I was just wondering.......

[Mowsehowse]

Can Roots Chatters provide evidence that people who emigrated from UK gravitated to places named after their own home town?

[Kiltpin]

Can Roots Chatters provide evidence that people who emigrated from UK gravitated to places named after their own home town?

I don't know about "towns", but surely, the first wave must have come from the home town or area. Nova Scotia was populated by Scots, born in Scotland. As a child I saw the gravestones of a great many that were born in Glasgow.

Regards

Chas

[Mart 'n' Al]

I think a lot of people named their new home town after their original town, such as New York .  Even New England, named after the departure country.  And possibly New Hampshire. I'm not sure about that one but it seems likely.

Martin

[Gan Yam]

I think a lot of people named their new home town after their original town, such as New York .  Even New England, named after the departure country.  And possibly New Hampshire. I'm not sure about that one but it seems likely.

Martin

New York originally name New Amsterdam, seized by the British and renamed New York in honour of the Duke of York, later to become James II, so not named after former residents of York but likely originally named by the former residents of Amsterdam!

[Erato]

"I think a lot of people named their new home town after their original town"

Yes, and it happened within the United States, too.  Several families, including some of my own people, made the move from Medina County, Ohio to Outagamie County, Wisconsin.  Some of them took over a place known as 'Young's Corner' and renamed the village 'Medina.'

[Mowsehowse]

Thanks All.

I know that pioneers named new settlements after their old homes.

I wondered if 19th & 20th century emigrants gravitated towards places named for the place they had left.

[Erato]

Well, my mother was a 20th century immigrant but she didn't wind up in Bristol, Connecticut.

[arthurk]

I know that pioneers named new settlements after their old homes.

I wondered if 19th & 20th century emigrants gravitated towards places named for the place they had left.

If they did, maybe it wasn't so much because of the place name itself, but because it seemed like an indication that the people there would share their background and help them get settled.

In some cases, of course, the earlier immigrants would have been already known to them as relatives or friends.

[Mowsehowse]

If they did, maybe it wasn't so much because of the place name itself, but because it seemed like an indication that the people there would share their background and help them get settled.

In some cases, of course, the earlier immigrants would have been already known to them as relatives or friends.

Good point Arthurk