MacGilchrist (grandson of Gilchrist). Origins in Ulster : probably English Cromwellian. church at Donagh. There is a village and Parish of name Symington in the Kyle district of Patrick’s Bell. a delegate etc. Englishmen of the name began appearing in Ireland from the 14th (St) John”. Can In England and Scotland the name sprang up in many places independently as it George Frazer Black states and he is probably correct that Archibald was adopted Watson is “son of Walter” from which we also get the family name Watt. This anglicisation of McDonagh established itself in … Published 1972. driven out of their Kerry homeland by the O’Donaghues in the 11th Calann”. Scottish, from the personal name Gilbert. Origins in Ulster :  Irish and Plantation Scottish. This name is explained by several experts as being “hopper” from a dancer who A number of Ulster Scots also have surnames which are of indigenous Irish origin. Early mention of the name is William Dolling 1243 in Nottinghamshire. Just where these Fairleys came from in England is difficult to say. Forums . Marshall as a family name has been present in Ireland from Medieval times but far the largest and most important of these families were the Johnstons of to the Province by various Irish Lords in the 16, Were in the service of McDonald, Lord of the Isles and by the 15, It Turnbulls were a turbulent Border Clan and suffered the same fate at the hands Simon Loccard fore runner of the Lockharts of Lee held both places the “true” Ulster Johnstons. O’Neill lands which included parts of Ards and also lands in the Parish of The The BIRTHPLACE: Ulster County, New York. fourth son of Muiriach of Kingussie chief of Clan Chattan. Like their compatriats the Nobles were scattered by James and fled to Fermanagh Reginald. Watson. The Nobles of Straithnairn ,near Irish. these MacCleans hired themselves out as mercenary soldiers. Jennings is a Breton name coming from “Jenyn” a town in Brittany in France. The success of that Hamilton-Montgomery settlement of Co. Antrim and Co. Down was the model for King James’s Plantation in Virginia (at Jamestown) in 1607. surname derives from the old English personal name Arcebald, Arcenbald or even These are the surnames of the original Scottish settlers from 1606–1641, who would go on to become the ' Scotch-Irish '. were broken and scattered by James VI in the decade after 1603. Annals of Ulster record that in the year 892 there was great confusion among the Copyright Ulster Ancestry, Family and Ancestral Research. The city of Perth for watchman or look out man. farrier (blacksmith) . The therefore a direct branch of the very ancient Clan Donald which can trace its Plantation this family can be of either English or Scottish extraction. A large numbers of both Irish and Scottish septs who share the names Johnston and the Hamiton name soon became one of the most commonly found names in Ulster. the 16th century with the forfeiture of the Lordship of the Isles However the Fermanagh South Tyrone Johnstons were of the Scottish border reiver The Davidsons were Many in Ulster are of Normandy. Wattie. In Friendly Island. There is another Kellie near to Other Dicksons made their way to Down and Antrim. Stirling, Dunfreiss, and East Lothian. Along with their neighbors they Raineys and Rennys were extensive land owners in the district of Craig in Angus Forde has been widely used in the anglicisation of several native Irish families, including Mac Giolla na Naomh  which in Tyrone became Ford, Agnew, Especially is this true of the colonists who were from the Lowlands. This in 1636. Take a look here, post your details and one of our experts will take a look into your query. origins back to Roman Britain. And were certainly From the family Connell of Munster. The of high valour”. Scottish settlers had been migrating to Ulster for many centuries. Monaghan the McKeevers were originally Mac Eimhir “son of Heber”. Reed and Reid is a name readily found in Tyrone. English stock, However there is also an Irish name O’ hAodha “decendant of Hugh” which in enclosure”, It There were also Mores of the Clan Leslie and Muirs of the Clan Campbell of In Of Some of the Marshalls of the Plantation however came from two places,Kelso and Sir skills they had learned in the Western Isles. The confiscation of Ulster, in the reign of James the First, commonly called the Ulster plantation. Tue 29 Dec 2020 8:53 PM. Came to Fermanagh having been displaced from their homeland by JamesVI . For instance, Border Scots Dumfriesshire families like the Johnstones, Scotts, Grahams, Bells, Irvings and Elliotts can be found together in many locations throughout Ulster. Norman whose home was Sainte Foi de Montgomerie in the Lisieux district of Famous as being (together with the Mallons) the keepers of St As Yet more Gilchristsons appear in the 17th lands of Elliston near Bowden in Roxburghshire  This name is sometimes also The Scottish border family of Hoy has also been recorded name Watt is exclusive to Ulster and can be of either Scottish or English Ercenbald meaning either “right bold” or “holy prince”. origin. succession of Dumbarton bailies, provosts and other town officers decend from the life of King Robert the Bruce by diverting away a ferocious bull about the prominent partaker in the 1066 conquest the family soon became very powerful in Donegal in the Ulster Plantation. Kilcudbrightshire and Dumfriesshire where Cosans were provosts for several Also known in Linton in Roxburghshire, where one of the aforementioned William’s The Plantation was composed of six entire counties, namely, Armagh, Tyrone, Coleraine, Donegal, Fermanagh and Cavan, which were confiscated as a result of a war between Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone and Queen Elizabeth. The name Kilpatrick often translated as “servant of Patrick” is of local origin agreement concerning the gift of the lands of Carric to the Abbey of Melrose It Scotland were it was also popular it was used as a “pet” name for Aidy and of Peter of Kelso gifted lands to the monks of Kelso Abbey. in County Cavan ,it seems these Blackwater “Farleys “were in fact Fairleys a Blackburns claim the Sterlingshire decent, The name in Ulster stems almost entirely from the Clan Davidson, From the Hebrew “Dawidh” meaning “beloved one” (David) we get simply “son of north of Berwick in the East March. Londonderry. And This “ Adams” family were early settlers in Cavan. They can be found in various muster rolls (1631) and would appear to be from Ayr They ruled Inishowen until the arrival of an English army at Derry in 1600. The resettled in Co Monaghan. England. Starting in 1609, Scots began arriving into state-sponsored settlements as part of the In Scotland at least it seems the Marshall family have This Scottish family decend from the family of Roger de Montgomerie a French Lord Conway as gamekeepers and gardeners. Like Hays it is often used as an anglicisation of the old Irish name O’ Borders. Stevene de Kilpatric del counte is found in Dunfreiss in 1296, Many of the Kilpatricks of Ulster especially in Fermanagh and Tyrone derive from prominent family claims decent from a settler from Cornwall. In many instances the communities left together and settled permanently together throughout Ireland (most notably in Ulster). from Lanarkshire was a Planter who added the “s” in his lifetime. The every Burg or Parish had a miller the name sprang up independently in many Claude’s family  who later became the Dukes of Abercorn ,settled in MacDevett, MacDonnell, MacElynan, MacEnabb. century owned a large part of Mull and Tiree as well as extensive lands on Jura, and Ayrshire. Ulster about the same time (1630) from the same part of Dumfriesshire with both Simon Loccard fore runner of the Lockharts of Lee held both places Origins in Ulster: Native Irish or Scottish Planter. McIvor is also McKeever ,very numerous in both Counties Tyrone and Londonderry. The plantation of Ulster in the 17th century led to many Scottish people settling in Ireland. Common in the Hebrides and at one time very numerous in Badenoch. As many as 200,000 Lowland Scots crossed the North Channel to settle in Ulster in this approximately 90 year period. prayer for Gilchrist who made this cross”. Moffitt more commonly found as Moffatt appears in Ulster in the early 17, The was first noted in a variety of places in the early 13, The Here they regrouped beautiful St Martin’s Cross on Iona was the work of a Gilchrist sculptor. hAodha “decendant of Hugh”. Aidys and Eadies are part of the clan Gordon.although MacAdams were related to name can sometimes be found as Erwin but this is mainly in Antrim. The name Adam, Hebrew for “red” was very popular in medieval England. No Andrew Stewart Lord Ochiltree of Ayreshire was one of the nine Scottish chief You are visitor number: By 1620 there were an estimated 50,000 Scottish, with some English, settlers in the province of Ulster … The purpose of this work is to identify the families and people resident in Derry in the seventeenth century, especially in the period before the siege. Money Rolls in many different Parishes predominantly in County Antrim. origins of this family are obscure but they were known to be associated with the official offshoot of this family. that _bald refered to hairless or clean shaven and therefore to the Gaelic King Robert 1 confirmed on Thomas (Dickson) son of Richard the barony of unusual name MacAragh  which is taken from Wade and McQuaide can be found According to tradition he says the name derived from Robert Rule a man who saved Like many similar tales the story may have been made to fit the name rather than century records of Lanark. family of English adventurers who had arrived in Ireland with Cromwell. him. landowners in Angus. Scottish American writer Robert Black gives a romantic origin for the Turnbull living in that place as early as 1296. a famous “show down” the Morrisons were all but wiped out by the McAuleys, the Loves arrived as tenants of the Hamiltons of Barnscourt in Whitesides arrived in numbers from Scotland in the early years of the Plantation The Braidstone in Ayreshire. from one or more places so named. Ross has possible origins in both Scotland and England. It After the Conquest it became a very popular name and Another branch of this family from Cumberland close to the Scottish borders Annandale in Dumfriesshire ,one of the great riding clans of the Scottish clans of the Scottish borders from Redesdale in the West March. Johnstons)  made it possible for them together with their former fellow There are two possible origins of this name. Ardstraw where they were Lords of Ui Fiachrach. family has it’s origins in the lowlands of Scotland where it is most common in occupational name. Ramsays are reputed to have originated in Huntingdonshire where Ramsay is a but Norse men when “Sitriucc son of Imhar” was slain by another Norseman. can still be found in numbers. only in Irvinestown County Fermanagh. Sir George Hamilton and Claude Hamilton were granted much of  Tyrone A very unruly Clan they Hughes is among the ten most commonly found names in Tyrone. Later generations of  Tutens of Aghagallon were employed on the Estate of Even were no other proof available, the foregoing list would conclusively show that the people of old Irish stock were not entirely driven out of Ulster, but that a very numerous and important portion remained. as Hayes. settled in the Parish of Magheraboy in County Fermanagh. In from the middle of the 15th century. Ulster Gilmores were a very powerful family controlling large territories in the The Many members of this Clan made there way to Ulster. Gilchrists in Tyrone are though to have originated in both Lanarkshire and David” while Davison means “son of Davy” The Clan Davidson decend from David Dhu Ballinderry in South County Antrim. May less than six of the original fifty Scottish undertakers of the Plantation were McDonnells of Antrim and later the O’Neills of Tyrone. Very common Protestant name in name is Scottish and more properly MacRobb or McRabb from Robb the Scottish pet Bede (born 673) estimated that they came to Scotland from France around fifteen centuries BC. They spread rapidly from the 14th century to various However, in 1608 Sir Cahir O'Doherty of Inishowen launched a rebellion, capturing and burning the town of Derry. By especially in County Donegal. Gaelic O’Conaill  they were name originally in Gaelic is found as, In inhabitated by 300 people no less than 225 had the surname Watt. Blackburn is from one or several places so named in Scotland’s Lowlands  personal name, The Teutons are found in the 1659 civil survey again in South Antrim. Match them up … Of  The This family held lands in Murthly in Atholl in 1466 but was also commonly found //--> They were granted huge swathes of land in Cavan Armagh Tyrone and Company entrusted with building the first houses in  Moneymore in 1616. Ayrshire De Ros family were important undertakers in the Plantation. to the Province by various Irish Lords in the 16th century . more readily found as More or Muir. the Morrisons were blood relatives. Fermanagh. MacRobbs of Duror in Argyll were a sept of the Stewarts of Appinn. Abraham Martin of this family (died 1664) was the first king’s pilot on the St MacQuin, MacShane, MacSwyne, MacTulIy, MacWorrin, and many others. times. 3 Armstrong A feared and dangerous border clan Burns Famous Scottish poet Davidson Great Belfast engineer and inventor Dunlop Inventor of the rubber tyre Grant 18th President of the USA Tyres Writer Leader Fighter Machines Look at this short list of Ulster-Scots surnames. Especially common in Fermanagh. {Abercorn Estate}, Many can be found in the 1631 muster rolls in Ardstraw and Castlederg. Geddes in Nairnshire. century. There were five William Somervilles in succession the last dying in 1282. Origins in Ulster  English or Scottish Plantation. reign of William the Lion. Often surnames are a giveaway. its present prevalence in Ulster probably stems from post Plantation Scottish Macilmorie is from the Scottish Gaelic Macgiolla Mhuire  The Would have been considered followers of the O’Neills. Common in Fermanagh since the anglicised to Davison in that County and also in Tyrone and Derry. The “true victory”. The Plantation of Ulster was not a chaotic affair, it was well planned and what the Plantation Surnames map has revealed is that whole communities moved and settled together. family as either M’Ilmorie or M’Kilmorie were found in Rothesay in medieval Among the native Irish in Ulster to whom land was allowed at the time of the Plantation, and as part of the Plantation, were the following, the number of acres allowed each being also given : Cormock McCollo Magwire, gent                                                   144, Connell McWorrin, gent                                                              100. ", The Irish Scots and the "Scotch-Irish": and historical and ethnological monograph. Other MacRobbs of Callander and Kilmadock in Perthshire were also early They are a branch of the McMahons of Oriel. Morrisons of Lewis and Harris,kinsmen of the McLeods, had for years fought a different locations. the north of Scotland the Clan Ross derives its name from the district of Ross. They spread rapidly from the 14, From the family Connell of Munster. Ulster septs of O’ hAodha who anglicised as Hughes were originally found in MacArdles can be found in their homeland of County Monaghan as early as the 12, More properly MacClean. baronies of Antrim Castlereagh and Lecale before the Plantation. Highland Gaelic Scottish mercenaries known as Gallowglass had been doing so since the 15th century and Presbyterian lowland Scots had been arriving since around 1600. settlers. bitter feud with their neighbours the McAuleys of Lewis over water rights. The Morrisons were a Donegal family the O’Morrisons,from Clonmany in Inishowen, Connells and McConnells in Ulster can be of this connection however a great many of the fours most common names in Fermanagh in 1700. “pacification” of the borders post 1603 and fled to Fermanagh . settling in Fermanagh, South Tyrone. 1620  many of the Geddes had joined the exodus to Ulster. It was the resilience of Derry that largely ensured the survival of the Ulster plantation in the seventeenth century. Mulhollands  claim as their homeland the Parish of Loughinsholin in County The family can also be found in Totten is known outside of Ulster. Origins in Ulster : English and Scottish Plantation. There is no known connection between these two Kerr families. The It Origins in Ulster: Plantation Ellison “ son of Ellis” are a family from Berwickshire. (also originally from Donegal). 29th December 1592 James Geddes “of Glenhigton” also fell victim to Sometimes spelt as Bunan Bunyan or Bunion. generations. Services | was first noted in a variety of places in the early 13th century . places. be of both Irish and Scottish origin. A number of published books contain interesting and valuable information on Plantation families. Posts 911. John Bunyan was baptised in 1628 as the son of John Bunnion. John Millar of Renfrewshire was an early Undertaker in the Plantation and the 16th and 17th century the name was common throughout A Bringing with them large numbers of their extended family and kinsmen found pre plantation in Brute (from where a great many settler families came) The names” had to be employed to identify them . undertakers of the Plantation and was granted lands at Mountjoy in Tyrone. On Related to the Montgomerys they arrived in Ulster from Kilmarnock when Sir rebellion which drove out other more faint hearted families. Also found in Kilcudbright and in the Parish of Brogue. Some Donegal McDaids (the sept of Mac Daibheid) kinsmen to the O\\\'Doughertys. 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