Ulster-American Folk Park County Tyrone

Exodus Belfast Telegraph

"Between 1800 and 1900, almost 8 million people bade farewell to their Irish home in search of new lives in a new world. Why?"

Dorrough Genealogical Web Site Includes text of Dorroh Family History Project newsletter, and this quote:

"ORGIN OF THE DOROUGH SURNAME: The Dorough surname is Scottish and Irish in orgin and is a derivative of the Scottish name Darroch. Darroch is a sept of the clan McDonald of the Isle. In 1794 the Lord Lyon King of Arms officially registered "Duncan Darroch of Gourock, chief of this ancient name, the patronymic of which is MacIliriach," showing that Iliriach was the progenitor of this sept. The name has its meaning based in the gaelic Dubh Dara which is "Black Oak." The movement of the family to Ireland is still open to debate. It is my opinion that it occured as part of the plantation period of the 1660s in Northern Ireland. However there are those who argue that the term Scotch-Irish does not apply to the McDonald Clan because the clan was in Ireland long before the plantations. English land records for the plantations do list "Native Irish" who were given land. Among this list were the MacDonalds. This list also contains Irish with variations of the name Dorough assigned land. The name Dorough in Ireland has long been associated with county Antrim and Down." (email: smdrdd@worldnet.att.net)

Ulster Historical Foundation Antrim, Down, and Belfast

"Emigration from Antrim and Down. Unlike other parts of Ireland this area has a tradition of emigration, in the main to North America which stretches back to the 17th century. This steady stream of Ulstermen and women were largely Presbyterians. Emigration on a large scale became commonplace in the first half of the 18th century. The decade of the Great Famine added impetus to this haemorrhage and again Belfast was the focal point and North America was the destination. However, Britian and Australia also received emigrants in greater numbers."

By the Dawn's Early Light Ulster Emigration to the New World in the Eighteenth Century (by Ronnie Hanna)

"The first recorded sailing of an emigrant ship from Ulster to America was that of the Friends' Goodwill, which left Larne in April 1717 and arrived in Boston..."

"From 1771, until the outbreak of hostilities with Britain in 1775, emigration from Ulster was at its height. Between 25,000 and 30,000 people entered the American colonies, forced out of their homeland by depression in the linen industry and persecution on the tenant farrns. The large increases in rents on the Antrirn estates of the Marquis of Donegall was particularly devastating. In many cases, the only alternative to emigration appeared to be destruction."

"Further south, the coastal region of South Carolina also acted as a starting point for Ulster settlement. As in Maryland, the few Ulster families that stayed here, did so only until their term of endurance ended. The plantation system and the dominant position of the Anglican church in this region was not to the taste of the Ulster settlers and so it was to the west that they turned their eyes."

American Plantations and Colonies: Ships to South Carolina, 1768 & 1772

"October 4, 1772 The Lord Dunluce, Hopewell, Pennsylvania Farmer, and Free Mason (or Freemason) departed Larne, Ireland, and arrived in December, 1772, at Charleston, South Carolina"

Dorrough/Dorroh Spelling Variations

Orgin of the Dorrough Surname The fake-parchment version.

County Antrim Miscellaneous Records

Larne Town County Antrim's emigration port

Ulster Historical Foundation Book List Order online. Grave inscriptions, OS maps, biography, local history...

Other Ulster-American Families

Descendants of JOHN CRAIG

"John Craig, Esq, came from Ireland on the LORD DUNLUCE, one of five ships brainging 467 families, many of whom were Covenanters coming with the Rev. William Martin from County Antrim, Ireland. With Rev Martin on board, the ship sailed from Larne, North Ireland, October 4, 1772 and arrived in Charleston, South Carolina, December 20, 1772. The LORD DUNLUCE was the largest of the five ships bringing these people to South Carolina in 1772 where they expected to receive land and live free."

BLAIR ANCESTORS of Barbara Blair Feldhaus

"In County Down Ireland, James Blair's family was part of the congregation of Rev. William Martin, called the "seceders" they were a splinter Presbyterian group. In 1772, Reverend Martin received a "call" to South Carolina; about one thousand seceders, five shiploads, went with him. James Blair's ship was the Lord Dunluce, which left Larne Ulster, 4 Oct. 1772 and it arrived at Charleston, South Carolina on 2 Dec. 1772, after sailing against contrary winds. The land in America was to cost five pounds, and the acreage was determined by family size. If the immigrant had no money the land was free. Since, these were Scotsman and thrifty with their money, the book says not too many of them could come up with the five pounds. This was a large group, and as such they were scattered around the Abbeville district of South Carolina. James was given 230 acres on the shores of Fishing Creek near Rev. Martin in Craven County, later Chester County."

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