Owen Wright

Have a great National Tartan Day everyone!

Completed a little side research project yesterday. I located my friend Stephanie's Scottish great-grand parent's immigration documents. They left Arbroath Scotland via Liverpool and the steamship "Ba...

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Completed a little side research project yesterday. I located my friend Stephanie's Scottish great-grand parent's immigration documents. They left Arbroath Scotland via Liverpool and the steamship "Baltic" in 1920 with their two sons. They arrived at Ellis Island on October 1, 1920 and eventually joined family in Battle Creek, Michigan. The only glitch is that the English and U.S. authorities spelled their last name wrong which was the reason no one had found the information before now.

I find this to be very cool....especially on the eve of NATIONAL TARTAN DAY.

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"For we fight not for glory, no riches, no honours, but for freedom alone, which no good man gives up except with his life." From the Declaration of Scottish Independence at Abroath Abbey in 1320

I have only seen the Highland Cattle only a couple of times here in the U.S. I grew up on a cattle farm in South Georgia where we raised Black Angus....which are an equally beautiful breed.

Appears to have been abandoned during the 1940s.