Rising above the provincial

      Picture from The Scotsman A friend once described me as “The man who is always somewhere else.” I grew up in Edinburgh for my first six years, then lived in the north of England for over a decade, and returned to Scotland for good, as an eighteen year old. My family is

Annie and Ellen

Picture copyright – Brooklyn Public Museum Genealogy is a capricious beast. My grandfather and four of his five siblings emigrated from Co Leitrim to Brooklyn in the late 19th century. After a few years, grandad and his brother re-crossed the Atlantic and joined  their other brother in Edinburgh. The three girls never returned, and, having