tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379581147262228210.post7726530236818218782..comments2024-03-26T13:17:29.405-04:00Comments on Outlandish Observations: An OUTLANDER-related adventure (Part 3)Karen Henryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07635855088490793965noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379581147262228210.post-23295962247520751712022-06-08T10:39:38.993-04:002022-06-08T10:39:38.993-04:00Anne Lough is a wonderful teacher. She came and...Anne Lough is a wonderful teacher. She came and taught our mountain dulcimer group in Mebane, NC a couple of years ago. I will try to post a photo of a wooden dulcimer of the type the Scots Irish developed in those mountains. It's a unique instrument and fun to play.<br /><br />Regarding the German settlers, I do genealogy, and my husband's family was part of that settlement. German Reformed followers came south on the Great Wagon Road too, and many settled in Guilford and Alamance Counties, NC. The group in Salem were Moravians, and while there was not discord between the two groups, there wasn't much mingling, either. Many of the older families clung to German as a first language up into the mid 1800s, and my husband's ancestor actually moved to Rockingham Co. NC so his children could learn English.<br /><br />My own family is English, Scots, Welsh, and French, with a line of Hugenots - French Protestants who came to the Americas to practice religious freedom, so you'll find names like Follett, Morisset, Chastain, Robinette, Faucette and Marlette in the Piedmont areas of NC and VA. NC is truly a melting pot - of the Native Americans, African Americans, escaped indentured Europeans, plus the English, Scots, Irish, German and French<br />Martihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10018198635378300483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7379581147262228210.post-12909012875426989892022-06-07T23:52:47.473-04:002022-06-07T23:52:47.473-04:00My maternal grandfather's family were from the...My maternal grandfather's family were from the NC mountains. (Rutherford and Cleveland counties, mostly.) Most of them came to NC from Virginia, but a few were from Pennsylvania, Maryland, and South Carolina. They were Irish, English, German, Scottish, Dutch, and Welsh. With a little bit of French as well. There may have been some Cherokee (my grandpa always told me about his Indian grandma brushing her long, dark hair), but I can't get any further back than the mid 1800s with that particular line to find out and haven't found many records for them.<br /><br />My grandpa used a lot of expressions and pronunciations that mountain folk use. I've yet to visit the towns he and his family lived in. I really should do that some day. My grandpa was at Fort Bragg when he was in the army and met my grandma while there. So they settled in Cumberland (more of a spot than a town, outside of Fayetteville), after moving back and forth a couple times.Nikihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09936343470015553888noreply@blogger.com