Hi i have recently come across information about the plantation locally and it seems that the land here was owned by Lord McClelland from Kirkcudbright and his wife Lady McClelland it looks like they have brought alot of people over with them most likely my ancestors, that is what i'm wondering about. Would all have the planters have came from Kirkcudbright or the north of england and the rest of southern scotland? Because looking at the 1630 muster rolls for here there are lots and lots of surnames which are not to be found in kirkcudbright most of whom are from the north of england such as Carruthurs which is from northumbria, would this mean that they highered people from all over southern scotland and Northern england then? Because i had always thought that the people they brought where people who lived on their estates in kirkcudbright, on that do they have any other estates in the scotland or england that i am not aware of that they could have brought people from?I have found reference to someone possibly from my family and by going by the spelling it looks as though he is from Northern england i have looked at familysearch.org for references at that time and every single one of them is from Northumbria. Is there any books on the estate that tell (i know there are estate records but i dont think they tell you where the people came from) you where the people who rented out each plot of land came from?
