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TABLE OF C0KTE:N'TS.
PEEFATORY. (Pages I—XYI.)
Title-page—Dedication, iii— List of Illustrations, v—Table of Contents,
vii— Heraldry : The Allison Arms, Crests, and Mottoes, x—The Elli-
son Arms, Crests, and Mottoes, xi— Inti'oduction, xiii.
CHAPTER I. (Pages 1-9.)
Origin of the Scotch Name of Allisox.
Various theories as to the origin of the name of Allison, 1-4—The
meaning and origin of the name of the Scotch Alisons, or Allisons,
4, 5— Orthography of the name, 5— Early prominent Allisons, 5—The
Arms, 5—Most frequent Scottish names, 6—Old divisions of Scotland
and England, G, 7—The true Scotland, 7—Thomas Carlyle's
statement, 8.
CHAPTER II. (Pages 9-17.)
The Scotch-Irish—Who Were They ?
They were not Celts, they were people of Scottish lineage who dwelt on
Irish soil, 9-10— Localities whei'e dwelt the Scotch-Irish, 10— Statements
of Macaulay, 10-11—The transplanting of the Scotch-Irish to
American shores, and the survival of the Lowland Scotch dialect,
11, 12—rBooks relating to this race, 12— Quotations from the eloquent
addresses of Rev. John S. Macintosh, D. D., at the Scotch-Irish Con-
gress, 12-15—The Scotch-Irish of New Hampshire, 11, 12, 15.
CHAPTER III. (Pages 17-39.)
The Allisoxs of Scotland and Australia.
Antiquity of the family in Avondale, Scotland—Descent from the Mac-
Alisters of Loupe, 17— John MacAlister and followers located at
Cairnduff, 18—The parish of Avondale, the home of the family
in 1310—The Alisons in Newton of Ayr, 19, 20— Descent of the
Alisons, 20—Their dispersion, 21-24— Great similarity of names in
Cairnduff, Scotland, with those in Aghadowey, Ireland, and in the
Scotch-Irish settlements in New Hampshire and other parts of the
United States, 24— Persecution of Claverhouse, 25—The Alisons of
Avondale, 27-39.