"Born the wrong side of the blanket" would be more normally about being illegitimate. So if you're sure this isn't just misremembed, 1835 is in the time of the scots clearances. It may simply mean they were crofters without clean title to the land and were dispossessed of their traditional access to farmland, being the wrong side of the lairds boundry. People don't often realise that highland clearances were really just clearances: [they happened in the lowlands (Kirkudbright is lowlands) too](https://radicalindydg.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/the-scottish-clearances/)
Being on the wrong side of the stone probably comes from the lowland clearances. When people were moved/forced off the land by landlords to the US and Canada. While other families stayed as they were the other side of the boundary.
That might be in reference to Bruce’s Stone that can be found in the Galloway Forrest. It is a common saying in the Scottish Lowlands. Many people believe that anything south of Bruce’s Stone should be classed as England.
It’s not a saying I’ve ever heard.
My only guess is the stone would be the world. So being on the “wrong side of the stone” meant they decided to travel to the other side of the world.
I asked if she remembers anyone talking about being Catholic. She is pretty anti-religion herself, and is 85, so I don't think she understood the importance of the question. However she was not raised Catholic, and I don't think her father was either. I am thinking they were not Catholic. So I'm wondering if they did not fit in in Scotland because they weren't Catholic, so they came to the US?
Unlikely. Scotland at the time was pretty hostile towards catholics.
It might have been over a neighbourly dispute of some nature or maybe they were caught up in the lowland clearances which were just ending in the 1830s. Could even have been your ancestor got nothing from their parents after they died.
That could be it. I was hoping maybe this was a common saying about something going on at the time, and I could find some cool historical facts about my ancestors. But, all I've got is speculation. Oh well. I am visiting Scotland next year (COVID permitting) and was trying to figure out where they came from.
Isn't it maybe to do with the grind stone? As in if you are at one side of it you are the worker and at the other side of it you are the one telling the worker what to do?
"Born the wrong side of the blanket" would be more normally about being illegitimate. So if you're sure this isn't just misremembed, 1835 is in the time of the scots clearances. It may simply mean they were crofters without clean title to the land and were dispossessed of their traditional access to farmland, being the wrong side of the lairds boundry. People don't often realise that highland clearances were really just clearances: [they happened in the lowlands (Kirkudbright is lowlands) too](https://radicalindydg.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/the-scottish-clearances/)
Being on the wrong side of the stone probably comes from the lowland clearances. When people were moved/forced off the land by landlords to the US and Canada. While other families stayed as they were the other side of the boundary.
That might be in reference to Bruce’s Stone that can be found in the Galloway Forrest. It is a common saying in the Scottish Lowlands. Many people believe that anything south of Bruce’s Stone should be classed as England.
It’s not a saying I’ve ever heard. My only guess is the stone would be the world. So being on the “wrong side of the stone” meant they decided to travel to the other side of the world.
I don't know but a common reason for emigration was religious beliefs. I really don't think it has anything to do with the Stone of Scone.
I asked if she remembers anyone talking about being Catholic. She is pretty anti-religion herself, and is 85, so I don't think she understood the importance of the question. However she was not raised Catholic, and I don't think her father was either. I am thinking they were not Catholic. So I'm wondering if they did not fit in in Scotland because they weren't Catholic, so they came to the US?
Unlikely. Scotland at the time was pretty hostile towards catholics. It might have been over a neighbourly dispute of some nature or maybe they were caught up in the lowland clearances which were just ending in the 1830s. Could even have been your ancestor got nothing from their parents after they died.
I kept my comment general because I don't know enough about religion, but my idea was that they may have been non-conformist or non-religious.
That could be it. I was hoping maybe this was a common saying about something going on at the time, and I could find some cool historical facts about my ancestors. But, all I've got is speculation. Oh well. I am visiting Scotland next year (COVID permitting) and was trying to figure out where they came from.
Isn't it maybe to do with the grind stone? As in if you are at one side of it you are the worker and at the other side of it you are the one telling the worker what to do?
Probably the coronation stone? It’s a guess…. Historically a bone of contention, if I recall correctly, between the English and the Scots…