Post by Doc on May 13, 2011 0:09:20 GMT -5
My grandmother:
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes&id=I03459
And if you click "FATHER" on her page, and continue clicking "FATHER" on several subsequent pages that will ensue, you will arrive at:
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes&id=I02609
John O.More from Glasgow, Ireland.
And on his page it says:
This family is from Scotland and Ireland. By way of a very brief (and
simplistic) explanation, Northern Island is, even today, a British
'colony.' English landholders were settled on the land in the
seventeenth century, and they attracted Protestant families from the
Scottish lowlands to rent and cultivate their holdings. They became the
genesis of America's vast Scotch-Irish immigration which began about 1740.
END QUOTE.
After googling more about this, I came to the realization about the Ulster Scots
who were invited to move to Northern Ireland by James I & VI.
My "Moore" relatives, who took pride in being Irish, WEREN'T Irish at all. They were
lowlands Scots who were invited to County Antrim in Ireland to farm the "Ulster Plantation." When politics turned negative in the next century, in the late 1600's-early 1700's, many of these "Scotch-Irish" (who were specifically Scots "squatting" in Ireland) fled to Pennsylvania, including my Moore relatives!
The real Irish were Catholic and lived south and west of these Scots in Ireland.
The English were mostly "Church of England." These Scots, my Scots, were "dissenters"; happy in neither church! They were mainly Presbyterians and Quakers!
The Irish saw them as interlopers, and foreigners, and invaders. They were not liked by the English or the Irish! They were distrustful of big government, and government controlled church. They came to America for a chance to live the way they saw fit!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypk5mG5JDvk&NR=1
It looks like several of my GGGfathers and GGGmothers were, possibly, Scots-Irish.
So, I am not Irish-Catholic. Not that any of this matters.....or, could it?
?
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes&id=I03459
And if you click "FATHER" on her page, and continue clicking "FATHER" on several subsequent pages that will ensue, you will arrive at:
wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=irisheyes&id=I02609
John O.More from Glasgow, Ireland.
And on his page it says:
This family is from Scotland and Ireland. By way of a very brief (and
simplistic) explanation, Northern Island is, even today, a British
'colony.' English landholders were settled on the land in the
seventeenth century, and they attracted Protestant families from the
Scottish lowlands to rent and cultivate their holdings. They became the
genesis of America's vast Scotch-Irish immigration which began about 1740.
END QUOTE.
After googling more about this, I came to the realization about the Ulster Scots
who were invited to move to Northern Ireland by James I & VI.
My "Moore" relatives, who took pride in being Irish, WEREN'T Irish at all. They were
lowlands Scots who were invited to County Antrim in Ireland to farm the "Ulster Plantation." When politics turned negative in the next century, in the late 1600's-early 1700's, many of these "Scotch-Irish" (who were specifically Scots "squatting" in Ireland) fled to Pennsylvania, including my Moore relatives!
The real Irish were Catholic and lived south and west of these Scots in Ireland.
The English were mostly "Church of England." These Scots, my Scots, were "dissenters"; happy in neither church! They were mainly Presbyterians and Quakers!
The Irish saw them as interlopers, and foreigners, and invaders. They were not liked by the English or the Irish! They were distrustful of big government, and government controlled church. They came to America for a chance to live the way they saw fit!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypk5mG5JDvk&NR=1
It looks like several of my GGGfathers and GGGmothers were, possibly, Scots-Irish.
So, I am not Irish-Catholic. Not that any of this matters.....or, could it?
?
