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People Connected to Ayrshire
Historic County of Scotland
Image right - Ayrshire within Scotland in 1890
See also
Ayrshire - Main Page
Historic Buildings of Ayrshire
Ayrshire, Monumental Inscriptions, Cemeteries and Graveyards
How to use this Page
- Please link any GENI Profiles with links to Ayrshire to this project.
- You can ALSO add the earliest heads of families to the list of Ayrshire Families on Geni below (don't forget to link their profiles to the project as well). These would usually be male! Please restrict people added to the list to the earliest head of family!
Note People with links to Ayrshire can be linked to the project but not necessarily added to the list below.
People connected to Ayrshire can also be linked to the following projects.
Clans
Historical and Political people
- accommodated by the project Historical Ayrshire (Link to follow) which covers the History of Ayrshire and historical/political people. Some of these are also listed in the Famous people category.
Famous or Notable People
Those people of note with connections to the county are listed below. Some of these connections are a little tenuous - counties like to lay claim to people of renown! Please visit Ayrshire - Famous People and add them to the listing there.
Emigrants
People from Ayrshire who went to the "New world" and were early progenitors in those countries. Where the earliest ancestor is known please add them to the list of "Ayrshire families on Geni" below if that was their roots, or to the appropriate county project.
Where the earliest known ancestor is the emigrant add them to the list below. In some cases if there is a project that covers them in detail please link the project.
Getting Involved
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To join the project use the request link under "actions" at the top right of the page.
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Geni Wikitext, Unicode and images which gives a great deal of assistance.
See the discussion Project Help: How to add Text to a Project - Starter Kit to get you going!
Heads of Ayrshire Families on Geni
Names with Bold links are to Geni profiles. Other links take you to external biographical web pages.
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Alexander Eccles
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- Kennedy
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Emigrants from Ayrshire
Please add the names of people from Ayrshire who settled in the "New World"
Americas
South America
United States
Australia
Canada
Jamaica
New Zealand
South Africa
1820 British Settlers in South Africa
Other Pages for People Connected to Scottish Counties
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People Connected to Argyllshire
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People Connected to East Lothian (Haddingtonshire)
People Connected to Edinburghshire (now Midlothian)
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People Connected to Kinross-shire
People Connected to Kirkcudbrightshire
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People Connected to Linlithgowshire (now West Lothian)
People Connected to Moray, Morayshire or Elginshire
People Connected to Nairnshire
People Connected to Peeblesshire
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People Connected to Renfrewshire
People Connected to Ross and Cromarty
People Connected to Roxburghshire
People Connected to Selkirkshire
People Connected to Stirlingshire
People Connected to Sutherland
People Connected to Wigtownshire
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