His father, George A. Mercer, was descended from an honored Southern family that could trace its ancestry back to one Hugh Mercer, who had emigrated from Scotland in 1747.

His parents were Scots-Irish colonists Andrew and Elizabeth Hutchinson Jackson, Presbyterians who had emigrated from Ireland two years earlier.

The religious communal society known as the Shakers emigrated from England during the 18th century and developed their own folk dance style.

Brooks is Jewish ; his grandparents emigrated from Austria and Russia.

Strabo confirms that the Boii emigrated from their lands across the Alps and were one of the largest tribes of the Celts.

There were 207 Swiss men and 271 Swiss women who emigrated from Switzerland.

Another group emigrated to British-ruled Kenya, from where most returned to South Africa during the 1930s, while a third group under the leadership of General Ben Viljoen emigrated to Mexico and to New Mexico and Texas in south-western USA.

* took a dim view of any proposals which did not allow for the repatriation of Turkish settlers from the mainland who had emigrated to Cyprus since 1974 ; and

She emigrated from England with her parents in 1871 when she was 18, where they settled in Brooklyn, New York.

His earliest American ancestor, John Coolidge, emigrated from Cottenham, Cambridgeshire, England, around 1630 and settled in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Her family is Jewish, and her grandparents emigrated from Russia.

Its use began to develop from this original sense when the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek ; in Ancient Greece the term διασπορά ( diaspora ) meant " scattering " and was used to refer to citizens of a dominant city-state who emigrated to a conquered land with the purpose of colonization, to assimilate the territory into the empire.

In July 1969, El Salvador and Honduras fought the 100-hour Football War over disputed border areas and friction resulting from the 300, 000 Salvadorans who had emigrated to Honduras in search of land and employment.

Elements of the latter may have generated the Bubi, who emigrated to Bioko from Cameroon and Río Muni in several waves and succeeded former Neolithic populations.

Their grandfather, David Poe, Sr., had emigrated from Cavan, Ireland, to America around the year 1750.

His parents emigrated from Poland in 1863, changed their name from Pozerski to de Pomiane, and became French citizens.

Anna was a member of the large, prosperous and well-known Lloyd Jones family of Unitarians, who had emigrated from Wales to Spring Green, Wisconsin.

The family was originally from Germany, being descended from Jean-René Bönickhausen, who emigrated from Marmagen and settled in Paris at the beginning of the eighteenth century.

Efim Bogoljubov, who had emigrated from the Soviet Union to Germany, was not entered in the first class of Grandmasters, even though he had played two matches for the World Championship with Alekhine.

On his father's side, Cleveland was descended from English ancestors, the first Cleveland having emigrated to Massachusetts from northeastern England in 1635.

After this event many Jews emigrated, in two waves ; some fled to the Muslim lands of the Ottoman Empire, but many also went to Christian Europe, first to northern Italy, then to the Netherlands, and later to England.

He emigrated to Kentucky, United States around 1900, established a successful tile and terrazzo company, then returned to Italy to marry and start a family.

According to the accounts of historian Diodorus Siculus and geographer Strabo, the area's first permanent settlers were the mountain-dwelling Ligures, who emigrated from their native city of Genoa, Italy.

* Philoctetes, due to a sedition, was driven from his city and emigrated to Italy, where he founded the cities of Petilia, Old Crimissa, and Chone, between Croton and Thurii.

Some sources say, that his father Giovanni Sarto ( in polish Jan Krawiec, in german Jan Krawietz ) was a Pole, who emigrated to today's Italy from Boguszyce-a village in the district of Toszek within Gliwice, Silesian Voivodeship, in southern Poland ; located exactly in Upper Silesia " for a better life ".

99 of 1939 was the first guitar concerto of the 20th century and Castelnuovo-Tedesco's last work in Italy, before he emigrated to the United States.

Locrus, a son of Phaeax who emigrated to Italy where he married Laurina, the daughter of Latinus.

In 1947 Opatija was given to Yugoslavia ; most of the Italian-speaking population, whose percentage had substantially increased in the past years, emigrated to Italy.

* Oriundo, a term used to describe a sportsman born in Latin America, whose ancestors emigrated from Italy, and who then emigrated " back " to Italy.

Giamatti's paternal grandparents were Italian immigrants Angelo Giamattei () and Maria Lavorgna (): his grandfather Angelo emigrated to the United States from Telese, near Naples, Italy, around 1900.

Hundreds of Slovenes and Croats were interned in prison camps throughout Italy, while tens of thousands emigrated abroad, mostly to Yugoslavia and South America.

He emigrated to Switzerland in ( 1933 ), then to Italy ( 1934 ) and ultimately, with his partner Margot Ruben ( 1908 – 1980 ), to New Zealand ( 1938 ).

At about the same time, a wave of immigrants from Europe ( mostly from Italy ) moved into the Canton and a larger group of Schwyzer emigrated to the United States.

With the assistance of the Jewish Agency, he emigrated to Israel, arriving in the Israeli port of Haifa in a vessel travelling from Naples, Italy.

Born in southern Italy in 1882, Torrio emigrated to the United States with his mother after his father's death, happened when he was 2.

The greater part of the family property was sold, and with the proceeds they emigrated to Italy, bought a small farm in Pescia near Lucca and Pistoia, and set to work to cultivate it themselves.

Sacco was a shoe-maker born in Torremaggiore, Foggia province, Puglia region, Italy, who emigrated to the United States at the age of seventeen.

He emigrated from Italy to Scotland at the age of four.

Large numbers of Tosks emigrated to join sizable Albanian émigré communities in Romania, Egypt, Bulgaria, Constantinople, southern Italy, and later the United States.

After the fall of Noli's regime ( December 1924 ) he emigrated to Italy, thereafter to Austria and then to the Soviet Union.

Turturro's mother was Sicilian ( from Aragona near Agrigento ) and his father emigrated from Giovinazzo, Bari, Italy at the age of six.

Viterbi was born in Bergamo, Italy to Jewish parents and emigrated with them in 1939 to the United States as a refugee.