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From: "Lib McPherson" <>
Subject: RAY/BLACK & other FAMILIES --SCOTLAND >>>NC & Nova Scotia , PART 1
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 16:05:04 -0500


-Subject: RAY/BLACK & other FAMILIES --SCOTLAND >>>NC, and Nova Scotia PART
I

>>
>> RAY FAMILY
>> In my grandfather's papers along with drafts of genealogy information
>> (1943-1944 vintage) and notes suggesting plans for a book by Louis
>> Duncan Ray are a number of letters with the following letterhead which
>> contain information about Mr. Ray's genealogy research in the Cape
>> Fear River area of NC on the descendants of the brothers referred to
>> in the letterhead. Does anyone know about a book on this family? OR
>> does anyone have other information related to this correspondence?
>>
>> LETTERHEAD FOR LOUIS DUNCAN RAY STATIONERY
>>
>>
>> "DILEAS GU BRATH" "FAITHFUL FOREVER"
>>
>> HOUSE OF RAY - 1745-1945
>> Ancestral Origin: Islay and the Western Isles
>> CLAN: MacDonald of Clanranald GENERAL PATRONYMIC: MacDonald
>> SPECIFIC NAMES: "GILLIEREAGH," (Striped, Streaked, Rayed, or
>> Brindled), or "DARRACH," (Oak Tree) ANGLICIZED NAMES: "RAY" (a
>> translation), and "DARRACH," (Kept by House members in Nova Scotia
>> Colony, etc.)
>>
>> The Flora MacDonald Colony The Islay Colony of Upper Canada
>> Cumberland County, NC Victoria County Ontario
>> {#1 note is centered under Flora MacDonald while #2 note is centered
>> under Islay Colony}
>> #1: Influx: Post-Culloden; Exiled Highland-Scottish Jacobites,
>> Pre-Revolutionary, Revolutionary, Post-Revolutionary, Napoleonic;
>> Frequent or sporadic arrivals here of Highlander relatives of
>> predecessors. Post-Napoleonic; Forced migration, due to Islay
>> depression, Land-saturation; re-migration, 1790 onwards, to West, etc.
>>
>> #2: Influx: Post-Napoleonic; Direct emigration by arrangement and
>> invitation of fifty to seventy-five Islay families, and three via
>> North Carolina. Land-saturation: Remigration in 50's to New Zealand,
>> and afterwards to United States West, followed in 1885 by Canada
>> Northwest homesteading.
>>
>> PLEASE REPLY TO THIS LETTER TO THE HOUSE MEMBER BELOW, WHO INQUIRES
>> LOUIS DUNCAN RAY, 545 E. CONGRESS ST. DETROIT, MICH
>> Jacobite Exiles: ARCHIBALD, ca.1700-177O; DUNCAN, ca. 1704-1774;
>> DONALD, ca.1705-1776; GILBERT,ca. 1706-1778; JOHN, ca. 1708-1780;
>> Sons, etc. (ca. 1725-1780); John (Averasboro:; Neil (Black River);
>> Donald (Black River); Hugh (Harnett); John (Richmond); Duncan (Yadkin
>> r'd); Angus (Wolf Pit b'ch); John (Cumberland); Daniel (Cross Creek;
>> John (Sheep Pen b'ch); Duncan, Archibald (Thagard's pond); Archibald
>> (Jackson Springs); James, Daniel (Ray's Mill c'k); Duncan (Harnett);
>> Hugh Malcolm (Rockfish c'k); Archibald, John, Malcolm, Donald (Little
>> Rockfish c'k); Angus, Archibald (Nicholson's c'k); (Isle of Skye
>> cousins to Robeson) Lauchlin, Angus, Angus
>>
>> END OF LETTERHEAD
>>
>> LIB'S COMMENTS: The drafts of genealogy records with these letters
>> begin with the Jacobite Exiles or a son or daughter at the time of
>> their arrival in Wilmington, NC and follow their lineage to my
>> generation for many families. I will post some of this later.

Catherine RAY arr. 1754 in Wilmington, NC with 2 Hugh RAY and William BLACK
on same voyage of Baliol of Jura's brig on Campbellton (Kintyre)- Wilmington
run. Married William Black in NC and settled on Upper Little River near
Clark's Bridge in Cumberland County ( now Harnett County) NC
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