Traditional Porteous Coat-of-Arms


BIBLIOGRAPHY


The Porteous Story
by Barry Porteous (published in a limited edition, Kingston, Ontario, Canada, 1980)

Porteous Australia
by Roger Porteous (published privately, Melbourne, Australia, 2001)

A History of Peeblesshire
edited by James William Buchan and Rev Henry Paton (Jackson, Wylie & Co, Glasgow, 1925–27)

The Surnames of Scotland – Their Origin, Meaning and History
by Dr George F Black (New York Public Library, 1946 – reprint edition, 1999)

Emigration From Europe 1815–1930
by Dudley Baines (Studies in Economic and Social History, Macmillan, 1991)

The Famine Ships – The Irish Exodus to America 1846–51
by Edward Laxton (Bloomsbury, 1996)

The Population History of Britain and Ireland 1500–1750
by RA Houston (Studies in Economic and Social History, Macmillan, 1992)

The Population of Britain in the Nineteenth Century
by Robert Woods (Studies in Economic and Social History, Macmillan, 1992)

The Highland Clearances
by John Prebble (Penguin Books, 1969)

The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860
by Marcus Lee Hansen (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1941)

Migration and Mobility in Britain Since the 18th Century
by Colin Pooley and Jean Turnbull (UCL Press, 1998)

Land of the Eagle – A Natural History of North America
by Robert McCracken Peck (BBC Books, 1990)

Dorling Kindersley Atlas of World History,
General editor, Professor Jeremy Black (Dorling Kindersley, 1999)

The Tweedie Archive
by Michael Forbes Tweedie, (published 1902, republished 1998 by Andrew and Pauline Tweedie)


Members of the Porteous Family killed in World Wars I and II
by Richard Porteous (published privately, 2000)

A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to the USA
compiled and edited by Donald Whyte (Magna Carta Book Company, Baltimore, 1972)

Scots in the USA and Canada, 1825–1875 – Part Two
by David Dobson (2001)

The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1612–1783
by David Dobson (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1989)

Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607–1785
by David Dobson (University of Georgia Press, 1994)

Directory of Scots Banished to the American Plantations – 1650–1775
by David Dobson (Genealogical Publishing Company, Baltimore, 1984)

Migration Patterns of our Scottish Ancestors
by Myra Vanderpool Gormley (American Genealogy magazine, 2000)

The History of Dumfries and Galloway
by Herbert Maxwell

James Porteous: Fresno's Forgotten Inventor
Fresno – Past and Present, Vol 23, No 4, Winter, 1981
by M Ortiz

Going Abroad – The Fortunes of Early Scottish Migrants to New Zealand
by John MacGibbon (Ngaio Press, Wellington, New Zealand)

Scotland – The Shaping of a Nation
by Gordon Donaldson (David St John Thomas, Nairn, Scotland, 1974)

A History of the Scottish People – 1560–1830
by T.C. Smout (Fontana - Harper Collins, London, 1969)

American Colonies (The Penguin History of the United States)
by Alan Taylor, (Viking Penguin, New York, 2001)

Many Thousands Gone – The First Two Centuries of Slavery in North America
by Ira Berlin (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1998)




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