Hi Carolyn, >Many of my ancestors settled in Derry in1630s and later. Was this an >English Plantation Derry was originally an English plantation. However it is adjacent to Antrim and areas settled by Scots in Tyrone. There were no tall fences. Furthermore, the Scots were relatively eager to settle while the English recalled the disastrous attempts to 'plant' Ireland with English in the Elizabethan days. The ones who came died at an alarming rate from a form of dysentery (if my mind is recalling correctly) that became known as "The English disease" because so many of them had it. So before long it was full of Scots. I think this info is from Hanna "The Scotch-Irish". >Where could I find more information on this area? Well, you can do a google search. You can check what is in LDS at www.familysearch.org (library catalog) and order and read. I have done that. You can search the archives of this list for the word Derry (do Londonderry as well) and find all kinds of stuff that others have posted and transcribed. There's a lot of local history. Unfortunately not a lot of it is by county, as in the USA where all the counties have histories. It's is by community: Lagan Valley, "The Route", etc, etc. So you often have to begin reading the general history then identifying communities, then reading, googling, searching, etc, on the specific community. Also there are estates that need researched. There are also parish histories, the OS Memoir Series, and the PlaceName Series of Northern Ireland. If you start with a book like Ryan "IRish History" that gives you the overview for each county. If you visit www.rootsweb.com/~bifhsusa and check the research guide, it'll introduce you to Hayes' indexes to Irish manuscripts and Smith's inventories which index articles in periodicals in LDS. The notion I am trying to convey is that there are HUGE amounts of information, most of it not organized in a way that you would expect. Ie, much of it is secondary lit published in many periodicals and contained in collections of manuscripts. It's simply a matter of how much research you want to do. Linda Merle It's endless.... > > >> [Original Message] >> From: Linda Merle <merle@mail.fea.net> >> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> >> Date: 2/17/2006 1:12:11 PM >> Subject: [Sc-Ir] News >> >> Hi folks, if you are receiving this email you are on the Scotch Irish >list. If you are a new member (or old) let us know or remind us of your >research interests. There may be cousins alurking or someone with a helpful >suggestion. >> >> Meanwhile back in the homeland, our cousins are hard at work preserving >our heritage and history. The following website looks nice. Not much there >now, but sign up for the enewsletter: >> http://www.hamiltonmontgomery1606.com/ >> >> Before Jamie Stewart came up with his idea for a public plantation, two >Scotsmen started one of their own in Ireland. They had -- and it remains so >400 years later -- that they settled more Scots than anyone else. Yet we >continue to associate the early 1600s migration to Ireland with the >publicly planted counties -- though few of our ancestors lived there. They >instead infested Antrim and Down -- private plantations with (DANG!) far >fewer records. >> >> To quote from an article on Hamilton and Montgomery in the current issue >of "The Ulster-Scot" (see www.ulsterscotsagency.com for info on getting >it), "They pioneered a massive settlement from the Lowlands of Scotland to >County Antrim and Co unty Down. Starting in May 1606, over ten thousand >Lowland Scots made the short voyage across the North Channel, transforming >barren Ulster into an industrial powerhouse". (eventually! Of course our >ancestors had to endure the 17th century, not an easy thing to do in >Ireland). >> >> We're familiar with the early papers published in Hanna "The Scotch >Irish". Dr. Michael Montgomery, who has been known to join us on this list, >has uncovered a new stash of Montgomery papers, not in the Montgomery >papers because these were in Scotland. They include the marriage proposal >of Hugh Montgomery to his second wife. His first Elizabeth SHAW, died. She >was Sarah MAXWELL, daughter of William, Lord of Herries. >> >> The newspaper also contains an article by Dr. Montgomery that reprints >the marriage proposal. It was first published in "The Annandale Family Book >of the Johnstones Earls and Marquises of Annandale" ed. William Fraser. >Vol. 2, Edinburgh, 1894. >> >> And no, I do not know where you can get a copy. >> >> Another new website is http://www.breadyancestry.com/. It covers an area >in North Tyrone. It has a rich history including a medieval monastery and a >castle built by Turlough Luineach O'Neill, chieftain of the O'Neills. Then >the english built a fort. In the early 1700s the Earl of Abercorn was >granted the area (huge amounts of estate records are in LDS). Many from >Scotland settled here. >> >> Some of the records digitized on the website include: >> The registers of Bready Reformed Presbyterian Church, Donagheady Church >of Ireland, Donagheady Presbyterian Church, Leckpatrick Presbyterian Church >and Magheramason Presbyterian Church. >> Gravestone inscriptions from Grange, Old Donagheady and Old Leckpatrick >burial grounds >> Names of former pupils at Bready, Glenagoorland and Sandville schools >> Names extracted from maps, leases, letters and rentals of the Abercorn >estate from the 18th and 19th centuries >> 1901 census returns in full for the Bready area >> 19th-century valuation records >> >> Linda Merle >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________ >> Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net >> >> >> >> > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net