SCOTLAND TO IRELAND

Hi Teresa,

I think you should investigate their birth records. The surnames are quite likely Scottish but I would think that both families arrived in Ireland at least 100 years earlier. They may have been Scots-Presbyterian originally. You could try to see if there is a history of Presbyterianism for the areas mentioned on the net. I know there is one for east Cavan. You could also look at the Tithe Applotments carried out around 1826.Try for the parents in this.Every farmer is named in each townland of every county. This is the next best thing to a census.

Best of luck in your search.

The main group of settlers came from Scotland in the 1600s and there are no records of who most were or exactly where they came from. However Henderson and Armstrong are both names common in the Scottish borders. Many from that area were encouraged to move to Ireland in the 1600s both as a part of the Plantation of Ireland and to reduce the lawlessness on the Scottish borders where many were engaged in extensive crime. They were known as the border reivers (reiver is a Scottish word for a robber) and the Border Reivers have their own website now, where you can read a little more about it. You?ll find both surnames listed there, but as I say there?s little realistic chance of tracing exactly where in Scotland they came from as the records just don?t exist either in Scotland or in Ireland.

http://www.webring.org/l/rd?ring=thescottishthist;id=24;url=http%3A%2F%…

Here is the link to the Church of Ireland baptisms in Drung at that time. No mention of Henderson however there are plenty of Armstrongs. I wonder if they had cousins in Donegal?

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~adrian/LDSBap01.htm

Hi Teresa, 

Perhaps, you could concentrate on the deaths of the fathers, on the marriage certs, does it say if the fathers are deceased? if not, it would hopefully take them into the time of Civil Registration, when you can get the certificates, on them you will have an informer & if it is a member of the family it would give you another lead to go on.

Now I have found on a marriage cert in my own family that the place of residence, was not the place where the family lived, but the place where the groom lived, What was Joseph Henderson's occupation?

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