Genealogy /
Mothers maiden name - Gladys [17]
Interesting for the discussion about the name Gladys and where ist comes from, possibly over Scottish immigrants: "In the 17th century, Poland was described as ‘Scotland’s America’. Contemporaries estimated that 15,000-40,000 Scots were settled in Poland mainly as merchants, peddlers and craftsmen. This mass migration is largely forgotten in modern Scotland, though is remembered still in Poland. The names of the descendants of Scots immigrants are still to be found in Polish phone books, such as Ramzy from Ramsay, or Czarmas from Chalmers. Danzig still has many Scottish street names and villages in the hinterland are named after the Scots - Dzkocja, Skotna Góra, Szotniki or Szoty."
My mothers family is from Człuchów, now Poland. I had a genetic test of my maternal line and I have a lot of genetic cousins in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England.
