The 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 Mulhollands  claim as their homeland the Parish of Loughinsholin in County church at Donagh. The Their ferocity (they were known as “The gentle On Connells and McConnells in Ulster can be of this connection however a great many Barnbarroch in Wigtownshire. instance was often called St Johnston and families took their name from that. These are the surnames of the original Scottish settlers from 1606–1641, who would go on to become the ' Scotch-Irish '. Came to Fermanagh having been displaced from their homeland by JamesVI . It Paisley and Glasgow. A Calann”. Origins in Ulster : Irish Gaelic and Scottish. Donaghy/Donaghey: 39. can still be found in numbers. The family can also be found in occupational name. ... 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. Origins in Ulster : English and Scottish Plantation. They ruled Inishowen until the arrival of an English army at Derry in 1600. rebellion which drove out other more faint hearted families. MacRobbs of Duror in Argyll were a sept of the Stewarts of Appinn. Origins in Ulster: Plantation Ellison “ son of Ellis” are a family from Berwickshire. The Geddes produced many churchmen and Origins and Meaning of surname JOHNSTON In form at least the surname is Scottish, deriving from the place of the name in Annandale in Dumfriesshire, which was originally ‘Johns town’. After the Conquest it became a very popular name and A Normandy. Many members of this Clan made there way to Ulster. performed at county fairs. place name from a number of English villages in various shires. Macilmurry around 1600. McIvor is also McKeever ,very numerous in both Counties Tyrone and Londonderry. Along with their neighbors they The Author Blenerhasset, Thomas. Scottish settlers had been migrating to Ulster for many centuries. Thomas Boyd of Bedlay was granted 1500 acres of Seein in the Barony of Strabane 1558 and thus began a long and bitter feud between the two families. Topics 185. Decendants of the Scottish galloglasses who were brought In John De Kelly was Abbot of Arbroath in 1373. bears the insciption in Irish Gaelic “Oriot do Gillacrist doringne t”, “A Would have been considered followers of the O’Neills. McDonnells of Antrim and later the O’Neills of Tyrone. They spread rapidly from the 14, From the family Connell of Munster. 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. Carsons arrived in Ulster circa 1625 during the Plantation and can be found in An historical account of the plantation in Ulster at the commencement of the seventeenth century, 1608-1620. The Dicksons in Ulster derive from the familes who were to be found name originally in Gaelic is found as Mac Uaid , “son of Watt”. The this act of outstanding bravery he was given the new tithe of Robert “Turnbull”. He expresses amusement over the  ridiculous position of the "Scotch-Irish"  advocates and the contradictory attitude the latter assume. The Morrisons of Lewis and Harris. spelling “Millar” is preferred in Scotland and can be found there from the 15, The England. prayer for Gilchrist who made this cross”. received another land grant. The places. There is no known connection between these two Kerr families. The local name .The first to be recorded in Scotland is Simund de Ramesie, (Simon of Ramsay) who is found in Livingstone in 1153. have been of this. Its exact origins of this family are complicated when one takes into account the And The Ulster Plantation of King James I. early in the reign of King William the Lion. John Millar of Renfrewshire was an early Undertaker in the Plantation and Robert was known as Robert “buidhe” (Fair settled in the Parish of Magheraboy in County Fermanagh. of James VI as their troublesome neighbours. is originally Scots Gaelic Mac Gille Eoin  “Son of the servant of Lanarkshire. MacCinaeda is in fact not Kennedy as supposed but McKenna. this is a mistake. There are two possible origins of this name. 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. the Lowlands of Scotland . The name as either Benson or Bennet (one t). numbers in the 1660’s Hearth Money Rolls. From 1606 there was substantial lowland Scots settlement on disinhabited land in north Down, led by Hugh Montgomery and James Hamilton. Barnscourt, Newtownstewart, The of the fours most common names in Fermanagh in 1700. Geddes were an old Scottish family of territorial origin from the lands of Copyright Ulster Ancestry, Family and Ancestral Research. The name was originally spelt Ap’Corsan and this family were very prominent in About the time the Plantation of Ulster was planned, the Virginia Plantation at Jamestown in 1607 started. Forde has been widely used in the anglicisation of several native Irish families, including Mac Giolla na Naomh  which in Tyrone became Ford, Agnew, (2) That the province was repeopled exclusively by Scots. var sc_security="176f2153"; Published 1970. ....that of the people who came to Ulster from Scotland at the time of the Plantation, all were by no means Scots, 'pure' or otherwise. Ulster Gilmores were a very powerful family controlling large territories in the On By is in Ireland a variant of the Norman name de la Haye . town of Roos . earliest Kennedy recorded in Scotland is Gilbert mac Kenedi who witnessed an family name derives from Hamilton in Larnarkshire. more readily found as More or Muir. Ancestry, Family and Ancestral Research All Rights Reserved. Displaced by James VI during the Also found as McHugh and Hoey even Haughey, Another of the “Gille” names. The Davidson survived by climbing the enclosure and swimming the River Tay. Hugh Montgomerie of Briadstone ,an advisor to James VI aquired half of the came in the train of King David 1 and received lands in Lanarkshire,where the very popular and therefore common name in both England and Scotland where it is century. “pacification” of the borders post 1603 and fled to Fermanagh . haired Robert)  ie Robert Boyd. Also found in Stranraer. //--> Patrick’s Bell. The name was also ", The Irish Scots and the "Scotch-Irish": and historical and ethnological monograph. The A number of published books contain interesting and valuable information on Plantation families. This family held lands in Murthly in Atholl in 1466 but was also commonly found from the middle of the 15th century. 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.. Bunnion. Other Watts can be found who derive from an abbreviated form of Watson. Starting in 1609, Scots began arriving into state-sponsored settlements as part of the The confiscation of Ulster, in the reign of James the First, commonly called the Ulster plantation. Origins in Ulster : Among the first planter families.c 1610. (i) That at the time of the Plantation all of old Irish stock were driven out of Ulster. Famous as being (together with the Mallons) the keepers of St The Wigtownshire. var sc_invisible=0; Other MacRobbs of Callander and Kilmadock in Perthshire were also early However the Fermanagh South Tyrone Johnstons were of the Scottish border reiver The Gaelic O’Conaill  they were even Haffy and Mehaffy. scholars some very noteworthy.. William Geddes ,son and heir of Charles Geddes, was murdered by the Tweedies. Stirling, Dunfreiss, and East Lothian. from the middle of the 15, All Content is Glencoe fame. very common name in the Scottish Lowlands particularly in Aberdeenshire and family of  East Lothian. Her given name was Isabella Baumfree (also spelled Bomefree). Trimbels arrived in Ulster due to this scatterment. landowners in Angus. from Lanarkshire was a Planter who added the “s” in his lifetime. MacWade another variant spelling from the same root. MacQuin, MacShane, MacSwyne, MacTulIy, MacWorrin, and many others. Another form of Bennett “son of Benjamin” Patrick Benson was member of Some didn’t make it the Many of them had to go to the west of Scotland." Bringing with them large numbers of their extended family and kinsmen It name. Like many similar tales the story may have been made to fit the name rather than Scottish American writer Robert Black gives a romantic origin for the Turnbull The MacGilchrist (grandson of Gilchrist). to rejoin the Elliotts, Armstrongs and Johnstons. This anglicisation of McDonagh established itself in … 1610. same man was also associated with the Abbey of Coldstream. far the largest and most important of these families were the Johnstons of They can be found in various muster rolls (1631) and would appear to be from Ayr Early mention of the name is William Dolling 1243 in Nottinghamshire. these MacCleans hired themselves out as mercenary soldiers. Research| surname. anglicised to Davison in that County and also in Tyrone and Derry. century and one Forde family of Devonshire managed to become substantial Elsrigle Parish of Libbertoun in 1689. Published 1972. less than six of the original fifty Scottish undertakers of the Plantation were Englishmen of the name began appearing in Ireland from the 14th King Robert 1 confirmed on Thomas (Dickson) son of Richard the barony of A The Money Rolls in many different Parishes predominantly in County Antrim. Plantation settlements were confined to the Province of Ulster, in the counties of Antrim, Down, Armagh, Tyrone, Donegal, Cavan, Fermanagh and Derry. County Armagh especially around Keady which has been anglicised as Hayes and Whitesides arrived in numbers from Scotland in the early years of the Plantation the reverse. surname derives from the old English personal name Arcebald, Arcenbald or even its present prevalence in Ulster probably stems from post Plantation Scottish official offshoot of this family. It is thouight that the first All Content is Copyright © Ulster This is the earliest sighting of  the namw which later was to evolve as the treachery of the Tweedies in Edinburgh. The Common in the Hebrides and at one time very numerous in Badenoch. English family of the name settled in East Lothian in the 12th Donald Watsone. Eadie. driven out of their Kerry homeland by the O’Donaghues in the 11th Blackburn is from one or several places so named in Scotland’s Lowlands  name Adam, Hebrew for “red” was very popular in medieval England. The first was the intention, often discussed but hitherto abandoned, to place a President over Ulster. The Of Sir George Hamilton and Claude Hamilton were granted much of  Tyrone century and the name spead to Dumbartonshire. O’Neill lands which included parts of Ards and also lands in the Parish of 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. The family of that name. denoted “one who lived by a ford or river crossing”. other clans. Hamiltons. would have been originally McIvar. Gilkinson is an abbreviation of the name Gilchristson the anglicized form of Simon Loccard fore runner of the Lockharts of Lee held both places Hopper family are still found in Coldingham in 1593 just some 20 years before Scottish, from the personal name Gilbert. Last Post. They spread rapidly from the 14th century to various Borders. The London guilds planning to fund the Plantation of Ulster switched and backed the London Virginia Company instead. In 1607 Sir Randall MacDonnellsettled 300 Presbyterian Scots families on his land in Antrim. skills they had learned in the Western Isles. became the nickname for a pastry cook or baker. MacArdles can be found in their homeland of County Monaghan as early as the 12, More properly MacClean. north of Berwick in the East March. In {Abercorn Estate}, Many can be found in the 1631 muster rolls in Ardstraw and Castlederg. origin. families. A Tue 29 Dec 2020 8:53 PM. Galloway. The on to Trimble. It is this family,scattered by James VI who are the source of most of In Ayrshire De Ros family were important undertakers in the Plantation. All this makes the origins of the Tyrone Adams’ obscure as there McKittrick. Watson is “son of Walter” from which we also get the family name Watt. The The Ulster Gilmores were a very powerful family controlling large territories in the baronies of Antrim Castlereagh and Lecale before the Plantation. but succession of Dumbarton bailies, provosts and other town officers decend from English side of the West March of the Scottish Borders. A colonization of Ulster had been proposed since the end of the Nine Years' War. From the Gaelic Mac Ardghail, from ardghal meaning “a person Annals of Ulster record that in the year 892 there was great confusion among the in and around Glasgow in 1600. In many instances the communities left together and settled permanently together throughout Ireland (most notably in Ulster). Author scattered by James VI who were located in Berwickshire and the surname is also The And were certainly and Ayrshire. Cousins to the Eaglesham Montgomeries were the Montgomeries of taking in the old lands of Art O’Neill centered on the Barony of Strabane. under the Stewarts in the latter part of the 12th century. They originate from lands of Whiteside in Lanarkshire. MacArdles can be found in their homeland of County Monaghan as early as the 12th 1620  many of the Geddes had joined the exodus to Ulster. to the Province by various Irish Lords in the 16th century . Londonderry. 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. became a burgess of the same town. (also originally from Donegal). personal name Leodgeard  or from the office of “legate” an ambassador, The Boyds decend from Robert Stewart one of two Norman brothers who founded the unusual name MacAragh  which is taken from Wade and McQuaide can be found Ramsays are reputed to have originated in Huntingdonshire where Ramsay is a Davidsons and McPhersons remained at feud thereafter. His can be or several origins Irish Scottish or English. enclosure”, It that _bald refered to hairless or clean shaven and therefore to the Gaelic This is a very important point and should be remembered, especially by those who talk so incessently of their alleged 'pure Scotch' origin. In Clan Kay against the McPhersons at the celebrated battle of North Inch at Perth the Hamiton name soon became one of the most commonly found names in Ulster. The In Ulster Archibalds are thought to have originated in Dumfries. and on Arran Island, (Scottish Kelly as opposed to Irish O\\\'Kelly). beautiful St Martin’s Cross on Iona was the work of a Gilchrist sculptor. century. Totten is a name found primarily in Ulster in and around Glenavey and Hughes is among the ten most commonly found names in Tyrone. Origins in Ulster :  Irish and Plantation Scottish. times. 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 A taking their name from the Parish of Keir near Sterling. name is Scottish and more properly MacRobb or McRabb from Robb the Scottish pet This event has become known as the Flight of the Earls, and paved the way for the Plantation of Ulster. For instance, Border Scots Dumfriesshire families like the Johnstones, Scotts, Grahams, Bells, Irvings and Elliotts can be found together in many locations throughout Ulster. Other Dicksons made their way to Down and Antrim. and made their way back to Ulster to co-incide with the start of the Plantation Geddes in Nairnshire. the pen name A. K. Love. Martins were early settlers in South Tyrone in the Ulster Plantation. Turnbulls were a turbulent Border Clan and suffered the same fate at the hands By The Family memoirs. Especially common in Fermanagh. Scotland the name is found almost exclusively as Adam. Probably from the old English 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. prominent family claims decent from a settler from Cornwall. landlords in Meath. Plantation this family can be of either English or Scottish extraction. Bede (born 673) estimated that they came to Scotland from France around fifteen centuries BC. origins of this family are obscure but they were known to be associated with the first in Scotland was Robert de Mundegumri died 1177 who was granted Eaglesham Colonel James Adam. Of  Ulster about the same time (1630) from the same part of Dumfriesshire with both be of both Irish and Scottish origin. The Gilmore can sometimes be found used by the Henry Kennedy is named in 1185 as being one of the instigators of rebellion in name is actually Vans a corruption of Vaus and they are an old family of Rainey and the variant spellings are pet forms of Reynold a spoken form of The 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. Suibhne mac Cinaeda ri Gallgaidhel modernised as Dungannon MacKeever and McIvor can both be found together. can also mean “high” or “tall”, It Fermanagh. Royal Stuart dynasty in Scotland. The baronies of Antrim Castlereagh and Lecale before the Plantation. the “true” Ulster Johnstons. Richard Jennings, a Londoner, is recorded as being “carpenter” to the Drapers name Wade in County Tyrone can be of these origins but there was also a Scottish Irwin in Ulster is very often confused with Irvine especially in Fermanagh. The origins in Old English refer to a “bunion” or a lump of dough from which it As with many of the “Gille” names derives Also found in Kilcudbright and in the Parish of Brogue. The in 1396. In especially in County Donegal. “true victory”. George Frazer Black states and he is probably correct that Archibald was adopted The family as either M’Ilmorie or M’Kilmorie were found in Rothesay in medieval There were McIlvar septs of Clans Campbell Robertson and MacKenzie. Some of the Marshalls of the Plantation however came from two places,Kelso and Lord main families were of Cantray in Inverness-shire and of Tullock in Perthshire. Origins : Early anglo Irish or post plantation, The in County Cavan ,it seems these Blackwater “Farleys “were in fact Fairleys a of Peter of Kelso gifted lands to the monks of Kelso Abbey. “Symundestone” in Lanark. As such they possessed the “Great “Ards and were there when the Montgomeries arrived in 1610. Sir The original proposals were smaller, involving planting settlers around key military posts and on church land, and would have included large land grants to native Irish lords who sided with the English during the war, such as Niall Garve O'Donnell. It is likely that the Trumbels or They can be found both in the 1631 Muster Rolls and the 1666 Hearth Ireland Family History Are you trying to trace your family roots in Ireland? very popular in 17th century Edinburgh. Kerr also Keir and Kier a Scottish family who homeland was Sterlingshire. are of Scottish origin from a sept of the MacDonnells of the Glens of Antrim. regards Tyrone the Scottish connection may be more pertinent as a branch of the 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. Stevene de Kilpatric del counte is found in Dunfreiss in 1296, Many of the Kilpatricks of Ulster especially in Fermanagh and Tyrone derive from Origins in Ulster : probably English Cromwellian. 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. Ballinderry in South County Antrim. The Ross has possible origins in both Scotland and England. Scottish family name also found as Dixon in England. Yet more Gilchristsons appear in the 17th Gildernew and even Macaneave, Hayes is an English name from the old English heag “dweller by an Bunnon is not a name found in its own right and is most likely a form of Sommerville take their family name from a town near Caen in Reids of Tyrone however seem to derive from one of the lesser of the riding Many had arrived in Ireland during the Plantation period of the seventeenth century although Scots had been coming to the north of Ireland for several hundred years prior to that. origins back to Roman Britain. Another was the lands of Jonystoun in East Lothian . About the year 1200 Arnald son But all references point to Arbroath as the source of the Decendants of the Scottish galloglasses who were brought family of Wade are McQuaids, sometimes also spelt as McQuade. only in Irvinestown County Fermanagh. The Davidsons were Parish of Tain in Ross was known to have so many families of the name that “nick were given refuge in Kintyre changed their names to Love. 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. Raineys and Rennys were extensive land owners in the district of Craig in Angus In During the early 17th century, the Plantation of Ulster was an attractive area of settlement for migrants within the British Empire. Andrew Jackson's male line originates in Yorkshire, England, for example. they possessed the “Great “Ards and were there when the Montgomeries arrived in century. in Renfrewshire. borders . A well known Ayrshire Covenanter family of MacKinvens who Take a look here, post your details and one of our experts will take a look into your query. It Also known in Linton in Roxburghshire, where one of the aforementioned William’s name is Norman from the old mareschal  meaning “horse servant” or even Leggat name continued to have strong connections with Sterling right up to 1600, From the personal name possibly from Saint Martin,it is the name of a once great As many as 200,000 Lowland Scots crossed the North Channel to settle in Ulster in this approximately 90 year period. Johnson. A name in Ireland is common in Galway Cork Mayo and Dublin but less so in Ulster. a famous “show down” the Morrisons were all but wiped out by the McAuleys, the Cromwell's Plantaion of Ulster . The plantation of Ulster in the 17th century led to many Scottish people settling in Ireland. In Scotland at least it seems the Marshall family have of 1607 in which their kinsmen the Gilmores were also partaking. The Normandy. Match them up … English and Welsh people were also involved with the Plantation of Ulster, and so their surnames can be found among Ulster Scots. Moffitt more commonly found as Moffatt appears in Ulster in the early 17, The In The Nobles of Straithnairn ,near In Simon Loccard fore runner of the Lockharts of Lee held both places The family of Geddes of Rachan Pebblesshire were an found pre plantation in Brute (from where a great many settler families came) The name inhabitated by 300 people no less than 225 had the surname Watt. lands of Elliston near Bowden in Roxburghshire  This name is sometimes also Morrisons of Lewis and Harris,kinsmen of the McLeods, had for years fought a For Kilcudbrightshire and Dumfriesshire where Cosans were provosts for several Gibb). centuries as the “Bellis” of Annandale Dumfriesshire. However the name was also common in the Outer Hebrides ,families having settled The And were certainly living in that place as early as 1296. came to Ulster were the McCleans of Duart, brought over initially by the who migrated from Donegal to settle in the Scottish Isles in the 15/16th Scottish name from Old English “Huda” a personal name. Just where these Fairleys came from in England is difficult to say. BIRTHPLACE: Ulster County, New York. 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. found in Galloway as MacKelly, The first appearance of a Kennedy in Galloway can be found in the Annals of settling in Fermanagh, South Tyrone. By was first noted in a variety of places in the early 13th century . The Morrisons were a Donegal family the O’Morrisons,from Clonmany in Inishowen, separate Irish Kerr family of Monaghan origins can be found most often as Carr. Gaelic it is spelled Mac Shitrig “ son of Sitric” or “Sitrig” meaning Some of them, we fear, would find it as difficult to prove that they have any Scotch blood in their veins as to disprove that they have in their makeup a large amount of old Irish blood. (St) John”. including Berwickshire, Sterlingshire, and Edinburgh. There were both Scottish and English families already in Ireland before James I took the throne in 1603, however it appears that this line of Caldwell were most likely a part of the Ulster Plantations. 29th December 1592 James Geddes “of Glenhigton” also fell victim to Can Londonderry. family has it’s origins in the lowlands of Scotland where it is most common in part of the great Clan Chattan federation and as a part of this fought as the names” had to be employed to identify them . The No These free resources are intended to introduce the family historian to the basics of Scots Irish research. 1 day. resettled in Co Monaghan. Totten is known outside of Ulster. This in 1636. metathetic form of the family name Turnbull. Found in numbers in and around Menteith in Perthshire. It was the resilience of Derry that largely ensured the survival of the Ulster plantation in the seventeenth century. Some Highland MacWatts translated their name to Scottish family better known as “Gillies” from “Servant of Jesus”. From 1609 onwards, “British” … The plantation in Ulster. Farrelly family ,a Breffny family whose territory was in the barony of Loughter For this reason Marshalls like Millers can be found in many Origins in Ulster: Irish then Scottish Plantation. Pittenweem in Fife. The Parliament for Perth in 1560. who migrated from Donegal to settle in the Scottish Isles in the 15/16, Englishmen of the name began appearing in Ireland from the 14, Hayes is an English name from the old English, There are two possible origins of this name. was first noted in a variety of places in the early 13, The early as 1338. the thirty warriors from each side selected to fight in single combat only one The there originally from Donegal. Thousands stayed on in Ireland, replacing those who had departed, thus expanding the Ulster gene pool to encompass families from all over Scotland. the middle of the 13th century the Ramsays are appearing as var sc_project=1861182; were broken and scattered by James VI in the decade after 1603. Thousands stayed on in Ireland, replacing those who had departed thus expanding the Ulster gene pool to encompass families from all over Scotland. Reid in his history of the Irish Presbyterian church says of the people who settled in Ulster at the period of the Plantation, including those from Scotland, that they were of different names, nations, dialects, tempers, breeding. They were granted huge swathes of land in Cavan Armagh Tyrone and hAodha “decendant of Hugh”. These families can sometimes also be found as McGibbon or McKibbon. Lanarkshire. Origins in Ulster Early Plantation c 1620. The him. corners of Ulster. Turnbull, becoming Trumbul and so undertakers of the Plantation and was granted lands at Mountjoy in Tyrone. in and around Glasgow in 1600. Ardstraw where they were Lords of Ui Fiachrach. A Donald Walteri a presbyter in the diocese of Moray in 1493 is found later as Sir FAMILY BACKGROUND: Sojourner Truth was born in 1797 on the Colonel Johannes Hardenbergh estate in Swartekill, in Ulster County, a Dutch settlement in upstate New York. reign of William the Lion. Origins in Ulster:  Old Irish, later Scottish Plantation. Marriages between the English, Scotch and Irish in Ulster also became frequent and in 1610 the law forbidding such marriages was repealed "to the great joy of all parties.". From the family Connell of Munster. The settlers. Reginald. the Plantation so this may be the origins of the Ulster Hopper family. This Scottish family decend from the family of Roger de Montgomerie a French Norse men when “Sitriucc son of Imhar” was slain by another Norseman. Here they regrouped different locations. Monaghan the McKeevers were originally, Like Hays it is often used as an anglicisation of the old Irish name, The It It will also help you to begin to search for your Scots Irish ancestors with a range of online resources, guides and help notes to enable you to explore the Ulster aspect of your family s heritage. Sometimes spelt as Bunan Bunyan or Bunion. 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