Then there were the landlords in Scottish highlands that cleared their tenants too....these people only knew farming so where were the opportunities for them then? Ireland was one! Loretta wrote: > Presuming to fill in David's picture just a bit, there is one slightly > different but related reason some Scots went to Ulster. In Scotland, the > law of primogeniture dictated that the eldest son inherit the father's land. > So, younger sons of landed families (called cadets) gladly went to Ireland > as part of the Ulster plantation to make their own fortune. They did not > necessarily go for hire but to own a bit of land of their own. > > For example, Scots David Lynn and John Lynn, who appear to be cadets of the > Lynns of that Ilk in Dalry, Ayrshire, went to Ulster in 1616 or earlier and > settled on the estate of Dunnalong in County Tyrone, which had been granted > to the Earl of Abercorn. In 1622, John Lynn was listed as a "freeholder" on > the Dunnalong estate. Now, the Earl's brother-in-law, Sir Thomas Boyd, was > a fifth son of the then Lord Boyd of Kilmarnock (Ayrshire), and he had been > granted the property adjacent to Abercorn's. Notably, the Lynns and the > Boyds were associated in Ayrshire through various land transactions, both > before and after 1616, and I believe it was that association which enabled > the younger Lynns to "make their fortune." in Ulster. > > Loretta > > -----Original Message----- > From: cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joy Hogg > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 10:16 AM > To: cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com > Subject: [CoTyIre] History behind our history > > > I am getting GREAT reflections regarding my question about why a Scots > would leave Scotland in the late 1700s and migrate to Tyrone. What was the > economy like and what sort of work would a young man get upon arriving? Ag > lab? ... > > > > ------------- > Our community web-site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cotyroneireland > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTYRONEIRELAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > --- > avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. > Virus Database (VPS): 090128-0, 28/01/2009 > Tested on: 29/01/2009 20:29:23 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > >