[or-roots] chat

[Harguess, Dale]

It would be interesting to look at the census from 1850 to see if there
were any Scottish people living there.  I have recently been doing
research on Paisley Scotland and that is why I asked the question.  It
turns out to be the largest city in Scotland.  Even bigger than Glasgow.
The cloth Paisley was named after the city, not vise-versa.  It turns
out that they were a weaving community many hundreds of years ago.
Just a little trivia fyi.
Dale

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Harguess, Dale wrote:

>I wonder if it was named after Paisley, Scotland?
>

That is one 1873 theory, but McArthur easily debunks it, so it makes one

wonder ...  another theory is named by another Scotsman, Steele, reason 
unknown -- of course, those earlier Paisly settlers called it something 
else 10,000 years before it was ever seen by the white guy's eyes, and 
probably many, many other native names in between ...

Bill Strickland
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