Ancestors of Iain John Carson McCraine from Scotland.

DNA Matches from John Morrison The DNA which matches so many Acadian French, is from a Scot, named,  John Morrison. John was the son of John Morrison 1702 1740 and his wife Elizabeth Alleson 1707.  John was the brother of James, Dugald, Margaret, Janet and Elizabeth (known). Leaving Scotland Increasing agricultural prosperity, industrial expansion, and British policy forbidding the emigration of skilled artisans all combined to account for the temporary decline of Lowland emigration to North America, while the proverbial if perverse loyalty of Highlanders to the British Crown helps explain their preference for the British colonies, especially after American independence.6 As one Scots settler wrote to his mother in 1783, "It's an impossibility for any loyal subject to remain (or any to return) in the United States for any one that's found in the country is . . . inhumanly dealt with by its ungovernable mobs and encouraged by their rulers". American host...