Ancestry/Genealogy

My Scottish ancestor I do know was in the vicinity of Jamestown VA in 1630 as there's absolute verification of his arrival "from across the sea." He came to avoid death at the hands of King James for being involved in the Protestant plot to kill Mary Queen of Scots. He went on to become a farmer and had only one son. This ancestor's father in Scotland had been a "practitioner of the black arts," so the witch thing was involved. I don't think they were witches. I think they were herbalists & doctors.

My Scottish relatives seem to have been very clannish & inbred, as they married VA and NC Scots so much they actually had some cousins bring the branches of the family tree together again in the mid-1800's....

Anyway--thanks for generating all this helpful info on the subject of Scottish ancestry. I still want to know more about the family in Scotland before 1600 if I can get any info that far back.