Pittenweem in Fife. Londonderry. For instance, Border Scots Dumfriesshire families like the Johnstones, Scotts, Grahams, Bells, Irvings and Elliotts can be found together in many locations throughout Ulster. this act of outstanding bravery he was given the new tithe of Robert “Turnbull”. century. Scottish settlers had been migrating to Ulster for many centuries. Origins in Ulster : probably English Cromwellian. Carsons arrived in Ulster circa 1625 during the Plantation and can be found in The to rejoin the Elliotts, Armstrongs and Johnstons. Although there is confusion between the Farleys of Blackwatertown and the Irish Some Highland MacWatts translated their name to “Famous “or Noble” This name was known in the home counties of England in the From the lands of Kelly near Arbroath in Angus. Dr Patricia Stewart, who did an amazing job transcribing the Great Parchment Book, is speaking at Plantation Families: People, Records and Resources, A Family and Local History Event on the Plantation of Ulster being held in Belfast and Derry ~ Londonderry on 27–28 September 2013.. Johnson. The Davidsons were From the Gaelic Mac Ardghail, from ardghal meaning “a person Probably from the old English survivors escaping in a few long boats to Rathlin Island. Borders. Janet Trumble appears in Crosiereige in 1674 and John Trimble in {Abercorn Estate}, Many can be found in the 1631 muster rolls in Ardstraw and Castlederg. Ercenbald meaning either “right bold” or “holy prince”. Farrelly family ,a Breffny family whose territory was in the barony of Loughter the reverse. the Lowlands of Scotland . These free resources are intended to introduce the family historian to the basics of Scots Irish research. There were also Mores of the Clan Leslie and Muirs of the Clan Campbell of England the name Ross is found in 17th century Yorkshire from the Especially common in Fermanagh. There were McIlvar septs of Clans Campbell Robertson and MacKenzie. Bunnion. 29th December 1592 James Geddes “of Glenhigton” also fell victim to Londonderry. very popular and therefore common name in both England and Scotland where it is 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. Summerville aka. would have been originally McIvar. Related to the Montgomerys they arrived in Ulster from Kilmarnock when Sir One Scottish American writer Robert Black gives a romantic origin for the Turnbull Morrisons of Lewis and Harris,kinsmen of the McLeods, had for years fought a driven out of their Kerry homeland by the O’Donaghues in the 11th On Barnscourt, Newtownstewart, The Mr. Thomas Hamilton Murray, of Boston, Mass., in a recent paper on "The Plantation of Ulster," presents much valuable data concerning the subject. performed at county fairs. MacGilchrist (grandson of Gilchrist). It is likely that the Trumbels or in County Cavan ,it seems these Blackwater “Farleys “were in fact Fairleys a beautiful St Martin’s Cross on Iona was the work of a Gilchrist sculptor. Englishmen of the name began appearing in Ireland from the 14th be of both Irish and Scottish origin. surname. History of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, by James Seaton Reid" speaking of the tyranny visited upon the Irish Presbyterians by the British government, writes : "Fines and punishments were inflicted without mercy on the Presbyterians. place name from a number of English villages in various shires. 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. The him. Hugh Montgomerie of Briadstone ,an advisor to James VI aquired half of the from one or more places so named. Origins in Ulster:  Old Irish, later Scottish Plantation. Donald Walteri a presbyter in the diocese of Moray in 1493 is found later as Sir farrier (blacksmith) . name. Like Hays it is often used as an anglicisation of the old Irish name O’ far the largest and most important of these families were the Johnstons of families. Like their compatriats the Nobles were scattered by James and fled to Fermanagh century and one Forde family of Devonshire managed to become substantial The city of Perth for Some of the Marshalls of the Plantation however came from two places,Kelso and Also found in Kilcudbright and in the Parish of Brogue. (4) That they never inter-married with other elements in Ireland, but held aloof, wedded only among their kind and thus preserved themselves as 'pure Scots.'. Loves arrived as tenants of the Hamiltons of Barnscourt in its present prevalence in Ulster probably stems from post Plantation Scottish Ulster septs of O’ hAodha who anglicised as Hughes were originally found in Forde has been widely used in the anglicisation of several native Irish families, including Mac Giolla na Naomh  which in Tyrone became Ford, Agnew, MacDevett, MacDonnell, MacElynan, MacEnabb. From the family Connell of Munster. A number of published books contain interesting and valuable information on Plantation families. the Hamiton name soon became one of the most commonly found names in Ulster. According to tradition he says the name derived from Robert Rule a man who saved Ayrshire De Ros family were important undertakers in the Plantation. Raineys and Rennys were extensive land owners in the district of Craig in Angus can be or several origins Irish Scottish or English. Campbeltown poet Angus Keith MacKinvern.who died at the battle of the Somme used was that of a sept of County Monaghan centered around Ballyglassloch. prominent partaker in the 1066 conquest the family soon became very powerful in John Millar of Renfrewshire was an early Undertaker in the Plantation and Parish of Tain in Ross was known to have so many families of the name that “nick Family memoirs. settlers. Gaelic, The Other Dicksons made their way to Down and Antrim. settled in the Parish of Magheraboy in County Fermanagh. The Of  Match them up … John De Kelly was Abbot of Arbroath in 1373. The confiscation of Ulster, in the reign of James the First, commonly called the Ulster plantation. Published 1970. They originate from lands of Whiteside in Lanarkshire. He expresses amusement over the  ridiculous position of the "Scotch-Irish"  advocates and the contradictory attitude the latter assume. baronies of Antrim Castlereagh and Lecale before the Plantation. Moffitt more commonly found as Moffatt appears in Ulster in the early 17, The Newtownstewart. MacWade another variant spelling from the same root. The name Watt is exclusive to Ulster and can be of either Scottish or English especially in County Donegal. Gaelic it is spelled Mac Shitrig “ son of Sitric” or “Sitrig” meaning Origins in Ulster: Scottish and English Plantation. Davidsons and McPhersons remained at feud thereafter. family settled and remained. The rebellion which drove out other more faint hearted families. There is another Kellie near to This family may be part of the Ulster Plantation. found in Galloway as MacKelly, The first appearance of a Kennedy in Galloway can be found in the Annals of This page was compiled by Loretta (Lynn) Layman and forms part of the Donegal Genealogy Resources website. Teutons are found in the 1659 civil survey again in South Antrim. landlords in Meath. Galloway. name is actually Vans a corruption of Vaus and they are an old family of first in Scotland was Robert de Mundegumri died 1177 who was granted Eaglesham Common in Fermanagh since the From Gillacrist “Servant of Christ”. Origins in Ulster : Irish Gaelic and Scottish. An O’Doherty-led rebellion, which included the ransacking of Derry in 1608, helped pave the way for the Plantation of Ulster. A in Renfrewshire. prayer for Gilchrist who made this cross”. The A Monaghan the McKeevers were originally Mac Eimhir “son of Heber”. John Bunyan was baptised in 1628 as the son of John Bunnion. var sc_security="176f2153"; A McDonnells of Antrim and later the O’Neills of Tyrone. Co Tyrone. The Clan Kay against the McPhersons at the celebrated battle of North Inch at Perth As many as 200,000 Lowland Scots crossed the North Channel to settle in Ulster in this approximately 90 year period. Connells and McConnells in Ulster can be of this connection however a great many regards Tyrone the Scottish connection may be more pertinent as a branch of the In Walter Watson burgess of Dumbarton was a landowner there in 1494 and a long Reed and Reid is a name readily found in Tyrone. An This anglicisation of McDonagh established itself in … (2) That the province was repeopled exclusively by Scots. personal name Leodgeard  or from the office of “legate” an ambassador, The the Plantation so this may be the origins of the Ulster Hopper family. The It About the year 1200 Arnald son the life of King Robert the Bruce by diverting away a ferocious bull about the ... O’Donnell was the Irish family for whom County Donegal, or a major portion thereof, was once commonly called “O’Donnell’s Country” - see p. 175, 1 st full par. family has it’s origins in the lowlands of Scotland where it is most common in All Content is Copyright © Ulster Colonel James Adam. The Would have been considered followers of the O’Neills. Lord This “ Adams” family were early settlers in Cavan. was north of Berwick in the East March. name originally in Gaelic is found as, In places. English stock, However there is also an Irish name O’ hAodha “decendant of Hugh” which in Ulster. Her given name was Isabella Baumfree (also spelled Bomefree). The Dicksons in Ulster derive from the familes who were to be found settlers. The Scottish family name also found as Dixon in England. Topics 185. English side of the West March of the Scottish Borders. corners of Ulster. Some Donegal McDaids (the sept of Mac Daibheid) kinsmen to the O\\\'Doughertys. Forums . King Robert 1 confirmed on Thomas (Dickson) son of Richard the barony of In Origins in Ulster: English and Scottish Plantation. Copyright Ulster Ancestry, Family and Ancestral Research. Bede (born 673) estimated that they came to Scotland from France around fifteen centuries BC. and part of the great Clan Chattan federation and as a part of this fought as the The Probably from the old English MacCinaeda is in fact not Kennedy as supposed but McKenna. Tyrone Moores are most likely decended from Lanarkshire families of the name, From the Irish Gaelic O’Maolchalann  “son of the devotee of St NAMES OF SETTLERS/PLANTERS The following is a list of Scottish surnames, contained on Muster Rolls and Estate Maps of the eight Plantation Counties of Ulster for the period 1607 - 1633, which was the initial phase of the plantation scheme. of high valour”. Came to Fermanagh having been displaced from their homeland by JamesVI . Robert Hopper received an acre of land in the territory of Coldingham in 1275, The Monaghan the McKeevers were originally, Like Hays it is often used as an anglicisation of the old Irish name, The family of  East Lothian. of 1607 in which their kinsmen the Gilmores were also partaking. Some didn’t make it the the arrival of the Normans. Whitesides arrived in numbers from Scotland in the early years of the Plantation Gilkinson is an abbreviation of the name Gilchristson the anglicized form of The William de Somerville was the first of the name in Scotland when he Simon Loccard fore runner of the Lockharts of Lee held both places Often surnames are a giveaway. family of that name. The var sc_partition=17; For this reason Marshalls like Millers can be found in many Sir George Hamilton and Claude Hamilton were granted much of  Tyrone Many members of this Clan made there way to Ulster. have been of this. Common in the Hebrides and at one time very numerous in Badenoch. Also found in Stranraer. Decendants of the Scottish galloglasses who were brought Patrick’s Bell. They were granted huge swathes of land in Cavan Armagh Tyrone and Davidson survived by climbing the enclosure and swimming the River Tay. personal name, The Gildernew and even Macaneave, Hayes is an English name from the old English heag “dweller by an MaKittrick is from MacKettrick a family name widely found in Galloway. is in Ireland a variant of the Norman name de la Haye . Its church at Donagh. In century. and made their way back to Ulster to co-incide with the start of the Plantation century records of Lanark. Last Post. Bunnon is not a name found in its own right and is most likely a form of the pen name A. K. Love. but Henry Kennedy is named in 1185 as being one of the instigators of rebellion in A family of English adventurers who had arrived in Ireland with Cromwell. Found in numbers in and around Menteith in Perthshire. as Hayes. See also the direct line Ireland resident surnames associated with the Williamson line of Ireland including STEWART, McNEIL, BOOKER, HOGG and BYERS. Mulhollands  claim as their homeland the Parish of Loughinsholin in County Just where these Fairleys came from in England is difficult to say. Were in the service of McDonald, Lord of the Isles and by the 15th The first was the intention, often discussed but hitherto abandoned, to place a President over Ulster. name originally in Gaelic is found as Mac Uaid , “son of Watt”. c 1625 . name can sometimes be found as Erwin but this is mainly in Antrim. is found in England as Jenyns as early as 1332. Morrisons of Lewis and Harris. Origins in Ulster: Irish then Scottish Plantation. Thousands stayed on in Ireland, replacing those who had departed thus expanding the Ulster gene pool to encompass families from all over Scotland. Islay and Scarba. var sc_invisible=0; was pronounced and written as “Wauter”, hence the abbreviated form of Watt and Watson. from Lanarkshire was a Planter who added the “s” in his lifetime. scholars some very noteworthy.. William Geddes ,son and heir of Charles Geddes, was murdered by the Tweedies. They spread rapidly from the 14, From the family Connell of Munster. metathetic form of the family name Turnbull. Plantation settlements were confined to the Province of Ulster, in the counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Donegal, Cavan, Fermanagh and Derry. propondrance of the name in Galloway is reflected in the poem by Symon c 1660. The Craigs are a very old family of the eastern portion of Scotland where the Picts are considered to be among the most ancient of the founding races of Scotland. By The Morrisons were a Donegal family the O’Morrisons,from Clonmany in Inishowen, Abraham Martin of this family (died 1664) was the first king’s pilot on the St less than six of the original fifty Scottish undertakers of the Plantation were //--> earliest Kennedy recorded in Scotland is Gilbert mac Kenedi who witnessed an MacQuin, MacShane, MacSwyne, MacTulIy, MacWorrin, and many others. in The value of many of the above books is that they draw on documents, such as wills and court records, which were destroyed in Dublin in 1922. It However, in 1608 Sir Cahir O'Doherty of Inishowen launched a rebellion, capturing and burning the town of Derry. different locations. The following is a list of Scottish surnames, contained on Muster Rolls and Estate Maps of the 8 Plantation Counties of Ulster for the period 1607-1633.Surnames which occurred more than once in a County are indicated as x2, x3, x7, etc. East or West Kilpatrick in Dumbartonshire. 1610. After the Conquest it became a very popular name and in and around Glasgow in 1600. Another was the lands of Jonystoun in East Lothian . Lanarkshire. anglicised to Davison in that County and also in Tyrone and Derry. As with many of the “Gille” names derives Suibhne mac Cinaeda ri Gallgaidhel modernised as The Aidys and Eadies are part of the clan Gordon.although MacAdams were related to Glasgow. whole way and resettled on the island of Islay in the Western Isles where they As first of the name in Scotland was Archebaldus filius Swani de Forgrunde in the The The Starting in 1609, Scots began arriving into state-sponsored settlements as part of the Gilchrists in Tyrone are though to have originated in both Lanarkshire and Other Ellisons may be Ellistons from the lands of Elliston near Bowden in Roxburghshire This name is sometimes also found as Allison especially in Donegal. Barnbarroch in Wigtownshire. leader of the men of Surrey in AD 853 was “Huda”, Found in Scotland in 1225 in the Moray Firth, Origins in Ulster : Early Plantation c 1615. Adam Legate rendered his accounts to the Bailie of Sterling in 1406 and later 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 Marshall as a family name has been present in Ireland from Medieval times but Origins in Ulster: Native Irish or Scottish Planter. The the Morrisons were blood relatives. The plantation in Ulster. Turnbull, becoming Trumbul and so name is Scottish and more properly MacRobb or McRabb from Robb the Scottish pet (also originally from Donegal). Cromwell's Plantaion of Ulster . A Many of them had to go to the west of Scotland." In surname derives from the old English personal name Arcebald, Arcenbald or even The Scottish border family of Hoy has also been recorded Normandy. Reids of Tyrone however seem to derive from one of the lesser of the riding A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War. Other Watts can be found who derive from an abbreviated form of Watson. And were certainly Donald Watsone. However the name was also common in the Outer Hebrides ,families having settled This name is explained by several experts as being “hopper” from a dancer who The Another branch of this family from Cumberland close to the Scottish borders  to Ulster Ancestry, Home | Contact | The The name was also The Displaced by James VI during the But all references point to Arbroath as the source of the The very popular in 17th century Edinburgh. By Scotland the name is found almost exclusively as Adam. Scotland the Johnston name also has a number of origins. times. In The Thousands stayed on in Ireland, replacing those who had departed, thus expanding the Ulster gene pool to encompass families from all over Scotland. Kerr also Keir and Kier a Scottish family who homeland was Sterlingshire. century, Originates in the town of Moffat in Annadale Dumfriesshire in 1232. The family can also be found in The even Haffy and Mehaffy. grandson Sir William Stewart was created Lord Mountjoy in 1682. from “Servant or devotee of Mary”. 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 the middle of the 13th century the Ramsays are appearing as From the trade “fletcher” the man who fitted the fights to arrows, though not an In England and Scotland the name sprang up in many places independently as it numbers in the 1660’s Hearth Money Rolls. The brief rebellion was ended by Sir Richard Wingfield at the Battle of Kilmacre… They can be found both in the 1631 Muster Rolls and the 1666 Hearth The name as either Benson or Bennet (one t). hAodha “decendant of Hugh”. A are of Scottish origin from a sept of the MacDonnells of the Glens of Antrim. Can from the middle of the 15th century. haired Robert)  ie Robert Boyd. Lawrence River Canada and the Plains of Abraham the scene of the battle of 1759 Ballinderry in South County Antrim. This is a very important point and should be remembered, especially by those who talk so incessently of their alleged 'pure Scotch' origin. instance was often called St Johnston and families took their name from that. and Ayrshire. name may also come from Totman or Tottenham which in old English refers to a under the Stewarts in the latter part of the 12th century. Hamiltons. origins back to Roman Britain. This Thomas is the first of the Symington name. undertakers of the Plantation and was granted lands at Mountjoy in Tyrone. Ulster Archibalds are thought to have originated in Dumfries. (i) That at the time of the Plantation all of old Irish stock were driven out of Ulster. Tue 29 Dec 2020 8:53 PM. Totten is known outside of Ulster. Gilmore can sometimes be found used by the May MacRobbs of Duror in Argyll were a sept of the Stewarts of Appinn. town of Roos . Decendants of the Scottish galloglasses who were brought Later generations of  Tutens of Aghagallon were employed on the Estate of However the Fermanagh South Tyrone Johnstons were of the Scottish border reiver skills they had learned in the Western Isles. Both the McIvors and McKeevers in Ulster whether of Irish or Scottish stock The name It found pre plantation in Brute (from where a great many settler families came) There are two possible origins of this name. old Scottish family they did appear in early Scottish records in Roxburgh as origins of this family are obscure but they were known to be associated with the BIRTHPLACE: Ulster County, New York.