Re: Bogue...Scottish?
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Bogue...Scottish?
Jessica Tull 7/01/09
We are not sure when we came from Scotland. It could have been when Jamaica was conquered for England by William Penn and Venables in 1650, or during the Jacobite Rebellions about the 1750's.I see the Scot immigrant William Bogue III in the 1650's went to North Carolina, so we might have come over then.
My 3rd Great Grandfather, MacDuff Hart Bogue, was born here in Jamaica about 1832. It is more than likely his father MacDuff Hart Bogue was born here also. My 2nd Great Grandfather was William Benjamin Bogue and he had (2) sisters, Elizabeth and Margaret.
Family oral tradition says they were French Huguenots in Scotland who fought to protect Queen Mary. They later married into the MacDuff family who were of Scottish royalty.
We were also told that (3) brothers came from Scotland. (2) remained in Jamaica and (1) went to the U.S.A. (Probably English or British colonies at the time.) One brother who settled at the East end of the island, where there is still today a great region called Bogue, St. James. One brother, whom I'm a descendant of, settled in the centre of the island where we mined gold in the middle of the 19th century on land which was said to have been granted by the Queen. The land is still in the family after several hundreds of years.
http://www.geni.com/people/Arthur-W-Bogues-Esq/6000000009286508142http://www.geni.com/people/Arthur-W-Bogues-Esq/6000000009286508142