A little known article written by Henry Lucas of the University of Washington in 1945 examines the life of the Flemish John Crabbe, who had a wide-ranging career as a pirate, merchant and adventurer, some of it…
This is the second of a series of blog postings that discusses Flemish rooted names occurring in Scotland and their origins. In the first blog posting in the series (dated 27 September 2013) we set out a list of names…
As part of this blog series we will be examining evidence of Flemish immigrants settling in different parts of Scotland. The heaviest concentrations of Flemish appear to have been on the east, Flanders-facing, side of…
One of the goals of this blog series is to identify and discuss people of Flemish origin who have had a noteworthy impact on Scotland. In this blog article, Robin Evetts, our first guest blogger, examines the…
A DNA project associated with the Scotland and the Flemish People Project is now up and running. This will be an important complement to the project’s historical research. There are two key issues that DNA analysis…
One of the goals of the Scotland and the Flemish People Project is to develop a comprehensive list of family names in Scotland that have Flemish roots. Over the last year, we have compiled a preliminary list of…