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

While my main interest remains the Francis HOBSON family line, I am developing an interest in **any** Ulster HOBSON from County Armagh. Forrest Plumstead fplum1@gmail.com Researching the following Surnames: Bushouse, Plumstead, Risser, Schroeder, Senne, Thayer, Quaker Families: Coppock, Heald, Hobson, Hollingsworth, Potts, Ross, Watt Plumstead and Associated Families: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fplum/ Military Kool Lynx: http://geocities.com/fplum/ Ham Radio WB5HQO http://forrest.3h.com/main.html ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Merle" <merle@mail.fea.net> To: <Scotch-Irish-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 3:06 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 > > > > >