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Long-lost Scots from Argentina return to Leith to retrace roots
They left Leith on the sailing vessel Symmetry in 1825 with the promise of a new life in South America.And 183 years after 220 excited souls set off on their mammoth journey, their descendants have finally returned.
Eleven members of the St Andrews Church, founded in Buenos Aires by the Leith settlers, are in Edinburgh to discover their roots.
Although no longer affiliated with the Church of Scotland, the Argentinean kirk still boasts of its Scottish heritage with a St Andrew's Cross in its coat of arms and thistles in the seal of its church-sponsored school.
And the church's links are even more obvious in the names of its members ...
Full story at the Edinburgh Evening News.
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