Is anybody here descended from Scottish families who left Scotland because of

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27. go play at scotlandspeople!

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Alexander Campbell married to Sarah, 1783 to 1790: Your search found 3 matches.

Without at least one more little piece of info about him, a parent's name from some record in the US, or a date of birth, something, identifying him in Scotland is just going to be not possible.

I imagine there's a good chance his marriage was in the US and he emigrated as a single man at the time.

I don't know much of anything about US records, other than the censuses. I did, a few years ago, establish that a young friend in NC is descended from a drummer in the Revolutionary War. She thought her gr-grfather had immigrated to the US in the 1890s under some false pretence. Once I figured out who he really was and got back two more generations, it was pie, since of course there are a gazillion other descendants from the drummer who have documented everything. Like with my families, though, nobody had bothered tracing her line.

Do you have your guy in early US censuses? Ages of children could be a clue to where and when he married. Oh rats, of course, early censuses don't show wives and kids. But you know which of his kids you're descended from, so you know date and place of birth for that one?