Note:
(a) From Dictionary of American Family Names, by Oxford University Press
(i) The Scottish and Northern Irish surname Lennox (Lenox is a variant spelling), the name of a "district near Dumbarton * * * Apparently it is named from Gaelic leamhan elm + the locative suffix -ach + English -s."
(ii)
(A) The Scottish surname Morrison means child of Morris.
(B) The English and Scottish surname Morris is "from Maurice, an Old French personal [given] name introduced to Britain by the Normans, Latin Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus [Latin for 'in native of Northwestern Africa' which became 'Moor' in English] (see Moore)."
(iii) The Scottish surname Campbell: "from Gaelic cam crooked, bent + beul mouth"
(iv) The Scottish name Ferguson means child of a person whose personal or given name is Fergus.
(b) A resident of Charleston, South Carolina, "Lebby Campbell's heart swelled as she strolled through Inveraray Castle on the mountain-fringed shores of Loch Fyne. * * * [She] felt a sense of belonging. * * * 'you're on Campbell lands * * * Everything hit home. I felt a sense of pride and awe and a real connection with my ancestors.' "
(i) The female given name Lebby is a pet form of Isabel, which in turn is a variant of Elizabeth. (Another pet form of Elizabeth is Libby.)
(ii) Inveraray Castle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inveraray_Castle
("near Inveraray [county town of Argyll] in the county of Argyll")
(iii)
(A) hit/strike home: "to become very clear and obvious in usually a forceful or unpleasant way The truth about their marriage finally hit home>" https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hit%20home
(B) hit home: "(idiomatic) To be especially memorable, meaningful, or significant; to be fully understood, believed or appreciated; synonym: strike a chord" https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_home 作者: choi 时间: 6-28-2017 16:26
(c) in the Inveraray Castle: "The axes and broadswords displayed beneath a ceiling studded with the family crest made her think of blood spilt in bygone battles, Campbell says."
(i) basket-hilted sword https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basket-hilted_sword
(is also sometimes referred to as the broadsword)
(ii) crest (heraldry) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crest_(heraldry)
(section 1 Origin)
View the sketch only. 作者: choi 时间: 6-28-2017 16:28
(d) " 'ancestral tourism' – and in a small country such as Scotland, it's a valued source of income. Scotland has a population of 5.4 million [England's in 2011 census: 53 million]. But more than 50 million people worldwide have a family link to the country * * * The trend was in part boosted by the popular television drama Outlander, much of which is set centuries ago in war-torn Scotland. * * * Drawn mainly from the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand – historical destinations for Scottish emigrants – ancestral tourists are an economic boon for the nation. In the first nine months of 2016, visitors from these nations generated a total of £524m ($678m [accounting for ~3% of Scotland's GDP]) for the Scottish economy – and for almost 50% of them, an ancestral connection was one of the reasons for making the trip"
(e) "my father, a Church of Scotland minister"
(i) Church of Scotland ("is the national church of Scotland. Protestant and Presbyterian"/ John Knox 1560) en.wikipedia.org
(ii) "Presbyterian churches derive their name from the presbyterian form of church government, which is governed by representative assemblies of elders. * * * Presbyterians in the United States came largely from Scotch-Irish immigrants communities" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism
(f) "One of the biggest waves of mass emigration came during the Highland Clearances of the 18th and 19th Centuries, when tenant farmers were forcibly evicted by landlords looking for bigger income."
(g) "For many centuries, up to the 1746 Battle of Culloden, Scotland was run by the clan system – clan meaning 'family' or 'children' in Gaelic"
(i) Battle of Culloden https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Culloden
(George I of the House of Hanover prevailed over Charles Edward Stuart)
(ii) clan http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=clan
(from Latin [noun feminine] planta offshoot)
(h) "Not every Wallace was a William"
Despite quotation marks, Google shows that in the entire universe only this BBC report says it. The sentence alludes to William Wallace. William Wallace (died 1305) was depicted in the 1995 film Braveheart (Braveheart was not his epithet -- just a film's title).