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  Posted by: Leonard Higdon Date: July 15, 2000 at 19:20:38
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  Hi Guys:Most of the Lusks in america came From Scotland,around and close to Glasgow.They were Sea Captains and Merchants and Men of Position.Many are buried in greyfriars cem.in Scotland.They came to New Jersey and spread out to Long island,New York and chester Co. Pa,then again moved into Va,then to NC..The LOOsks in SC were James,son of Nathan Lusk of Va.Some of them moved to ireland and changed their names spelling to hide out from The law hunting them as participating in the relgious wars in Scotland abt 1680..(what did they call themselves?)..There's a good account of how Capt. James Lusk met his end pulled overboard by a great fish in the VA.Newspapers,plus many more artcles on ship movements
  
  Posted by: Larry Lincoln Date: July 15, 2000 at 19:46:38
  In Reply to: Lusks in America and their source by Leonard Higdon  of 974 
  
  
  In 1949, I met a Presbyterian minister (turned Episcopalian) by the name of Lusk in Ridgefield, CT, who was born in Northern Ireland. He claimed that the Lusks in Ireland were descended from a Viking pirate shipwrecked off the coast of Ireland. There may be some basis for his claim, as I later visited the tiny farming village of Lusk, just outside of Dublin, in 1985. A plaque on the side of a Norman tower there said it was used by the villagers as a refuge from Viking raiders centuries earlier.

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