FYI... ----Original Message Follows---- From: Jane Digerness <[email protected]> To: Charlotte Coats <[email protected]> Subject: RE: Coats genealogy in N.Ireland Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 13:25:05 -0700 (PDT) Hi, Charlotte... THANK YOU for your quick response...and I have to apologize for my slow reply. Wednesday I was swamped with one thing after another. Yesterday was "doctor" day 35 mi from home, plus some shopping up there, and today is wash day...but I'm not letting THIS day pass without responding to some e-mails. Like you, I'm fearful of changing e-mail addresses for fear of losing family history contacts!! My CRAIG branch--from Straid (near Gracehill, which is near Ballymena), County Antrim, N.Ireland--first arrived in America in 1864--just two weeks or 2 mos--depending on who is telling the story, and we can't find the ship they came on) before my grandfather was born in Brooklyn. Then in 1865/66, they migrated on to southern Illinois, and I have a "gut" feeling they went to relatives there...but whether it was of the CRAIG family or the associated McCLURKIN family, I don't know...maybe both. The McClurkins landed in SC in the 1700's, and may have come with your Craigs. I just can't help feeling there are connections we are not seeing among some of these different groups!!! RIGHT!! The paper trail is pretty iffy...especially when you get into Ireland!! We have my CRAIG line back to John, b 1717, probably in Larne, Co. Antrim, and his brother Adam, b 1718. But we have no parents for them, nor a clue when they arrived from Scotland, except Grandpa said his ancestors only left Scotland because they were directed to go to N.Ireland and put down the Irish who were giving the English king all kinds of fits. Somehow I got clear out of high school with never having had a history course! I didn't dodge it--have always loved anything associated with history! But I don't have dates and places in my head! I'd guess it was in the latter 1600's, early 1700's that the Irish found Scots taking over N.Ireland, but I don't know that! IF there is a connection from a COATS family to my great-grandmother Jane DUNBAR CRAIG, it would be in N.Ireland, as she was born in (or about) 1823, and she and her husband James didn't bring their family to America until 41 yrs after that. Getting "across the pond" with this ancestry was something else!!! THANKFULLY I had a cousin, though he was not a genealogist, he was interested in the CRAIG origins; he was in England and decided to go to Ireland before coming back to the USA and search out the Craigs. I gave him what clues I had, and he and his wife spent the better part of two weeks searching, until he FOUND them in a little Moravian church in Gracehill! What info we have on them comes from the parish registers of that church. I also have a smidgeon of info from Griffith's Evaluation of 1862. What are some of your Craig names who came to America in the mid-1700's?? I have just a little on a couple of Craig families who came in that time period. Please do keep in touch. I keep hoping all of these things will Click and come together sometime!!! THANKS again... Jane :) --- Charlotte Coats <[email protected]> wrote: > Yep, I'm still here...afraid to change emails > because of the family > history....:) > > Well, my Craigs are from Ireland/Scotland, > Scotch/Irish, but they came here > mid 1700s...my Coats are out of SC....... > > NY is one of those areas where we don't have any > info on the Coats...but my > Craig line is out of PA and SC...these are very > large famlilies out of York > and Westmoreland Counties in PA...so whether any of > them went into NY I > don't know...I can usually get my lines back to the > American Revolutionary > Period but beyound that it gets real murky...not to > mention in MD the names > is spelled Courts and Coarts....the Courts has been > transcribed as Coates > .... > > > Coate, Coates, Coats Digital Archive > http://www.coatsarchive.us > > The above link will take you to the info that I do > have on Coats... > > Char > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: Jane Digerness <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Subject: Coats genealogy in N.Ireland > Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2005 09:36:58 -0700 (PDT) > > Hi, Charlotte... > I hope you are still at this "address!" > This morning my cousin Barbara sent me an e-mail > she > had gotten from you sometime back relative to the > possibility that our DUNBAR great-grandmother was > the > daughter of a COATS/COATES woman who married into a > Dunbar family in the early 1800's in Belfast, or > surrounding area, and had a daughter, Jane Dunbar, > born 1823. Jane (for whom I am named) married James > "Red" CRAIG in the 1840's and had a large family in > Straid (near Gracehill and Ballymena, County > Antrim), > North Ireland. We have Craig genealogy for a couple > more generations before that, but Jane has been a > mystery for all 53 years I've been searching for > her. > There seems to be just NOTHING! > James had been raised a Moravian, and when he > married "outside the faith," he was ousted, but > James > was received back in and they took in Jane, too--and > they were Moravians in Brooklyn, NY...then became > staunch Presbyterians in Illinois and Kansas. > The theory keeps popping up--TRADITION, you > know--that Jane's mother was a COATS, and we seem to > be unable to either prove or disprove that idea! > Can you shed any light on it?? > THANK YOU very much for your time and interest!! > Jane D.D. > [email protected] > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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