re: #242 Nojay UK

By the mid-1700s the Crown had little political leverage and no power of taxation, it was all up to Parliament.

So I was onto something when I picked 1707 as the Union as that is when the British Parliament happened when the English and Scottish bodies united, right?

The Lairds/Lords did not really mind sending all the peasants to the colonies.

Problem for us descendants of said peasants, is that they did not have the ability to pass on their family histories. Much of the family histories just faded away, gone when the immigrants died.

The poor do not have history. The rich and powerful, the somebodies, are the ones who have history.

They write the history.