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Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691" Bowman
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 01:18:53 +0000 (UTC)
In-Reply-To: <E7B0D4E5C6AF46789BBE2FFA6129AF33@robbd47f046248>
Hi Rob, Bowmans were on vacation, apparently! None.
Linda Merle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob" <>
To: "Louise Acheson" <>,
Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 11:32:24 AM
Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691" -McCleary or McClary
Hi Linda
May I ask you to look up BOWMAN for me please
thanks again
rb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Louise Acheson" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster
1641-1691" -McCleary or McClary
> How about the names Acheson and Robinson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2011 8:25 AM
> To: ;
> Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691" -
> McCleary or McClary
>
> Hi Ellie, neither name is present in a recognizable form, findable in a
> minute's search. If they living in the Glenns, they might have been a
> little
> confused by it all -- one of the many ethnicities of 17th century Ulster
> presented with nasty choices: Door number one or door number two. Many
> were
> Catholic and threw their lot in with the Irish. When they did this, we
> don't
> know, or maybe they waffled for generations. We don't know.
>
> Linda Merle
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From:
> To:
> Sent: Sunday, November 6, 2011 1:46:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691" --
> Witherow
>
> Hi Linda,
> Would you please check on the name McCleary or McClary. I know they
> were in Ulster on a plantation, but I am just hoping to find more
> information. Thanks,
> Ellie Dowling
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 5:33 PM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691" --
> Witherow
>
> Hi Catherine,
>
> Sorry, not a one. Would a Wholmes do? Or a Wildrage?
>
> What happened to all these people one never gets asked to look up? Did
> they
> die out because their surnames were too weird? (Not Witherow)
>
> Linda Merle
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Catherine Withrow" <>
> To:
> Sent: Saturday, November 5, 2011 4:52:50 PM
> Subject: Re: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691"
>
> Hello Linda (and List members) -
>
> I've been learning so much in the last weeks from this list and have begun
> to scour the archives for my family. I can follow my family from Ireland
> to
> America fairly clearly and am working on the information to connect our
> Scots heritage to our Irish (our name changed distinctly so the connection
> isn't proven). Linda, my people came to America before the Revolutionary
> War - listed as a Protestant Householder in Co. Armagh in 1740 - could you
> check for them in your book? Thanks so much. Surname: Witherow
>
> Catherine Withrow
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of
> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 10:16 AM
> To: List
> Subject: [S-I] "Defenders of the Plantation of Ulster 1641-1691"
>
> Hi folks,
>
> I have sprung for this book, compiled by Brian Mitchell. It contains two
> lists of names (with some details) from two sources. These are the muster
> roll of Garrison in the City of Londonderry from 1642-43. This resides in
> PRONI as T808/15176, from the National Archives in London, State Papers,
> Domestic, Commonwealth Exchequer Papers, bundles 120 and 121). The second
> is
> from "The Fighters of Derry Their Deeds and Descendants..." by William
> Young, published in 1932. It covers the period 1688-1691. It also names
> those of the Enniskillen campaign as well as the harrying of Jacobite
> forces
> in Connaught and Ulster by locally raised regiments out of Enniskillen,
> Battle of the Boyne, Battle of Aughrim, and the final Irish surrender 23
> Sept. 1691. It includes the list of 921 people declared traitors by James'
> II's parliament in Dublin in 1689.
>
> I am willing to do very quick lookups over the next few weeks but only a
> few
> a day. I am also only willing to look up a name ONCE. So if your name has
> been done and I remember, you'll need to check the archives. Thus you'll
> learn how to do this and I'll feel less like I'm in some kind of endless
> lookup hell <grin>. When this happens I get grouchy and quit.
>
> Anyone else with a decent resource who feels inclined to make a look up
> offer -- we love this. The archives are full of the results. If you
> haven't
> checked the archives for lookups of your surname, wow, are you messing up
> <grin>. By 'decent' I mean please don't share your coffee table books or
> the
> stuff that sometimes get published for what reason I donno...I think to
> recruit cannon fodder for the armies (chest swelling, sources stuff about
> brave Scotch Irish soldiers, settlers, etc.). Primarily we want stuff
> that'll help us find our ancestors. Not books that are dead ends.
>
> I'll also post some info in the front of the book on the time period.
>
> Many of those mentioned left for America within a generation. You can
> generally tell if your ancestor was a defender of Derry because he was
> excluded from paying taxes for his life. You will find farms in New
> England
> that are excluded from paying taxes. I believe this ended with the
> Revolution. Anyone know?
>
> PS: if you are reading this later than December 2011, I have probably
> refiled the book on my self, where it is lost. So check the archives.
>
> Linda Merle
>
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