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1 UHF Surnames Map FINAL AW 13/10/08 10:15 Page 1. TheScotsinUlster Abercrombie Ferry Machell Peacock Acheson Forester Machen Peebles Achmootie Fingleton Macintyre Peere Adair Finlay Mackeson Petticrew Adams Flack Macklelland Plowright Agnew Fleming Magee Pollock Aicken Forecheade Maghan Pont Alexander Forsith Martin Pooke Algeo Frazer Mathysin Power Allen Freeborne Maxwell Price Anderson Fullerton McAlexander Pringle Andrews Fulton McAula Purveyance The First Scottish Migrations to Ulster ,1606 1641. Arkles Futhie McAulay Rae Arnett Fyieff McAuld Ralston SURNAME MAP. Austin Gaate McBurney Ramsay Bailie Galbraith McCamuel Rankin Barbour Galt McCartney Read Barkley Gamble McCashin Redgate Barr Gemmil McCassick Reid Barry Gibb McCausland Richardson Bauld Gibson McCawley Ritchie Bell Gillaspie McClairne Robb Black Gilmore McCreaghan Robert BALFOUR (BURLEY). Blackwood Glass McCrery Robin Blair Glen SOURCES: McCullough Robinson STEWART (AUBIGNY). Boyd Glye McDonnell Robson HOME. Boyle Gordon McDougall Rodgers STEWART (LENNOX).

2 The information on this map was compiled from a Bozwell Graham McDowell Roger number of sources including George Hill, An Historical DOUGLAS HAMILTON. Brackley Granger McErdy Rose Account of the Plantation of Ulster (1877), David HAMILTON (ABERCORN). McEvene Rudd Stewart, The Scots in Ulster (1954), Michael Perceval Brisbane Granton Maxwell, The Scottish migration to Ulster in the reign Brown Gray McEwen Russell of James I (1973), denization and naturalisation Bruce Greenshields McFarland Sare records, Ulster inquisitions and various other records. ATLANTIC McGee Saunderson Bryce Greer NO Shading reflects level of migration Buchanan Grindall OCEAN from Scotland to Ulster McGern Savage RT McGowan Sawer Burke Gryme H. Burne Grynney McIlchany Sayne STEWART (OCHILTREE). 4. STEWART. Burns Haldane McIlmurry Scott McSWEENEY Ballycastle C. S C O T L A N D. Coleraine Buthill Hall McIlveyne Semple 2. H. STEWART McCLELLAND MACDONNELL. Cahoon Hamill 3. Antrim McIlwrath Seton KNOX. A. Ballymoney Londonderry Londonderry Calte Hamilton McKaudy Sharpe N.

3 CUNNINGHAM. Glenarm Calwell Harne McKay Shaw STEWART. N. Donegal D. KNOX Raphoe HAMILTON ADAIR SHAW. Campbell Harper McKearne Shirloe U L S T E R N. LESLIE. EL. Strabane Ballymena A. Carcott Harvey McKee Simpson HAMILTON COLVILLE AGNEW. McCLELLAND. L. HAMILTON. Carlile Hatrick McKernan Skingeor MURRAY EDMONSTONE. HAMILTON. Carmichael Heigate G McKilmun Smelley 5 Carrickfergus Tyrone DRUMMOND. Carothers Henderson N McKinney Smellham RICHARDSON Bangor Donaghadee STEWART HAMILTON. Carr Hendrie McKittrick Smith Ballyshannon Belfast Newtownards STEWART MONTGOMERY. Carslaw Hendry McKym Smyth 1. Dungannon HAMILTON. HUME ERSKINE. Carson Henrison McLellan Somervell O'NEILL. E. DUNBAR STEWART HAMILTON. Fermanagh Down Cathcart Henry McLintagh Spence Enniskillen ACHESON 6. Armagh Armagh Catherwood Hepburn IRISH SEA McLoghery Spier MAGUIRE HAMILTON. Cawder Highgate McLornan Spottiswood BALFOUR PRINCIPAL. monaghan monaghan Chambers Hilton McMakene Stanehouse CREIGHTON MAGENNIS SCOTTISH. LANDLORD. Clapham Hogg McMath Stanton O'NEILL Newry SCOTTISH LANDLORD.

4 Clendinning Holmes McMillin Steele IN Ulster CRAIG O'REILLY. IRISH LANDLORD IN Ulster . Cloggie Honis McNaughton Stephenson ACHESON HAMILTON. Cavan HAMILTON. Coch Hood McNeill Stevenson BAILIE. Colquhoun Hope McNilly Stevin Colville Cooper Cowper Howell Howie Howson Landowners Ministers Settlers Life McPhedrish McVegany Means Stewart Strawbridge Sturgeon Craig Hudgsone Meen Sutherland Crawford Huggin Melvin Symington A total of 59 Scottish landowners (or undertakers as they were known) Many Scottish ministers came to Ulster in the Most of the people who came to Ulster in The government wanted the settlers to live together in villages on received lands in the Plantation of Ulster . Most were minor lairds, early 17th century and played an important the early 17th century were not lords and each estate and not scattered here and there. It was thought that the Creighton Hunter Mikell Symonson though others, such as Ludovic Stewart, Duke of Lennox, and James role in religious life in the province.

5 Some sirs, but ordinary folk who were hoping for settlers would be safer if they lived close to each other. However, in Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn, were aristocrats and held important were here for only a few years before a better life through farming or trade. They reality most of the settlers did not live like this. Most of the farmers Creire Hutchine Millar Syne positions in the Scottish government. Many of the original grantees returning to Scotland, while others spent mainly came from places such as Ayrshire, preferred to live on their farms rather than in a village. They did not Crosby Johnson Miller Tate sold out early on. Some never even made it as far as Ireland. Others most of their lives in Ireland. Among the Dumfries and Galloway, and Lanarkshire. want to have to spend time each day walking several miles from a took their responsibilities seriously and built fortifications and Scottish bishops was George Montgomery, Surnames associated with this area village to their farms, perhaps having to cross a river or boggy land.

6 Cunningham Johnston Mitchell Taylor introduced the required number of settlers to their estates. Brief (left) brother of Sir Hugh Montgomery, who include Crawford, Cunningham, Hamilton One of the big changes brought about by the Plantation was the Cuthbertson Julius outlines of the activities of two undertakers are given below. was bishop of the dioceses of Clogher, Derry and Montgomery. Other settlers came Moffatt Tees and Raphoe, all at the same time. from the Borders area of south-east Scotland including the Armstrongs, establishment of towns. In County Tyrone the Earl of Abercorn Danielston Karns Molsed Thomas Sir George Hamilton of Greenlaw was a younger son of Lord Claud Beattys, Elliotts, Grahams and Johnstons. Here are brief biographies of established a town at Strabane. Many of the landlords were not Hamilton of Paisley, near Glasgow. In 1610 he and two of his older The next bishop of Raphoe after Montgomery was Andrew Knox. He two men who lived quite close to each other near Strabane.

7 Wealthy enough to establish a town and so founded a village on their Davidson Keeland Moncrieg Thompson brothers, the Earl of Abercorn, and Sir Claud Hamilton of Shawfield, was minister in a number of parishes in Scotland before becoming lands instead. In County Armagh the Acheson family founded a received grants of land in Strabane barony in north-west County Bishop of the Isles. Knox converted a former monastery in Rathmullan, Hugh Hamilton of Lisdivin was from Priestfield in Blantyre near Glasgow. village that was later to become Markethill. Davyson Kelso Monett Thomson Tyrone. Right from the start Sir George proved to be an energetic County Donegal, to his own private house. He died in 1633 and was In the early stages of the Plantation, he, together with his brother Deans Kennedy Moneypenny Todd planter. He differed from most of the settlers who came to Ulster from succeeded by John Leslie who lived to be 100 years old. Leslie built a William, moved to the Strabane area where he worked as a merchant.

8 In Those granted land were required to build a fortification on their Scotland in the early 17th century in that he was a Roman Catholic. large castle in Raphoe, the ruins of which can still be seen today. In 1615, he was granted the townland of Lisdivin by the Earl of Abercorn. lands. The simplest type of fortress was known as a bawn' (from the Deinbone Kernes Montgomery Trail 1621 James Spottiswood became bishop of Clogher. He rebuilt the His rent was to be either 6 in cash or a cask of French wine, one pound Irish for cow fort'). A bawn was a courtyard surrounded by strong Sir Robert McClelland of Bombie was born about 1592 in walls and was usually square or rectangular. The most important of Demstar Kilpatrick Moon Trane cathedral and tried to establish a town at Clogher. of good pepper, four pounds of loaf sugar and a box of marmalade. Kirkcudbright in south-west Scotland. He was still a teenager when the new landlords were Dewar Kinnear Moore Trench he was appointed the chief undertaker Dozens of Scottish ministers served in Ultimately of Italian origin, the Algeo family expected to build a in the barony of Boylagh and Banagh in Ulster in the early seventeenth century.

9 Lived in Paisley near Glasgow. Robert Algeo strong castle as well Dick Knox Moorhead Trimble the west of County Donegal. These lands Archibald Adair was dean of Raphoe. In (gravestone left) came to Ulster in the early as a bawn. Scottish were mainly mountainous and Sir Robert 1622 he was described as an eloquent settlers needed places Dickson Kuming Morgan Tullis years of the Plantation and helped Sir George showed little interest in developing scholar and good preacher of God's Word'. Hamilton of Greenlaw to manage his estates. to gather for public Doninge Kyd Morne Udney them, selling out in 1616. He did not Men such as Robert Blair of Bangor and In 1622 Robert Algeo prepared a report of Sir worship. Some times abandon his interest in Ulster , however, John Livingstone (right) of Killinchy were they repaired an Dougal Kyle Morrison Valentine George's estates for government officials for within a couple of years he was ministers with Presbyterian convictions. existing church and investigating the Plantation.

10 Robert Algeo Douglas Laderdeill Morrow Vance leasing two estates in County For a time they were tolerated within the on other occasions Londonderry (right) and had introduced Church of Ireland, but in the 1630s were was a Catholic, making him different from they built a completely over 200 settlers to these lands. forced out by less sympathetic bishops. most of the Scots coming to Ulster . new church. Dowling Lainge The early Scottish Presbyterian Morton Waddell Drum Lauder settlements and ministers in Ulster Mowlane Walker Plantation around 1660. Drummond Lawes Antrim Muntreeth Wallace Dunbar Lawson MacDonnells Antrim Murdogh Walshe Dunlop Laycock Plantation of Ulster Londonderry Murduff Walson Dunne Leckey Donegal Mure Wanchop In the early seventeenth century thousands In the early seventeenth century a number Dunsayer Leech Murray Wardlaw (counties Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, of Scots moved to Ulster . Many of these men of ministers with Presbyterian convictions Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone).