According to Bell "Book of Ulster Surnames" Morrision is found in all of Ireland, every part. It's common in Ulster. It was among the 21st commonest names in Fermanagh in 1962. It is the 30th commonest Scottish surname. In Ireland people with the name can be of Irish, Scots or English origin. In Co Donegal there was a sept whose Irish name was anglicized to Morrison. They were and are in Inishowen (O Muirgheasain) Some of them became BRYSONs as well. At some early date some of these folk migrated to Lewis and Harris in the Scottish islands, becoming bards to the McLeods of Dunvegan. Elsewhere in Scotland and England the name derives from 'son of Maurice' or Morris. There were two septs with this name in Clan Buchanan. No doubt there's a few zillion lowlanders who were sons of various MOrrises and ended up Morrisons too. This illustrates how unuseful a surname can be to locate 'where' anyone came from. Until we've completed DNA mappings of the British Isles, we'll need to scare up some clues besides the surname. I like www.genealogy.com/university.html a LOT for getting ideas on where to look for clues or even a smoking gun (30 foot tombstone saying "Here lies Charlie Morrison of Ballybungle, Country Antrim, Ireland")!! You got lots of clues to follow up on already. These include: religion, occupation, relative wealth, first names of children. Got the surname of his wife? WHo lived near them? Who were witnesses to their wills? Who did their children marry? Any of the collateral lines retain any oral history your's didn't? etc, etc. It's like a murder mystery. Need more than the name of the murdered guy to find the murderer. Need lots of clues. PHase one is gather them. PHase two is analyze them. Maybe phase three is gather more clues or go back and test the hypothesis (ie if I think my MOrrisons came with the O'Widgets who we know are from Ballymudhole, maybe they are in the late 18th century flax growers census which survives for that parish. ....) There were and are a SLEW of them in Westmoreland County, PA. Still got the farm over the hill from my parents. Actually, took over a couple other 'Scotch-Irish' farms like the Blair farm on the other hill. I try to avoid them as they like to shoot dogs. If they shoot mine I shall have to launch a large number of very nasty Irish fairies on their sorry hides <grin>! They'll be wishing they never left ....er....where-ever!! Linda Merle >Quint Hart <qhart@plmw.com> Subject: MORRISON Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 >what area/areas in Ireland the Morrison familys, Charles, lived in in >1800--1830. I'm also trying to find where there were McNaught/McNaght >families in Ireland in 1775 -1820. Emalu > > > ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net