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Irish Surnames in Texas When researching Irish surnames in Texas we find that settlers come from specific parts of Ireland. There is an influence from South-East Ulster, military influences, and evidence of emigration from the eighteenth century. Our sources on the show contain links to the Wild Geese website and ancestry resources by Helen Kelly and Nicola Morris.
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Again we need to move away from the idea that people only emigrated to North America around the time of the Great Famine of the nineteenth century. Many emigrated before then to North America. Hugo Oconór arrived in Texas in the eighteenth century. The 1750s, a time when Ireland was largely a country of tenant farmers and labourers, with an economy dependent on Great Britain and its protective tariffs. These economic barriers, plus the prospect of land ownership in North America, led many to emigrate, particularly from the northern counties of Derry, Donegal, Tyrone and Antrim. It also brought in wider colonial dimensions of The Spanish Crown and this is an exciting journey for those with Irish ancestry in Texas.
Hence it is important always to check the 1901 and 1911 census for the surnames so you see if they have moved from points of origin. You can look at these free of charge at http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/ We explore the census for Sligo and the McGLOIN surname and found 1 Bridget McGLOIN as a servant in Castlegal. We looked at Townland origins as these are important in Irish genealogy.
Signifcance of place, such as knowing that the McGLOIN and McMULLIN given the task of bringing so many Irish settler families and acting as empresarios.
The history of the place can give you clue on how and where they went. And where you might find them in the annals of the four Masters, CELT website UCC, digital humanities repository. This week, the name Haran showed up in the UCC Celt annals and the Annals of the Four Masters. It went back to its root in 1052 AD and gave use the name of man going on pilgrimage to Clonmacnoise and Clonard abbey.
Our NI influences included the wonder Bill MacAfee website ***** to this one. Scots Irish, those born in Scotland, then move to Ireland, we have hearth records in Ireland, what are they, 1660s Hearth Money Rolls. The Hearth Tax was introduced to Ireland in 1662. Arranged by county, parish and, usually, townland, the Hearth Money Rolls list the names of householders who were liable to pay tax at the rate of two shillings on every hearth or fireplace they had. Some people were exempt* from the tax and, of course, others managed to evade paying it. This means that the lists are not a complete record of householders in a townland. The tax was collected over areas known as "Walks" which were based on towns. For example, the "Dunluce Walk" in County Antrim was centred on the town of Dunluce which was just outside the castle. It covered the baronies of Cary, Dunluce and Kilconway in North Antrim as well as the baronies of Coleraine and North East Liberties in County Londonderry. These were useful for Texas as there are a lot of names which originate in Ulster so such a source is of immense value.
The original Hearth Money Rolls were destroyed by fire in the Four Courts, Dublin in 1922. However, the Presbyterian Historical Society of Ireland had made copies of the Rolls and these were lent to PRONI in the mid-1920s for copying. I have used the PRONI type-written copies to compile the Hearth Money databases for Co. Londonderry and North and Mid Antrim. Remember then that these databases are a transcription of a transcription of a transcription of an original source. This clearly must have implications for the spelling of both personal names and townland names in the database. Click here to see a copy of a page from PRONI: T307 relating to the Parish of Artrea in the Barony of Loughinsholin, Co. Derry and a page from the Parish of Ballymoney in the Barony of Dunluce Upper in Co. Antrim. Billmacafees and also records for Tipperary.
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