Hi Mark, unless it's in the Montgomery papers, most likely no one knows. No one knows for sure the names of the early settlers. The Montgomery papers are published in Hanna "The Scotch Irish" but I do not recall any specific date given. The other place to check is the Public Records Office in Kew Gardens. It's full of unpublished, unindexed, uncateloged manuscript materials. No one really knows what all is there. We are slowly finding out as scholars wade their way through. I had briefly corresponded with a man who was able to use English spy documents from the 1500s to prove that his ancestor had been in the McDonald army that came to Ulster in the second half of the 1500s. Queen Elizabeth had spies everywhere. I do not know exactly how he found this Elizabethan documents in the PRO or how they were cataloged, but he did find them. I suspect there is a wealth of manuscripts to be found there. There are some lists of very early Down settlers in the archives of this list. Lastly a good search of the standard Irish indexes is in order: NIDS and Hayes, for starters. There are also published books with lists of manuscripts pertaining to Ireland that are held in various libraries in England and Scotland. These include the names of men sent off by various counties in Cromwell and other early armies. I am sorry I can't give you more specifics -- everything is packed away in boxes and on a moving van. Linda Merle ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Mark Thompson <wmthompson@btinternet.com> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 23:46:56 +0100 >Hello all, >I'm trying to find the specific date in May 1606 when the first >boatloads of Lowland Scots arrived in Ulster to populate the Hamilton >and Montgomery settlements. >Neither Percival Maxwell nor John Harrison provide an accurate date - >any help very much appreciated, > >Mark > >Mark Thompson >136 Shore Road >Clydesburn >Ballyhalbert >County Down >Northern Ireland >BT22 1BJ >................................... >Home: 028 4275 8367 >Mobile: 07712 213457 >email: wmthompson@btinternet.com >.................................... > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net