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Ulster-Scots Ulster-Scots Biographies 2 Contents 1 Introduction The ‘founding fathers’ of the Ulster-Scots Sir Hugh Montgomery (1560-1636) 2 Sir James Hamilton (1559-1644) Major landowning families The Colvilles 3 The Stewarts The Blackwoods The Montgomerys Lady Elizabeth Montgomery 4 Hugh Montgomery, 2nd Viscount Sir James Montgomery of Rosemount Lady Jean Alexander/Montgomery William Montgomery of Rosemount Notable individuals and families Patrick Montgomery 5 The Shaws The Coopers James Traill David Boyd The Ross family Bishops and ministers Robert Blair 6 Robert Cunningham Robert Echlin James Hamilton Henry Leslie John Livingstone David McGill John MacLellan 7 Researching your Ulster-Scots roots www.northdowntourism.com www.visitstrangfordlough.co.uk This publication sets out biographies of some of the part. Anyone interested in researching their roots in 3 most prominent individuals in the early Ulster-Scots the region may refer to the short guide included at story of the Ards and north Down. It is not intended to section 7. The guide is also available to download at be a comprehensive record of all those who played a northdowntourism.com and visitstrangfordlough.co.uk Contents Montgomery A2 Estate boundaries McLellan Anderson approximate. Austin Dunlop Kyle Blackwood McDowell Kyle Kennedy Hamilton Wilson McMillin Hamilton Stevenson Murray Aicken A2 Belfast Road Adams Ross Pollock Hamilton Cunningham Nesbit Reynolds Stevenson Stennors Allen Harper Bayly Kennedy HAMILTON Hamilton WatsonBangor to A21 Boyd Montgomery Frazer Gibson Moore Cunningham Cunningham Blair McDowgall Dunlop Ross Montgomery Monett Greenshields Dunbar McMakene Hamilton Logan Semple Waddell Nesbit A48 Galt Moon Kyle Dunlop Montgomery Glen Forsith Montgomery Kelso Lindsay Montgomery Nevin Adair Hamilton A20 to Belfast MONTGOMERY Catherwood A2 Cathcart Boyd Hamilton Cunningham Wyms Mowlane Montgomery Boyle Cooper Johnston Wilson Cunningham Agnew A23 to Carrydu / Belfast Kennedy Montgomery A48 Dickson Harper Shaw Anderson Moore Dunlop Hamilton Cunningham Drummond Allen Orr Turner Montgomery Moore McIlwrath Drisdall Crawford Hunter Keevet Lloyd A21 McClelland McCashin Mathyson McCashin Agnew Maxwell Moore Kennedy B5 Peacock Hamilton Douglas McCashin Crawford Whitechurch McEwen Hamilton Agnew Hamilton Brown Thompson McCartney Speire Montgomery Wallace McKee Millen A21 Hamilton Cunningham A2 Edmonston Cunningham Craig Montgomery HAMILTONBailie HAMILTON Boyd A21 B173 Livingstone Wanchop Hamilton Maxwell A22 A20 Kennedy Boyd Stewart Moore Dunbar Bailie Ardkeen Williamson A2 Nevin Ross Hamilton Harvey Bole SAVAGE B7 Stewart Harvey Hogg Read Wylie Adair Echlin Watson Young Danielston Seton Ardquin Traill Stanehouse Moore Logan Harper Hamilton Howson Echlin McDougal A267 Monypenny 4 Introduction Sir James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Clandeboye (1559-1644) There have been cultural, social and economic links Most of these settlers had well-known lowland Scottish between Scotland and Ulster since time immemorial. surnames, which they brought to Ulster for the first The distinguished historian G.M. Trevelyan has called time. From Anderson to Young, the first recorded the associations between the two regions ‘a constant examples of many Ulster-Scots surnames can be found factor in history’. The story of the Ulster-Scots in the in the early manuscripts and graveyards of the the Ards Ards and north Down begins properly when two men and north Down. from Ayrshire, James Hamilton and Hugh Montgomery, acquired a large portion of the Clandeboye O’Neill The early Scots in Ulster are not mysterious unknowable estates in north-east County Down. figures - there are plenty of good sources available which, when pulled together, paint vivid pictures of Hamilton and Montgomery then advertised their new these people and their achievements. The more is estates to their wider families and other Scots and uncovered about them, the more obvious it becomes in May 1606 the first boatloads of Scottish families that Ulster was not merely a Scottish colony - it was in arrived at Donaghadee, ready to start a new life. First many ways an extension of Scotland. The cultural ties dozens, then hundreds, then thousands poured in. In established in the early 1600s are still evident today and his acclaimed book, The Narrow Ground, A.T.Q. Stewart nowhere more so than in the Ards and north Down. wrote, ‘They created the bridgehead through which the Scots were to come into Ulster for the rest of the century’. 5 of the Ulster-Scots of the The ‘founding fathers’ Shore at Donaghadee - landing place of the first Ulster-Scots Sir Hugh Montgomery, Viscount Ards The Scottish laird who pioneered the settlements in County Down Background in Scotland of the Cunninghams had insulted him, and challenged The Montgomerys were one of the most powerful him to a duel, but Cunningham fled - first to London families in Scotland, with many titles and large estates and then to Holland. dating back to the 1100s. Adam Montgomery was the 5th laird of Braidstane in Ayrshire and his eldest son Montgomery tracked him down to the Inner Court was Hugh Montgomery. Braidstane Castle lay between of the Palace at The Hague, drew his sword and the villages of Dunlop and Beith. Born in 1560, Hugh with a single thrust aimed to kill him. Fortunately was educated at Glasgow College and went to France for Cunningham the sword hit the buckle of his belt where he spent some time at the Royal Court. He then which saved his life. Montgomery, thinking he had moved to Holland and became Captain of Foot of a killed Cunningham, put away his sword but while he Scottish Regiment, under William of Orange-Nassau was leaving the Palace was arrested and imprisoned at (King William III’s great-grandfather), fighting against the Gevangenpoort in the Binnenhof. army of King Philip II of Spain - whose troops included an Englishman called Guy Fawkes! Stationed there was a Scottish soldier - Sergeant Robert Montgomery - who came to visit Hugh in prison and The Cunningham Feud they came up with a jailbreak plan. Robert arrived at When his father died, Hugh returned to Scotland the prison dressed as a wealthy laird with property in to become the 6th laird of Braidstane and married Scotland, to court the daughter of the prison Marshall Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of the laird of Greenock. to gain access to the key to Hugh’s cell. The plan (Braidstane Castle was demolished in the late 1700s, was so successful that within a few days the couple but some of the stones were used to build farmhouses were married in the prison, with Hugh Montgomery which can still be seen today, called ‘Broadstone’.) performing the ceremony according to Scottish law. The wedding guests drank so much wine that His fighting skills came to the fore again when he Hugh, Robert and his new wife were able to slip away became involved in the generations-old feud between unnoticed to a waiting ship which took them to Leith, the Montgomerys and the Cunninghams (led by the near Edinburgh. Earl of Glencairn). Hugh Montgomery claimed that one 6 of the Ulster-Scots of the The ‘founding The ‘founding fathers’ Comber Parish Church - one of six built or restored by Hugh Montgomery The Return to Scotland Life In Ulster Hugh’s return to Scotland saw him receive a severe Hugh Montgomery was knighted in April 1605 and reprimand from King James VI, but thanks to his went on to lead a massive migration from south-west strong relationship with the King and the support of Scotland into the Ards and north Down. He first settled his influential brother George Montgomery, Hugh was at Donaghadee where he built a ‘low stone walled soon back in favour. George had left Scotland as a youth house’, but soon moved to Newtownards where he and had become Dean of Norwich in 1602, a privileged restored the old Priory and converted an adjacent position which he used to gather information about building into his family home, ‘Newtown House’. By English politics which he then passed back to the court 1610 he could muster 1000 able fighting men. of King James VI in Scotland. So Hugh Montgomery also had considerable influence with King James and In 1611 it was reported that ‘Sir Hugh Montgomery, when Queen Elizabeth 1 died in the spring of 1603 Knight, hath repayred part of the abbey of Newtone he accompanied him to London for his coronation for his owne dwelling, and made a good towne of a ceremony. hundred houses or there aboutes, all peopled with Scottes.’ The market cross in Newtownards is the The Con O’Neill estate came to Hugh’s attention second cross on the site, the first having been built when O’Neill’s wife offered him half of their lands - if under Montgomery’s direction as a replica of the market Hugh could spring Con from jail in Carrickfergus and cross in Edinburgh. secure a Royal Pardon from the new King. In a re- run of the plan Hugh had used in Holland, Thomas Settlements: Hugh Montgomery’s tenants established Montgomery, a neighbour of Hugh’s, sprang Con from Donaghadee, Newtownards, Greyabbey and much of prison and brought him to Braidstane where their deal Comber, as well as rural townlands surrounding these was finalised. En route to London, to gain the Royal towns and villages. pardon and approval of the land deal, James Hamilton intervened and secured a third of the land for himself - Churches: Montgomery built or restored six churches perhaps as payment for favours owed. The negotiations (Donaghadee, Greyabbey, Comber, Kilmore and led to George Montgomery being appointed Bishop Newtownards in County Down and Portpatrick in of Derry, Raphoe and Clogher, and from Spring 1607 Scotland) and gave each three gifts: a bell, a 1603 he brought lowland Scottish settlers into west Ulster - Geneva Bible and a 1603 Common Prayer book, each several months before the ‘Flight of the Earls’.
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