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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 Arkles Futhie McAulay Rae Arnett Fyieff McAuld Ralston Austin Gaate McBurney Ramsay Bailie Galbraith McCamuel Rankin Barbour Galt The Scots inUlster McCartney Read Barkley Gamble The First Scottish Migrations to ,1606–1641 McCashin Redgate Barr Gemmil McCassick Reid Barry Gibb McCausland Richardson Bauld Gibson McCawley Ritchie Bell Gillaspie BALFOUR (BURLEY) McClairne Robb Black McCreaghan Robert STEWART (AUBIGNY) Blackwood Glass URNAME AP HOME McCrery Robin Blair Glen OURCES S M STEWART (LENNOX) McCullough Robinson S : Boyd Glye The information on this map was compiled from a McDonnell Robson number of sources including George Hill, An Historical DOUGLAS Boyle Gordon Account of the (1877), David HAMILTON () HAMILTON McDougall Rodgers Stewart, The Scots in Ulster (1954), Michael Perceval McDowell Roger Bozwell Graham Maxwell, The Scottish migration to Ulster in the reign Brackley Granger of James I (1973), denization and naturalisation McErdy Rose Brisbane Granton records, Ulster inquisitions and various other records. McEvene Rudd Brown Gray McEwen Russell Bruce Greenshields ATLANTIC McFarland Sare Bryce Greer Shading reflects level of migration McGee Saunderson OCEAN N from to Ulster Buchanan Grindall O R McGern Savage Burke Gryme T STEWART (OCHILTREE) McGowan Sawer Burne Grynney 4 H McIlchany Sayne STEWART Ballycastle McSWEENEY C 2 H STEWART McCLELLAND MACDONNELL 3 Ballymoney A Burns Haldane KNOX Londonderry McIlmurry Scott N Buthill Hall CUNNINGHAM McIlveyne Semple Cahoon Hamill STEWART Antrim N SCOTLAND McIlwrath Seton KNOX HAMILTON Londonderry ADAIR SHAW Calte Hamilton LESLIE E McKaudy Sharpe Calwell Harne HAMILTON COLVILLE AGNEW L McKay Shaw HAMILTON McCLELLAND EDMONSTONE Campbell Harper MURRAY HAMILTON McKearne Shirloe D Carcott Harvey DRUMMONDULSTER5 N McKee Simpson Carlile Hatrick RICHARDSON Bangor Donaghadee A McKernan Skingeor Tyrone STEWART BelfastHAMILTON L Carmichael Heigate McKilmun Smelley STEWART G Carothers Henderson 1 MONTGOMERY McKinney Smellham HUME ERSKINE HAMILTON Carr Hendrie O'NEILL N McKittrick Smith DUNBAR STEWART HAMILTON E Carslaw Hendry ACHESON 6 McKym Smyth Carson Henrison HAMILTON Down McLellan Somervell Cathcart Henry BALFOUR McLintagh Spence Monaghan Armagh PRINCIPAL Catherwood Hepburn CREIGHTON SCOTTISH McLoghery Spier LANDLORD O'NEILL Cawder Highgate SCOTTISH LANDLORD Monaghan McLornan Spottiswood Chambers Hilton IN ULSTER CRAIG O'REILLY McMakene Stanehouse IRISH LANDLORD IN ULSTER Clapham Hogg ACHESON HAMILTON McMath Stanton HAMILTON Clendinning Holmes BAILIE McMillin Steele Cloggie Honis McNaughton Stephenson Coch Hood McNeill Stevenson Colquhoun Hope McNilly Stevin

Colville Howell McPhedrish Stewart Cooper Howie McVegany Strawbridge Cowper Howson A total of 59L Scottishandowners landowners (or undertakers as they were known) MManyinister Scottish ministers cames to Ulster in the Most of the people whoSettlers came to Ulster in The government wanted theL settlersife to live together in villages on Means Sturgeon received lands in the Plantation of Ulster. Most were minor lairds, early 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 Craig Hudgsone though others, such as Ludovic Stewart, Duke of Lennox, and James role in religious life in the . Some sirs, but ordinary folk who were hoping for settlers would be safer if they lived close to each other. However, in Meen Sutherland 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 Crawford Huggin positions in the Scottish government. Many of the original grantees returning to Scotland, while others spent mainly came from places such as , preferred to live on their farms rather than in a village. They did not Melvin Symington Creighton Hunter sold out early on. Some never even made it as far as . 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 Mikell Symonson 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. Creire Hutchine introduced the required number of settlers to their estates. Brief (left) brother of Sir Hugh Montgomery, who include Crawford, Cunningham, Hamilton Millar Syne outlines of the activities of two undertakers are given below. was bishop of the dioceses of Clogher, and Montgomery. Other settlers came One of the big changes brought about by the Plantation was the Crosby Johnson and Raphoe, all at the same time. from the Borders area of south-east Scotland including the Armstrongs, establishment of towns. In Tyrone the Earl of Abercorn Miller Tate Cunningham Johnston 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 Mitchell Taylor Hamilton of Paisley, near . In 1610 he and two of his older The next after Montgomery was Andrew Knox. He two men who lived quite close to each other near Strabane. wealthy enough to establish a town and so founded a village on their Cuthbertson Julius 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 the Acheson family founded a Moffatt Tees received grants of land in Strabane in north-west County . Knox converted a former monastery in , Hugh Hamilton of Lisdivin was from Priestfield in Blantyre near Glasgow. village that was later to become . Danielston Karns Tyrone. Right from the start Sir George proved to be an energetic , to his own private house. He died in 1633 and was In the early stages of the Plantation, he, together with his brother Molsed Thomas Davidson Keeland 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. In Those granted land were required to build a fortification on their Moncrieg Thompson 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 of Lisdivin by the Earl of Abercorn. lands. The simplest type of fortress was known as a ‘bawn’ (from the Davyson Kelso 1621 James Spottiswood became . 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 Monett Thomson Sir Robert McClelland of Bombie was born about 1592 in cathedral and tried to establish a town at Clogher. of good pepper, four pounds of loaf sugar and a box of marmalade. walls and was usually square or rectangular. The most important of Deans Kennedy Kirkcudbright in south-west Scotland. He was still a teenager when the new landlords were Moneypenny Todd Deinbone Kernes he was appointed the chief undertaker Dozens of Scottish ministers served in Ultimately of Italian origin, the Algeo family expected to build a Montgomery Trail in the barony of and in Ulster in the early seventeenth century. lived in Paisley near Glasgow. Robert Algeo strong castle as well Demstar Kilpatrick 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 Moon Trane Dewar Kinnear were mainly mountainous and Sir Robert 1622 he was described as ‘an eloquent years of the Plantation and helped Sir George settlers needed places Moore Trench showed little interest in developing scholar and good preacher of God’s Word’. Hamilton of Greenlaw to manage his estates. to gather for public Dick Knox 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 Moorhead Trimble abandon his interest in Ulster, however, John Livingstone (right) of Killinchy were George’s estates for government officials they repaired an Dickson Kuming for within a couple of years he was ministers with Presbyterian convictions. existing church and Morgan Tullis investigating the Plantation. Robert Algeo Doninge Kyd leasing two estates in County For a time they were tolerated within the on other occasions Londonderry (right) and had introduced , but in the 1630s were was a Catholic, making him different from they built a completely Morne Udney Dougal Kyle over 200 settlers to these lands. forced out by less sympathetic bishops. most of the Scots coming to Ulster. new church. Morrison Valentine Douglas Laderdeill Morrow Vance

Dowling Lainge Presbyterian Morton Waddell Drum Lauder The early Scottish Mowlane Walker Drummond Lawes settlements and ministers in Ulster Muntreeth Wallace Antrim Antrim Dunbar Lawson Plantation MacDonnells around 1660 Murdogh Walshe Dunlop Laycock In the early seventeenth century thousands In the early seventeenth century a number Londonderry Murduff Walson of Scots moved to Ulster. Many of these men Plantation of Ulster of ministers with Presbyterian convictions Donegal Dunne Leckey came as part of the Plantation of Ulster, an ( Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, moved to Ulster from Scotland and were Mure Wanchop Dunsayer Leech official settlement affecting six counties – Fermanagh, Londonderry, and Tyrone) particularly active in counties Antrim and Murray Wardlaw Armagh, Cavan, Donegal, Fermanagh, Down. In 1642 at Carrickfergus the first Tyrone Dykes Leitch Londonderry and Tyrone. Others moved to Hamilton Irish presbytery was established and in Musgrave Watson Echlin Leslie Ulster as part of the privately sponsored & Montgomery the following decades the Presbyterian Nelson Weir Edmonston Lindsay settlements of Sir Hugh Montgomery and Settlement Church in Ireland began to emerge as a Nesbit Welsh Sir James Hamilton in north-east denomination, distinct from the Church of Fermanagh Armagh Down Edwards Livingstone or to north Antrim under Sir Randal McDonnell Ireland. This map shows the location of Nevin Wigton Ekyn Lockhard (later Earl of Antrim). Though Sir Randal was Presbyterian ministers in Ulster around 1660. Newburgh Wilkie a Catholic Scot from the Highlands, he In 1661 each of these men was expelled from Monaghan Elliott Lodge encouraged Lowland Protestant Scots to become his church for refusing to accept the episcopalian Niven Williamson Ellis Logan farmers on his vast 333,000 acre estate. government of the Church of Ireland. Cavan Norris Wilson Elpinstone Logy Witherspoon English Lother Paddin Wood Erving Love Parke Woolson Ewart Luke CAN’T FIND YOUR FAMILY NAME HERE? VISIT: Parker Wright Fenton Lutfoot Paton Wylie Ferguson Lynn Patoun Wyms Ferly Lyon www.ancestryireland.com/scotsinulster Patterson Young 1600 1700 1800 ULSTER 1603: 1606: 1610: 1641: 1689: 1690: 1718: 1778: 1781–82: 1787: 1791: 1798: 1800: Hamilton and Montgomery Plantation of Ulster Outbreak of rebellion Large-scale migration of Catholic and Protestant Robert Burns’ poems Society of United United Irishmen Act of Union ends Nine Years’ War settlements in County Down gets underway Ulster-Scots to America begins formed Dissenters Relief Acts published in Irishmen formed Rebellion passed SCOTLAND 1603: 1638: 1643: 1638 -1688: 1698: 1707: 1723: 1745: 1747: 1759: 1786: 1797: King James VI of Scotland becomes Scotland’s National Solemn League The “Killing Times” The attempted Darien The Act of Union of John Witherspoon born Jacobite John Paul Robert Burns born Robert Burns’ poems United Scotsmen King James I of England and Ireland Covenant and Covenant settlement of Panama England and Scotland Rebellion Jones born first published Rebellion

1 2 3 4 5 6 Monea Castle [ ] Rathmullan Church [ COUNTY DONEGAL] Derry’s Walls [ ] [ ] Springhill [ COUNTY LONDONDERRY] Castle [ COUNTY DOWN] Built by Malcolm Hamilton, a Scottish minister, who later became the In the early seventeenth century Andrew Knox, bishop of Raphoe, converted Begun in 1613 in the same year that the town of Derry was renamed Londonderry, Built over a lengthy period, the man who left his mark on it more than any other Home to the Lenox-Conyngham family for more than 250 years. It was built in Built by Sir James Hamilton in the early 1610s. In 1614 it was described as Archbishop of Cashel. Monea is generally regarded as the finest surviving part of the former monastic buildings in Rathmullan to a private house. the walls were completed in 1618. Today the walls survive almost intact and are was Sir Randal MacDonnell who became the 1st Earl of Antrim. He built an the 1690s by William Conyngham in a style that represented a break from the ‘ane vere strong castle, the lyk is not in the northe’. In 1666 a second tower Plantation castle and has many Scottish architectural features. He left his mark on the building through the corbelled corner turrets, the the most important surviving 17th-century fortifications in the . English-style manor house within the walls as well as other important additions. defensive buildings of the past. Today it is managed by the National Trust and was added to give the front of the castle a more symmetrical appearance. tall chimneys and the doorway with its carved stone frame. is one of the most popular homes in open to the public.