Kilgore and Jack Chronology of Records: Scotland, Ireland, American Colonies (original) (raw)
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Integrating History with the Kilgore and Jack Chronology of Records
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This manuscript organizes document verified research related to the Scots-Irish ancestors of James Kilgore and Elizabeth Jack who settled in Cumberland County, PA, USA by 1734. It is one of three continuously evolving research tools developed to organize the same core data in different ways: 1) Chronology of Records groups place and surname data by source for citation clarification. 2) Integration with History displays data chronologically with key historical markers as well as data and commentary regarding special research topics such as Culdees, legends, mormaerdom vs. monarchy. 3) Mapping Spreadsheet charts and annotate the data geographically and across time. Because this research has been broad, the author’s manuscripts can be useful to many researchers of the surnames Kilgour / Kilgore and Jacques / Jack. As a research tool, “Integrating History” was designed to help me visualize the data in “Chronology of Records” (which is organized by source) within the historical context. Data were added from “Find My Past” and Fife Death Index. “Integrating History” is also the place where I explore the meaning of related topics that caught my attention: Culdees, legends about the families, MacDuff thanage and descendancy in relation to the monarchy, and how all of these seem to intersect around Kilgour. In the “Integrating History” document the organization is foremost chronological. Data from the “Chronology of Records” document are repeated here in a long list along with significant historical events and characters. Researchers can link surname data and Kilgour Church / Lands of Kilgour data identified in the “Chronology of Records” with history, then use the information toward achieving their own goals. Or, having located pertinent persons /records and events on the “Integrating History” timeline, one can refer to “Chronology of Records” to find correct sources for citations. Some researchers might prefer to just read through “Integrating History” as a narrative and see what they notice, what surprises them, what patterns they see. Many citations are included on the “Integrating History” timeline as well, especially for special topics and discussion of inferences, and specifically the Fife Death Index. But the intention is that the reader / researcher use this document for historical context, then find sources and citations for place and surname data on the “Chronology of Records”.
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The production of a general history is an important and challenging task. In his book, A History of the English People in 1815, the French historian, Élie Halévy, makes a strong case for the synthetic approach to history. According to this view, the generalist 'is better able to guard against excessive simplifications and to make us realise the complexity and variety of the strands which, woven together, compose the facts of history'. Tom Devine is an adept weaver of strands into a seamless, analytical narrative. His book contains separate chapters on urban and rural life, education, women, immigration and emigration. On account of my position as Ireland's Consul General in Scotland, I am apt to make historical comparisons across the Irish Sea. There is much to muse about. Besides both having a complex relationship with their populous Anglo-Saxon neighbour, Scotland and Ireland are countries of similar size, population and geographical location, but, at least in the three centuries covered by The Scottish Nation, an apparently vastly different historical record.
The society of the Kingdom of the Scots in the central Middle Ages has long been viewed as experiencing a transition from `old', `Celtic' ways to `new' English norms. This process was once neatly described as `Normanisation', and if such straightforward terms have been abandoned, historians nevertheless still tend to portray political, social, legal, cultural and religious traits of that society as either `Celtic' or `Anglo-Norman'. Recent work on ethnicity in general, and on the ways medieval people often used ethnic identity for political purposes in particular, necessitates a new approach to the society of the kingdom's heartland, north of the Forth. This thesis examines the aristocracy of Scotland north of Forth through the lens of Europeanization, a conceptual framework that is less insular than previous models and more nuanced in its understanding of the role of ethnicity in the sweeping changes that took place across Europe in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. 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Second, this thesis offers several new findings based on the prosopographical analysis of the charter material, which help to hone our understanding for how Europeanization worked in Scotland. It is now clear that, while the adoption of charters should certainly be seen as a Europeanizing trend, their use by aristocratic landholders followed several stages, none of which adhered to any ethnic bias. This study reveals the prominence of networks in spreading charter use, including one focussed around Countess Ada and other related countesses, in the early stages of aristocratic charter use. 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