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[MRS MAUREEN MEYER]

I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON MY ANCESTERS FROM SCOTLAND.<br>MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER BY THE NAME OF JAMES WELSH CAME IN LIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND FARMED IN HARRISMITH WHICH WAS THEN CALLED THE ORANGE FREE STATE. HE ARRIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA IN THE EARLY 1800'S AND HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, THE FEW NAMES I KNOW OF HIS MANY CHILDREN WERE JAMES, ARTHUR AND JOHN.<p>IN MAY OF 1998 I VISITED EDINBURGH AND MANAGED TO LOOK UP THE NAME OF WELSH IN ONE OF THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH NAMES AND SEE THAT THE NAME WELSH IS ALSO TIED UP WITH THE SURNAME WALSH - UNFORTUNATELY THE BOOK IN QUESTION NEVER MENTIONED A CLAN NAME OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION OTHER THAN THAT IT IS A SCOT'S SURNAME.<p>MY MOTHER WHO IS NOW IN HER 70'S REMEMBER'S SEEING HER UNCLES ON NEW YEAR EVE'S PLAYING THE BAG PIPES AND WEARING KILTS WITH YELLOW IN THEM WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL.<p>ANY INFORMATION ON THE WELSH/WALSH FAMILY WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.
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[MRS MAUREEN MEYER]

<br>: I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON MY ANCESTERS FROM SCOTLAND.<br>: MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER BY THE NAME OF JAMES WELSH CAME IN LIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND FARMED IN HARRISMITH WHICH WAS THEN CALLED THE ORANGE FREE STATE. HE ARRIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA IN THE EARLY 1800'S AND HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, THE FEW NAMES I KNOW OF HIS MANY CHILDREN WERE JAMES, ARTHUR AND JOHN.<p>: IN MAY OF 1998 I VISITED EDINBURGH AND MANAGED TO LOOK UP THE NAME OF WELSH IN ONE OF THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH NAMES AND SEE THAT THE NAME WELSH IS ALSO TIED UP WITH THE SURNAME WALSH - UNFORTUNATELY THE BOOK IN QUESTION NEVER MENTIONED A CLAN NAME OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION OTHER THAN THAT IT IS A SCOT'S SURNAME.<p>: MY MOTHER WHO IS NOW IN HER 70'S REMEMBER'S SEEING HER UNCLES ON NEW YEAR EVE'S PLAYING THE BAG PIPES AND WEARING KILTS WITH YELLOW IN THEM WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL.<p>: ANY INFORMATION ON THE WELSH/WALSH FAMILY WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.<p>
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[John O'Beirne]

<br>: I AM LOOKING FOR ANY INFORMATION ON MY ANCESTERS FROM SCOTLAND.<br>: MY GREAT-GREAT GRANDFATHER BY THE NAME OF JAMES WELSH CAME IN LIVE IN SOUTH AFRICA AND FARMED IN HARRISMITH WHICH WAS THEN CALLED THE ORANGE FREE STATE. HE ARRIVED IN SOUTH AFRICA IN THE EARLY 1800'S AND HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN, THE FEW NAMES I KNOW OF HIS MANY CHILDREN WERE JAMES, ARTHUR AND JOHN.<p>: IN MAY OF 1998 I VISITED EDINBURGH AND MANAGED TO LOOK UP THE NAME OF WELSH IN ONE OF THE BOOK OF SCOTTISH NAMES AND SEE THAT THE NAME WELSH IS ALSO TIED UP WITH THE SURNAME WALSH - UNFORTUNATELY THE BOOK IN QUESTION NEVER MENTIONED A CLAN NAME OR ANY OTHER INFORMATION OTHER THAN THAT IT IS A SCOT'S SURNAME.<p>: MY MOTHER WHO IS NOW IN HER 70'S REMEMBER'S SEEING HER UNCLES ON NEW YEAR EVE'S PLAYING THE BAG PIPES AND WEARING KILTS WITH YELLOW IN THEM WHEN SHE WAS A LITTLE GIRL.<p>: ANY INFORMATION ON THE WELSH/WALSH FAMILY WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.<br>Your ancestor may well have been from Scotland but the name is not Scots. According to MacLysaght, once the Irish Chief Herald, the name is Walsh from "Breathnach," meaning Welshman. It's pronounced "Welsh" in Connacht & Munster and is the 4th most popular name nowadays in Ireland. The actor, Kenneth Brannagh, is of your family.<br>
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