UHF Surnames Map FINAL AW 13/10/08 10:15 Page 1 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 Ulster,1606–1641 McCashin Redgate Barr Gemmil McCassick Reid Barry Gibb McCausland Richardson Bauld Gibson McCawley Ritchie Bell Gillaspie BALFOUR (BURLEY) McClairne Robb Black Gilmore 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 Plantation of Ulster (1877), David HAMILTON (ABERCORN) 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 Scotland to Ulster Buchanan Grindall O R McGern Savage Burke Gryme T STEWART (OCHILTREE) McGowan Sawer Burne Grynney 4 H McIlchany Sayne STEWART Ballycastle McSWEENEY Coleraine C 2 H STEWART McCLELLAND MACDONNELL 3 Ballymoney A Burns Haldane KNOX Londonderry McIlmurry Scott N Buthill Hall CUNNINGHAM McIlveyne Semple Glenarm Cahoon Hamill STEWART Antrim N SCOTLAND McIlwrath Seton KNOX Raphoe HAMILTON Londonderry ADAIR SHAW Calte Hamilton LESLIE E McKaudy Sharpe Strabane Ballymena Calwell Harne Donegal HAMILTON COLVILLE AGNEW L McKay Shaw HAMILTON McCLELLAND EDMONSTONE Campbell Harper MURRAY HAMILTON McKearne Shirloe Carrickfergus D Carcott Harvey DRUMMONDULSTER5 N McKee Simpson Carlile Hatrick RICHARDSON Bangor Donaghadee A McKernan Skingeor Ballyshannon Tyrone STEWART BelfastHAMILTON L Carmichael Heigate Newtownards McKilmun Smelley STEWART G Carothers Henderson 1 MONTGOMERY McKinney Smellham HUME ERSKINE Dungannon HAMILTON Carr Hendrie O'NEILL N McKittrick Smith DUNBAR STEWART HAMILTON E Carslaw Hendry Enniskillen ACHESON 6 McKym Smyth Fermanagh Armagh Carson Henrison MAGUIRE HAMILTON Down McLellan Somervell Cathcart Henry BALFOUR McLintagh Spence Monaghan Armagh PRINCIPAL Catherwood Hepburn CREIGHTON MAGENNIS IRISH SEA SCOTTISH McLoghery Spier LANDLORD O'NEILL Newry 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 Cavan 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 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 Craig Hudgsone though others, such as Ludovic Stewart, Duke of Lennox, and James role in religious life in the province. 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 Ayrshire, 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 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 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, Derry 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 County 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 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. 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 County Armagh the Acheson family founded a Moffatt Tees 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. Danielston Karns 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 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 townland 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 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 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 Boylagh and Banagh 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 Church of Ireland, but in the 1630s were was a Catholic, making him different from they built a completely Morne