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Ulster-Scots of Cumberland Valley
Gordon Crooks
Crooks is a leading authority on the Ulster-Scots
(Scots-Irish),
a historian of the Presbyterian denomination, a researcher, and a genealogist.
The vast amount of historical information, which Crooks has contributed, speaks
directly to Allison-Antrim Museum's mission statement, relative to serving as an
educational resource to enhance the study of local and regional history,
pertaining to the cultural development of the Greencastle-Antrim area.
Among the many organizations in which he holds memberships are the
Ulster-Scots Society of America and Allison-Antrim Museum, Inc.
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The following pages and referencing scheme will gradually develop as
the data is collected and published to this website.
Documents
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Ref 001
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The Original Settlers
in Franklin County, Pennsylvania |
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001A |
The Scotch-Irish Epic
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Ref 001B |
The Settlement
Story
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Ref 002 |
For those who are just beginning
to search for their ancestors, this will prove helpful.
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Ref 003 |
This is the Covenant of the
people of Scotland who were Presbyterians while their king and many of the
notables were of Catholic faith. . . .
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Ref 003A |
Laggan Presbytery |
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Ref 003B |
1665 Dongoughmore Parish Money Roll,
part of The Laggan Presbytery. |
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Many of the above
mentioned documents are among the first known ones to actually mention names
of the inhabitants in the 16-1700's and where they lived. These documents
can be used to do what the writer calls a "cluster search" to find your
ancestors. IF you know as an example that your ancestors came from Antrim
and that you have other family names you can use these documents to locate
exactly where they were living. Example the writer found no less than
five family names living in Antrim in 1660 and all living within a two mile
radius of one another, they most certainly belonged to the same parish and
knew each other. Confirmation of this was in Franklin County where they all
settled close to one another and continued to intermarry among the families
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| Part 2 |
Ref 004 |
Covenanter Martyrs
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Ref 005 |
"The Hearth Rolls of County
Antrim 1660-69" contain about an estimated 95% of the names of the
inhabitants living there during that period of time, it lists the names,
townland, and parishes"
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Ref 005A |
1669 Hearth Money Rolls
for North Antrim
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Ref 006 |
This document is in book form
and has a great many family names and their local history in Antrim.
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Ref 007 |
The Protestant Householders
Rolls of 1741 of Antrim County
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Ref 008 |
The Muster Roll of the County of
Donnagall 1630 A.D. |
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Ref 009 |
The Muster Roll of
London Derry 1630 and 1663 |
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Photo's |
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A collection of photographs of
Ulsterscots and Scots-Irish heritage in Northern Ireland by noted
genealogist and researcher Estella Yule Pyror who has granted permission for
their use. In this collection of photographs you will see historical points
of interests in the various counties of Ulster along with example of early
housing used by our ancestors in the 1600-1700's and earlier. |
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