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    1. [NIR-DERRY] First Presbyterian to Ulster
    2. Mike Boyd
    3. >From the book - As the Crow Flies over Rough Terrain, by James G. Kenny, 1988, page 216, it says:- "James Boyd (1683-1759) who married Mary Henry (Broughshane district Henrys were kin of those in the Route). James Boyd's father was John Boyd who lived in Ballygarvey with his wife Jane Forsythe. (on a map of the Adair Estate, dated 1747, we see John Boyd as a tenant of over 50 acres in Ballygarvey). John Boyd was son of John Boyd who came from Glasgow with the FIRST PRESBYTERIAN TO ULSTER AND ALSO LIVED IN BALLYGARVEY, his wife was Janet Logan, a worth name around her yet, over three and a half centuries on." The phrase "First Presbyterian to Ulster" caught my eye and as I do not know in detail the History of the migration to Ulster, I thoughit may be best to ask these lists. Mr Kenny suggest that this was about 1630's. So what happened in Scotland in that period to cause this migration given that you would have expected some of the Plantation families of 1609 period to have been Presbyterian. As I live in Brisbane, Australia I will not have access to many book on this topic. Thank you. Mike Boyd

    04/21/2007 03:48:54