-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [SCOTS~GEN] [Fwd: Dowling] Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:01:39 -0700 From: Daphne Kilbourn-Jacob <[email protected]> Reply-To: [email protected] Organization: Rocks & Rites To: [email protected] References: <[email protected]> [email protected] wrote: > > Please note the correct address for the mailing list shown above. > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Dowling > Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 08:48:26 -0700 > From: "Debbie Davidson" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > > Hi > > I am wondering how to find out how far back the name Dowling > and it's > variations go in Scotland History. Thank you for any help. > > Debbie > Dear Debbie, My "bible' of Scottish Surnames, by G. Black does not list DOWLING, although Dow and Dove are listed as sometimes interchangeable. I could not find any other connection. Perhaps another list member can be more helpful. I did look up Dowling in the "Surnames of Ireland" by Edward MacLysaght and found the name listed as "One of the Seven Septs of Leix" whose territory was along the river Barrow, called O'Dowlings country or "Fearrann ua nDunlaing". They were "transplanted to Co. Kerry and are found most often in south Leinster currently. Another spelling is Doolan, in Connacht; Dolan. MacLysaght gives no dates but from these scraps, I would explore the possibility that this was one of the older and militant Septs that Lord Cromwell sought to 'break' during the Resto- ration era, 1640 - 1660, in his efforts to stamp out "Papism" in Ireland, as well as the rest of the British Isles. "To Hell or Connacht" gives a hair raising description of his extreme brutality. During the industrial revolution, many Irish were forced by economic pressures to go to Scotland to find work and this may be the Scottish connection. Regards, Daphne Jacob