Our British Heritage - Volume II

About the Book

Our British heritage and the Fight for Independence and Freedom, depicts the Scotch, who came mostly from Ulster Ireland, from the Welsh and other ancestry, and from England. It is about those who felt compelled to leave their homeland, largely because of English oppression and for religious reason. Two thirds of General Washington’s army and the first settlers in the United States at the onset were of Scottish ancestry. Reasons for emigration to America were based on a complex, multifactorial and pleury-facetted inter-relationship between peoples of different ethnicity, and religious convictions, beginning long before 1292 when King Edward I of England tried to gain control of Scotland.

About the Author

Merlene received her education in Accounting and Journalism. She is known through Marquis Whose Who in the World, and through the pages of various Who’s Who publications by the International Biographical Centre where she is Deputy Director to its Director General from the Headquarters in Cambridge, in England. She exhibited her artwork, history books and genealogy at Oxford University and Cambridge University, England, New Orleans, La, and Lisbon, Portugal, in addition to South Carolina. She has traced her genealogy to Adam and Eve through royal families from the heritage of both her mother and father. Kiwanis International selected her as a distinguised member for the 2004-2005.