After much searching, I have found Linda Merle's previous post about the surnames listed in Ms. Agnew's book "Belfast Merchants in the Seventeenth Century". (Feb 2000) Diane Klopp Linda Merle wrote: Hi, I was for the names of these Belfast Merchant families that are studied in "Belfast Merchant Families in the Seventeenth Century" by Jean Agnew, Four Courts Press 1996 (new book -- in print -- try www.bookshop.co.uk not Ulster Books -- books out of print or second hand). The names of the Belfast freemen's roll -- they are 20% -- is printed in R M Young "The town book of the corporation of Belfast (Belfast, 1982) and also is in LDS, I believe (not the book). Ethnic breakdown: 22 Scottish, 4 English, one Old English (Dobbin), one from Low Countries -- Thompson. Ten came before 1641, 8 between 1641 and 1660, 14 after the Restoration. Profiles of senior members are from Belfast burgesses and sovereigns (in Young, above), Belfast freemen (ibid), Gravestone inscriptions, ed R S J Clarke, 13 Vols, Dublin, 1892-1934; Hearth money rolls, High sheriffs of Co Antrim, High sheriffs of Co Down -- Montgomery MS's by George Hill (extracted in Hanna "The Scotch Irish"), Members of Parliament (Journals of the house of commons of the kingdom of Ireland, Dublin, 1763), various bonds, marriage licenses in PRONI, Fasti of the Irish Presbyterian church, Alumni Dublinenses 1593- 1860, Betham's will pedigress (in PRONI and LDS), Tenison Groves (PRONI and LDS). ANDERSON, WIlliam, Presbyterian, from Stobcross, Glasgow. Associated names: MARTIN, McCARTNEY, LOCKHART, THETFORD, CRAFORD, KNOX, CHALMERS. BIGGAR - probably Irvine, Aryrshire. Associated with NEVIN, STEWART, LENNOX, LOCKHART, McCARTNEY, GALT BLACK, associated with POTTINGER, ECCLES,BYRES, BANKS, ARBUCKLE, LUTWIDGE, COATES, JONES, BOYD BRICE: ANDERSON, CADELL,BERESFORD, MAXWELL, KENNEDY, DAWSON, CONYNGHAM, SHAW, ROWLEY, LENNOX, LANGFORD, DOBBS, STEWART, RYVES, KNOX, BROWN, INNIS, ROBINSON, BUTLE/BUTTLE -- in Antrim since 1615. CONINGHAM, PEACOCK, UPTON, KENNEDY, CLEMENTS, BUTHILL, UPTON, STAPLES, STEWART, CAMPBELL, ORR (of Clough) CHADS -- RINGLAND, JOY, THETFORDS, GARNETT, RICHARDSON, KNOX, CHRISTIAN CHALMERS/CHAMBERS probably from Ayrshire -- KENNEDY, SHAW, CRAFORD, ANDERSON, MACARTNEY, HAMILTON, McQUILLY, HENDERSON, ORR, INGLES, HAMILTON, LOCKHART, ECCLES, SMITH RAINEY <from here on just noting new names -- as you can see, these guys intermarried a lot> CLOGSTON -- probably from Wigtown, Scotland. AITKINS, MILLIKINE, CRAFORD - NEILL, BLOW, McNEILL, DIXON, CRYMBLE, HADDOCK, McGOWN, McCULOUGH, WHYTE MILLS, NEILSON DOAKE -- same names DOBBIN -- from old English family of Carrickfergus -- armigerous (they had arms, they got written up in visitations, etc). WARING, JONES, BUNBURY, FRANCIS, RIGBY, O'CAHAN (O'KANE), MORRIS, GRINDELL, McMANUS, SAVAGE, SHARMAN, WELBY, GIBBONS, SOUTH, EDGAR, MONTGOMERY, FAITH, REYNELLS. ECCLES from Kildonan, Arye. MOORE, LEATHES, ADAMS, YARNER, STONE, BRYAN, WOOLLEY, HALL (of Dublin), DISNEY of Stabonon, Co Louth, WISEMAN, KER, BEST, LANE, STOKER, KIRKPATRICK, LEESON, WESTGARTH, PARSONS, CHRISTIAN, BARR, SHAEN, NILLSON, NORRIS (dau of Tobias in Co Down -- in IGI ) LETTICE, McDOUGHAL, ORMSBY KNOX from Glasgow. ECHLIN, SPANG, BUCHANAN, KEITH, HAY, MORRISON,HODGKINSON, DONALDSON, McMINN LEATHES -- from Cumberland -- GRAY, BYRTT, CARPENTER< HEWETSON, ROBERTSON, McFERRAN, JOHNSTON, MUSSENDEN, MATTHEWS, WHITE CLOSE, WARING, OLPHERT, RAWDON, TANDY, ROMA or ROMANO. LENNOX from Londonderry -- armigerous Scottish family. Conyngham, POPE, HILLHOUSE, BROOKE, CADELL, BELL, McCARTNEY from Auchinleck, Kirkcudbright, Scotland. CALDERWOOD, IREBY, CUFFE, AUNGIER, HENRY, PORTER, SOUTH, DEVENISH, CALWELL, FERGUSON, DAVIES, VESEY, DOUGLAS, HALTRIDGE, READ, COLLYER, SLOANE, BLACKWOOD, MILLBURN, HORNBY, HILL, MORTON, CROMIE, STEVENSON, JERVIS WALSH MARTIN - 8 sons! TOMB, SHANNON (wife's sister married James, parents of Samuel Shannon, presbyterian minister at Portaferry), MERVYN, CARNEY (Ulster King of Arms), WALLIS (ditto), HARDIE MOORE -- WHITEHEAD, RAE, BLAIR (Brice Blair was executor of will), RAMSEY (apprentice) NEVIN -- RITCHIE, AGNEW, SPOTTSWOOD, CALDERWOOD, RITCHART POTTINGER from Kirkwall, Orkney -- DUNLOP, TRAILL, BURROWES, TOLLEY RAINEY from Ayrshire (third generation) -- McCORMICK or McCONVILLE, EWING, VANCE, McKIBBON, HUTCHINSON, ASH SLOANE -- from Killyleagh, Co Down, Scottish, FLOWLER, ANNESLEY, HICKS, BAILIE, RUMBOLD, ELSMERE SMITH from Glasgow (many already mentioned names) THEAKER -- armergous English family - ARUNDELL THETFORD -- FORSTER, GURNER, LEWIS, MAGEE (executor), GARNETT, NICHOLAS, ROGERS, DOWDALL, NEGANS THOMPSON -- from lower Germany, naturalized 1624. FOSTER WARING -- WESTNERA, GREEN, PEERS, GARDINER, ROADS, WORKEMAN, WHITE/WHYTE -- from Yorkshire or Scotland -- CARMICHEL, McCULLUM, CLARKE, McCRACKEN, BALLAGH, CARY, STRONG. Note: NOT the famous Anglo-English family that settled in Down and remained Catholic to this day. YOUNG -- WALLACE, PARK, STURGEON These families are all 17th century -- 1600's. They intermarried with gentry all over Ireland. Much of Mz Angew's work was with wills and deeds. The first two vols of deeds (I think...it is early...) are on line at www.familytreemaker.com 's subscription library but also in many genealogy libraries.