Re: William & Margaret Redford
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In reply to:
Re: William & Margaret Redford
11/12/99
Not being an English/Scottish scholar by any stretch of the immagination, I do have an old book "A History of England and Greater Britain" by Arthur Cross.
Until the Act of the Union in 1707, Scotland had remained Scotland and England the same. By that act they became "Great Britain" under one parliament. Scotland's boundaries appear to be the same since the rein of Edward I in the 13th century.
I doubt any Scot would have called himself a "northern Britain" prior to 1707 or thereafter for a good number of years. Maybe a Britain who moved across the border would have done so (only after he was not in earshot range of any Scot). The 1707 union was called by the Scots as a marriage by an unconsenting spouse.
It appears your William Redford left Great Britain long before the unionization. In 1725 someone in America could have called Scotland "nothern Britain" (probably not in front a true scotsman or Highlander).
Larry Anderson
Crosby, Texas