I need to think out loud (well, okay, via my fingers on the keyboard). My ancestor, John Scoles, was born in Scoles Corner, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh in 1732. He was sentenced by the British court at Lincolnshire to transportation to the American colonies in 1752. What is a young Irish man doing in Lincolnshire in 1752? - visiting relatives? - and he gets in trouble and gets sent to America? I know the Scoleses were not landed gentry. My hunch is that they were English tenant farmers for a plantation owner, but I know John's father was also born in Enniskillen. Do any of you know about this period of time and about the habits of the British tenants in Ireland? thank you so much. Jaira Hill Silverton, OR, USA