Doreen Guerriero wrote: > > I am searching for my NESBITT ancestors reportedly from Co. Down. William > NESBITT m. Mary HENDERSON sometime before 1795 when their daughter Elizabeth > was born in Ireland. Other children were John b. 1798, George B.1799, > Margaret b. 1804, James, William, amd Mary. > William Sr. emigrated to Canada along with four of his children about > 1822-23, after his wife Mary died. > William's parents were from Scotland, came to NI as "agriculturalists". > Was this just a term for people brought to NI to strenghthen the English hedge? > I would greatly appreciate hearing from anyone with knowledge of the > Nesbitts in Co, Down. > Doreen Guerriero Sault Ste Marie, Ont. > [email protected] There's been quite a lot about Nesbitt (and various similar spellings) on the Scotch-Irish list - you might like to check the archives. I've got several pages on the family of Nesbitt from a 1930 book "Three Hundred Years in Inishowen", by Amy Young, which has Nesbitts all over the place, without mentioning Co Down. "Of the Irish Nesbitts there are three main lines, subdivided again into various branches, each one now extinct in the male lie. The three main lines are as follows:- 1. Nesbitt or Nisbet of Tullydonnell, from which come Nesbitt of Derricairne, Co Leitrim, and Nisbet of Greenhills,Co Donegal 2. Nesbitt of Brenter, from which come Nesbitt of Kilmacreddon, and Nisbett of Lismore, co Cavan 3. Nesbitt of Woodhill, from which come Nesbitt of Tubberdaly, King's co., and Nesbitt of Drumalee. The famiy of Young of Culdaff is connected with Nesbitt of Woodhill and Nisbet of Greenhills. Do you connect with any of this? More details, perhaps? The Nisbet family came originally, as I understand it, from Nesbyt (now spelt Nisbet) near Dunse, in Berwickshire, Scotland. Charlie