Excerpt from Isabella Thoburn Scotch-irish ancestry. - I. The Thobm'ns in Ireland - The Scotch - Irish are held in high esteem in America. So marked is this esteem that the aver age Protestant Irish family, when it begins to pros per, makes minute search for the dash of Scotch blood that is supposed to greatly enrich it and se cure the family in popular esteem. The Thoburns were originally Scotch, probably sprung1 from Scandinavian ancestors. In the seventeenth cen tury a portion of the family moved to the neighbor hood of Belfast, Ireland. Here early in the last century one of the Thorburns, whose name by Irish attrition had come to be Thoburn, married Miss Crawford, and together they emigrated to the United States, - that Beulah Land toward which Irish eyes have looked longingly for a hundred years and never more eagerly than now. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.