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Question:I always thought the Protestants in Northern Ireland came from England, but I just found out some of them were Scottish. I wonder if the Irish Protestants in my family tree could have Scottish roots? The last name is Fuller.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I always thought the Protestants in Northern Ireland came from England, but I just found out some of them were Scottish. I wonder if the Irish Protestants in my family tree could have Scottish roots? The last name is Fuller.

Mostly Scottish, hence terms such as "Ulster-Scots" used over there. All types of nationalities however were moved there.

(BBC - "The ratio of Scottish to English settlers in Ulster during the 17th century has often been put at five or six to one, with one rough estimate reckoning there were 100,000 Scots and 20,000 English at the time of the rebellion of 1641.")

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Methodist is "British" - it was however less common in Scotland.

There are Protestants in Ireland with original roots in England. However, in Northern Ireland, Scots settled there and they are mostly Presbyterian. However, there are some English among them. The term Scotch-Irish applies to them in the U.S. It indicated that they were racially Scottish but geographically they came from Ireland.

There were even some Norwegian viking blood lines hence a lot of reddish blond hair and blue eyes.

Most of them were from Scotland & arrived in Ulster at the time of James VI & I of England, during what was called the Plantations.