Wayne What township in Lancaster County, PA did your family settle in? This may give a migration "Path" for other families from Ballnahinch in this early 1700's period. Lancaster County was formed in 1729 from Chester County. So have you looked at both Counties History Books? In 1718 the Rev James Macgregor, the Presbyterian Minister from Aghadowey, near Coleraine - with other Presbyterian Ministers, led some 300 families from North Antrim and eastern Derry to Boston and most of these settled in Londonderry, NH. In 2007, I saw a reference in Londonderry City that during the 1700's some one million Irish migrated to America (Most of these would be after 1718). So the Question is did Presbyterians from County Down also feel the same need to migrate due to actions of Queen Ann? Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Shannon" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:31 AM Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Boyd family of Ireland Dia Dhaoibh go leor, Hello all Wayne Shannon here. As long as we are on the subject of Ballynahinch, I would like to jump in with my problem. I believe that my Shannon's came from Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church, however, my time frame is before most of your's. They probably left for the colonies in the area of 1714-1720. How far back do the records at the Presbyterian church go? I have been to PRONI twice with no success. We were also closely related to the Reid's and lived and died along side them in Lancaster County Pa. It seems the only records available are post 1820 with just a handfull of general census' that don't include "regular" folks. An féidir libh cabhrú liom? (Can you help me?) Wayne Shannon here in the heartland of US (Iowa)
Mike My branch of Shannons (Thomas/Agnes) were in Sadsbury twp, along Octorara creek. One brother was also of Lancaster county, Sadsbury twp, another landed in Norriton twp, Montgomery county, and yet a third ended up in Strahan twp, York county. Thomas first appears in Chester Co. tax records in 1725 in "Sadberry" as did our purported relative Thomas Reid. Mise le meas Wayne Ó Senan rua Tír Gan Teanga Tír Gan Anam http://sites.google.com/site/gaeltachtiowa/ > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:15:47 +1000 > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Boyd family of Ireland > > Wayne > What township in Lancaster County, PA did your family settle in? This may > give a migration "Path" for other families from Ballnahinch in this early > 1700's period. > > Lancaster County was formed in 1729 from Chester County. So have you looked > at both Counties History Books? > > In 1718 the Rev James Macgregor, the Presbyterian Minister from Aghadowey, > near Coleraine - with other Presbyterian Ministers, led some 300 families > from North Antrim and eastern Derry to Boston and most of these settled in > Londonderry, NH. > > In 2007, I saw a reference in Londonderry City that during the 1700's some > one million Irish migrated to America (Most of these would be after 1718). > > So the Question is did Presbyterians from County Down also feel the same > need to migrate due to actions of Queen Ann? > > Mike Boyd > Brisbane > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Wayne Shannon" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2009 1:31 AM > Subject: Re: [NIR-DOWN] FW: Boyd family of Ireland > > > > Dia Dhaoibh go leor, Hello all > > > > Wayne Shannon here. As long as we are on the subject of Ballynahinch, I > would like to jump in with my problem. I believe that my Shannon's came > from Ballynahinch Presbyterian Church, however, my time frame is before most > of your's. They probably left for the colonies in the area of 1714-1720. > How far back do the records at the Presbyterian church go? I have been to > PRONI twice with no success. We were also closely related to the Reid's and > lived and died along side them in Lancaster County Pa. It seems the only > records available are post 1820 with just a handfull of general census' that > don't include "regular" folks. An féidir libh cabhrú liom? (Can you help > me?) > > > > Wayne Shannon here in the heartland of US (Iowa) > > > --------------------------------- > 476 list members as of 1 Feb 2009 - how many are related to you? > --------------------------------- > Searchable list archive at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/NIR-DOWN > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ It’s the same Hotmail®. If by “same” you mean up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_AE_Same_022009