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Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 15:45:11 EDT


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I apologize if I offended anyone by my using the term Scotch-Irish. I
realize that
this term is used in America and not recognized world wide. I should have used
the term Ulster Scot.
Robert Whigham

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Hello Scotch Irish-County Down

I am researching the surname Whigham in County Down. I have found through
the Ulster Historical Society that there were some Whighams in Moneyslane,
Drumgooland, County Down in the middle 1700s on the Meade Estate. Is there
anyone out there that knows anything about Moneyslane, the Whigham line,
or the Meade Estate in this time period? Also the surname Bigham for the
above?
Thomas Whigham married Margaret Bigham.

I have found a townland a scant 12 miles from Moneyslane by the name of
Whigamstown. (note the spelling of my surname Whigham and Whigamstown)
This townland of Whigamstown consists of 149 acres -- quite small.
There has to be a connection, or it would seem quite possibly that the two are
connected? The townland of Whigamstown is in the civil parish of Bright,
County
Down. The Whighams and Bighams were Presbyterian. Does anyone know
anything about how Whigamstown got its name or what estate owned it in the
middle 1700s?

Any help out there?

Thanks,
Robert Whigham
Mobile, Alabama USA





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