Hi Bev, I know little of recent Irish political history, but the Grand Orange Order was founded almost immediately after the (Civil) Battle of the Diamond, 1795, where the Catholics were defeated at Cranagill Hill (the military keeping a low profile). Their first headquarters were at Sloan's Inn, Loughgall (in Armagh) and early membership was mainly labouring or artisan class, though some 'nobs' did join. Parliament in London was equivocal, on the one hand they needed loyal Irish support, on the other they thought Orange Order demonstrations would further exacerbate the tensions. Your date of 1843 was during the period when public demonstrations (either Catholic or Orange) were banned. Obviously today their activities are limited to Northern Ireland (and Donegal, home of the MaGinleys, is just outside) but until Partition they were widespread. You really need to know (perhaps from church records) if your MaGinley was a Protestant. The Orange Order does not hold central records, and many of their local records have been destroyed by the Catholics. None-the-less, if you contact them on www.grandorange.org.uk they will do their best to answer genealogical questions. So, yes, the MaGinleys were centred on a county in the north of Ireland, but politically today that county is outside Northern Ireland which makes me think it was too strongly Catholic to be included in loyalist Protestant Ireland. Regards, David