Well Guinness brewery started in 1759....so maybe they preferred it to Whisky?? ;-) John Hogg wrote: > I had a family of Kirkpatrick who came from Scotland say 1800 or so and > eventually settled in Fermanagh. Maguiresbridge area. Not a clue as to why > though. > > Other lines in this area - McCoy in Tyrone and Jackson in Fermanagh. > > My Hogg line stayed in Scotland - Hawick where my GF was born 1876. > > -----Original Message----- > From: cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:cotyroneireland-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of amroche1@aol.com > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 8:14 AM > To: joyhogghwh@yahoo.com; cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [CoTyIre] BMD - Bayne, Hogg, Farrell > > > Hello all! I am also interested in why Scots would leave Scotland for > Ireland in the mid to late 1700s. My McClellands (2 brothers) left Scotland > for Co Tyrone about 1760. When replying to Joy, please "reply to all." > Thanks! > Alice > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joy Hogg <joyhogghwh@yahoo.com> > To: cotyroneireland@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 5:32 am > Subject: [CoTyIre] BMD - Bayne, Hogg, Farrell > > > > > > > > > > > Dear folks, I'd like to thank the volunteers who have been transcribing and > entering thousands of names and dates for historical purposes. What a > wonderful > generous way to spend time. > Also, I am catching bits of great advice, especially about ages. Do you > think a > disregard to exact age was common all over the place? I have a British > person in > Canada whose age seemed to have declined about 12 years upon remarriage > after?losing the first wife. > ?Could you walk me through the instructions for accessing the new > information? > Is this at the LDS site or somewhere else? > Also, I continue to need any assistance for Bayne, Hogg and Farrell.I can > picture a young James Hogg walking to Tyrone County from Scotland, and > eventually marrying a Sarah McKee in the late 1700's. From historical > conjecture, put your thinking caps on for me. Why would Scots leave Scotland > at > that time? How would he have been received by the people in the area? Would > a > single man have traveled alone or always with a group of relatives? Did the > Scots retain their "Scots" demeanor and speech, or assimilate? > As a Canadian in the US, I will help re: history on this side of the pond... > Joy Hogg > > ------------- > 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 > > > > > > > ------------- > 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 > > > ------------- > 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 14:33:55 > avast! - copyright (c) 1988-2009 ALWIL Software. > http://www.avast.com > > > > >