My name has nothing to do with currency. My distant relatives would likely have migrated to the New World from the vacinity of the town of Dollar in Scotland near Castle Gloom (Later changed to Campbell Castle) in Dollar Glen. So I would have been, Jim of Dollar then, shortened to Jim Dollar now.

I expect that my relatives would have worked as serfs and servants for the Castle in the Glen, who would have been eager to take their chances in the New World with hope for their future and gloomy memories of their impoverished past. I hope they had a smooth and easy time of it and were happy they took the trouble to make the trip.