

[@kennethmcausland5390]

Myself, 1965 on Cunard from Liverpool to Quebec/America.

[@benduston]

I think KZbin dropped my subscription because I’ve been missing a bunch of your videos and only just saw this one. Didn’t realise that you were down in my part of the world so that was a shock. Hopefully everything went well 😊

[@dalehargreaves966]

I’m a daughter of the Mathesons and Drakes ❤️🌿 Born in Whangarei. Now in VIC, Australia

[@youngcj4206]

My family also settled in NZ! Check out George Vesey Stewart, and Ulster Scot who founded Kati Kati and was the first mayor of Tauranga 🙂 We come from the Albany line.

[@margaretpeden6340]

Thank you your Great at telling Scottish history 😊😉👍

[@rymkervic123456]

You know, lm so grateful for you.

[@gravyvcolouredhair1731]

Proud Scottish Lineage of Jardine from Dumfires on my father's side and Highland clan Campbell of Argyll on my mother's. Hailing from Cape Breton Island Nova Scotia. Cave Adsum and Ne Obliviscaris.

[@ceilidhmckay9066]

Nice to see you in the best country in the world, next to Scotland!

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

I'll be back too

[@macilree]

Watching this video up the road from Waipu. We now live just north of Whangārei.

[@ScotlandHistoryTours]

Beautiful

[@zcal01]

My ancestors, James Blakie and family, left Roxburghshite, travelled on the ship ' Robert Henderson ', and landed in Port Chalmers in 1860. Eventually, they settled at Ryal Bush, Southland, New Zealand.