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From: Edward Andrews <>
Subject: Re: Plantations period..then gone?
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 22:10:22 +0000


BoatKitten wrote:
>
> Hello Edward..
> Sorry.. I should have been more clear on this.
Sorry, I misread your post.

> I don't know when my ancestors (Longwell/Langwell/Longueville) came to the
> Ulster area..... but the rumour is that he came during "the
> Plantation'...these people were called Orangemen? Ulstermen? am I correct?

They were called Ulstermen. Orangemen were the name for a certain
section who began a century later.
this was a group of originally Anglicans who wanted to suppress
dissent, both Presbyterian and Roman Catholic.

> Please pardon me if I've got this all messed up..... our name is supposedly
> from the Norman de Longueville. There is actually a Knight de Longueville at
> Westminster Abbey.

The Normans in effect took over the whole (or a great deal) of the
British Isles.
The involvement of the King of England in Ireland happened because of
an ambitious subject tried to move over into dealing with Ireland.

> Anyway... for some reason...they took off for Cornwall, and were there in
> 1716, baptising their children (probably Methodist or Baptist?). Shortly
> after this, by 1735, at least one of them emmigrated to America, was involved
> in the Baptist churches there in Connecticut. He secured a living by being a
> cord winder (rope maker) at Mystic Seaport, CT.

1716 seems a mite early for the Methodists - Wesley didn't start his
preaching ministry until 1742.
As Baptists do not, by definition, baptize children I would be
surprised if they had a baptism record there.
They were most likely Established Church. If you could identify a
Presbyterian line that might well be because of an S-I connection.

> I have found no source of his being Cornish, the only records showing
> Cornwall are the baptisms in the St Catherines Index. Our handed down
> history says he was Scot-Irish.
>
> I was just trying to find a reason why he left N Ireland?

Most of the traffic at this time out of N. Ireland was to America. I
would have no idea why anyone would want to go to Cornwall from Ulster
at that time.
I could speculate, but there would be absolutely nothing to back it
up
Edward Andrews
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