The Name’s the Same: Scottish Placenames Worldwide

During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, emigrant Scots were responsible for borrowing many names for new settlements from places in their original homeland, and what Conroy has attempted to do in this book is track down hundreds of those names in those territories where various waves of the diaspora came to rest. Most, not surprisingly, are in the English‐speaking parts of the world ‐ USA, Canada, the Caribbean, Australia, New Zealand, southern and central Africa and even on Tristan Da Cunha. There are places called Douglas and Hamilton almost everywhere.

The first part of the book deals in turn with...