90,000 Scottish Immigrants in Poland!

Painted people - a lot of "celtic" designs are actually Pictish. I would say I am more of a Pict than a Scot. Due to looks and geography.

odd...wtf is Pictish...


None of this surprises me because Polish and Slavic people have a long history with the Saxons, Vikings and Normans. Its also why this part of Europe Austria upwards is a lot `whiter` than other parts of Europe.

A wearer of woad then? Will you be changing your name to Piktja2008 and getting a nice new Piktja to go with it for your avatar?


Try reading this - Piktowie
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piktowie

The 'good guys (and one Keira Knightley)' in 'King Arthur' movie.

Thanks! I read the English version because the Polish would take me all day and tomorrow :)


Oh good, so they're not villains :)

I'm not sure. They paint themselves blue, and that's the colour of Rangers Football Club.

Of course they are the good guys - they tended to be taller and fairer than the Scots.


You have been in Glasgow too long Bart, you should go north young man - sample the real Scotland !

This is not surprising. Many things like this happened in the past. Have a look at this from another thread:

https://polishforums.com/usa-canada/american-people-attitude-towards-poles-13890/

"From 1670 to 1710, between 40,000 and 50,000 (French) Huguenots moved to England." At the time the population of England was 5,240,000. See this site for more information.

oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1720&chapter=77639&layout=html

At this time it is thought that 400,000 Polish people have moved to the UK where the current population is about 60,587,000. See this site for confirmation:

statistics.gov.uk/CCI/nugget.asp?ID=6

It is also thought that one in every four English people have French Huguenot ancestry.

These sites have more information on this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huguenot

bbc.co.uk/legacies/immig_emig/england/london/article_1.shtm

Sure thing - when the wet season finishes and the slightly less wet season starts :)

If your serious about tracing your Scottish heritage,do us all a favour and stop talking about Scotch...Scotch is a drink,the word you are looking for is Scots.


No,bubba spelled it wrong Im afraid,the word he is refering to is 2Wallah",ie tea wallah,,House Wallah etc,its from one of the Indian languages and like so many words in current use in the UK comes from the days of the RAJ. Like kahki and bungelow and shuftie and kharzi etc etc.

I agree, "Glasgow with Style" is a joke. Go north or venture ten miles towards west where you'll find a neat little town they call Paisley :-)

Maybe he has Scotch in his blood, LOL. Now, as for heritage, that's another matter

and could you please do me a favour and think before you actually say something?

in the first part of my sentence i meant scotch as whisky and in the second part i mean scotch blood as in scottish blood.

Scotch \Scotch\, a. [Cf. Scottish.]
Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its
inhabitants; Scottish.
[1913 Webster]

aw man you need an effin immigrant to teach you your own language @_@


lol... if you`re talkin about me then please note that the `he` is actually a `she` :)

ffs why not everyone from southern Scotland move north.

Hehe Scotch in the blood :)

Ahh, I understand. Thanks for the info. :)

dictionary.reference.com/browse/walla

Probably we'd say "I have Scots/Scottish blood" rather than "Scotch". We generally say we're Scottish or Scots, some people do take offense at being called "Scotch". :)

i didn`t know that. sorry, i didn`t mean to offend anyone :) always thought scottish = scotch

There is vilage Szkocja (Scotland) in noth east Poland

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szkocja_(województwo_podlaskie)

name comes form Scottish settlers (19th century) till today there is a lot of red haired people.

This process was made by Ludwik Michał Pac who brought Scottish, English and German imigrants.

And vilages had names coming from places of their origin.

Szkocja, Linton, New York (dziś: Pruska Wielka), Bromfield (Józefowo), Longwood (Ludwinowo) i Berwick (Korytki)

some have their old names some today have different.

I don't think you offended anyone. I wasn't offended anyway. :) Scotch is a drink that the Scots like to drink :)

I wasn't either :)

Lukasz, looks like you have a lot of information about the subject of scottish immigrants in poland in 16-17th centuries. if there`s anything you know about the scots settling in around the poznan area, particularly the ostrow wielkopolski area then i would be grateful if you could share it with me, please :)

PolskaDoll, i used to have a scottish teacher (teaching english in my hometown) and when i told him that i like scotch with coca cola he almost got a heart attack :)

wow, that`s cool. they`re keeping their scottish heritage over there alive

Haha, yes, it would most likely be taken straight or "on the rocks" :)


It's not surprising :)

i knew one polish girl from warsaw i used to work with, she was a proper barmaid (acutally bar manager), she knew a lot about drinks, coctails, wine etc and she introduced me to scotch with ginger beer. i must admit, it goes well together. personally i`m too sensitive to drinking scotch straight (and other spirits) so i have to have it mixed but that girl was tough, she would pour it straight into her mouth like a canister.

form article I have read comes that rather not ... they brought some scots for festival (kind of fun or to see their roots) ;)


forum.histmag.org/index.php?topic=3393.msg108143

main discussion is about Dutch imigrants in Poland, later there are some informations abour Sctotish settlement in Poland.

as to Poznan there was so many immigrants comming from different countries ... I don't know detalis. There are some infos that among Germans, Hungarians, Italians were Scots (I don't know details)

many thanks, Lukasz :)

Several tens of thousands of Scots settled in the area around Danzig in the early to mid C17 due to religious strife in Scotland and religious tolerance in Poland at the time. Napierkowski, for example, is a Polonised Scots name.

There wer a fw Scots came over to Poland for the Northern Crusades (with the Teutonic Knights). Szkotowo, near Nidzica was founded in 1348. Nidzica was founded later by the Teutons.

The website electricscotland.com has 3 old books which have information about Scots in Poland/Germany/Prussia (they are from 1902, 1903, 1916 so they talk about Gdansk, Poznan etc as being in Germany).

Another book worth reading is "Agents of Change: Scots in Poland 1800-1918" by Mona K McLeod (Tuckwell Press 2000).

For those who wonder about clans, not all Scots names are connected to clans, particularly if they are lowlanders, as many settlers were.

So Scotlands biggest hero was a foriegner....he was probably a Geordie:)

Glad to hear you are proud of your scottish roots scarbyirp, i live in Scotland, my grandfather moved from Poland to UK after WW2, i am also very proud of my polish roots, however he changed his surname from Rogalski to Rogers (don't know why) i am sad as i would love to have my rightful scottish surname :(