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Poverty was a common cause of people leaving Scotland in the 19thC.

Some people were forced away from their land and families by landlords, often absentee landlords who owned large areas of land in the Highlands, because their rents did not give the landlords the money they wanted.

People left to find work abroad as skilled craftsmen and as farmers and stone masons.

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