And then the later penal laws dictated that one could not inherit the land or do alot of other nice things unless one converted to the Church of Ireland. There are lists of dissenters and non conformists as well as lists of converts. Intended to address primarily Catholics, I think the laws also applied to any protestant that was not Anglican. Does anyone know? On Thursday, January 29, 2009, at 03:42PM, "David Hall" <hallmark1@utvinternet.com> wrote: >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 >> >> >> >> >> > >------------- >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 > >