Bravo Elwyn!
Many thanks for this informative response and for highlighting the importance of the Muster Rolls of 1630-1 in the story of the settlement of the Plantation settlers; these are important records. Several have been transcribed and have been uploaded onto CTI https://www.cotyroneireland.com/ Abercorn Estate - Manor of Cloghogal, Leckpatrick Parish, Co. Tyrone Muster Rolls 1631<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estates/cloghogalmuster1631.html> Abercorn Estate - Manor of Dunnalong, Donagheady Parish, Co. Tyrone Muster Rolls 1631<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estates/dunnalongmuster1631.html> Abercorn Estate - Town of Strabane, Barony of Strabane, Co. Tyrone Muster Roll of Men & Armes 1631<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/estates/strabanemuster1631.html> Tyrone Muster Rolls, 1631 - Sir William Stewart, Knight, Undertaker of 4,000 acres: His Men and Armes in the Barony of Clogher<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/muster/tyroneclogher1631.html> Muster Roll of the Regiment of Robert Lydsay, Eaquire, Desertcreat Parish, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, 1630<https://www.cotyroneireland.com/muster/desertcreat1630.html> Your research offered great news for Gordon. On a personal level, my maternal forebear John Arbuckle (spelt Arbahale in 1630) is recorded in the Leckpatrick Parish Abercorn Muster Rolls of 1630 and 1631 as possessing a sword and pike, so not as affluent as William Wilkinson. Arbuckles resided in the parish until 2002 and were the last family to hold burial rights within the Old Leckpatrick Burial Ground, Ballymagorry. I have further muster rolls awaiting transcribing which must remain a task for the future................. Thanks for your valuable contributions to CTI, Elwyn. Regards, Len Swindley, Melbourne, Australia Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: CoTyroneList <[email protected]> on behalf of elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 7:14:06 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List <[email protected]> Cc: elwyn soutter <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] A Query on the Ulster Plantation - a late arrival? Gordon, The Plantation of Ulster was very much a 17th century event. The main years when folk arrived were 1610-1630. Anyone arriving in the 19th century did not come as part of the Plantation. Folk did arrive after the Plantation. For example, in the 1640s, General Monro’s army of 10,000 Scots was disbanded at Carrickfergus and many of them chose to stay rather than return to Scotland, and there was a huge influx from Scotland in the 1690s due to famine there. By the 1700s people were leaving again in significant numbers. And this increased dramatically in the 1800s. So someone could have settled in Ireland in the 1800s but it would have been against the flow, so to speak. Philip Robinson’s book “The Plantation of Ulster” is good background reading. See: http://orrnamestudy.com/plantnire1610.htm There are no lists of settlers at the time of the Plantation. However we do know the names of the Chief and Ordinary Undertakers (ie the main estate owners) and where they came from in Scotland and England. Since they brought many tenants with them, it is sometimes possible to point broadly to where someone’s family might have originated, but that only applies if they arrived in 1610-1630. You say your Wilkinson ancestor arrived in Ireland in the 1800s. How sure are you about that? The reason that I ask is because according to the Muster Rolls (c 1630) there was a William Wilkinson on the Powerscourt estate then. He had a sword and a caliver (a light musket) indicating he was quite comfortably off financially. There is a footnote in Bob Hunter’s book on the Muster Rolls stating: “Wilkinson, who appears to have been reputedly a healer, was resident in Benburb when he was killed 1641 or 1642 (Examination of Thomas Dixon 15 March 1653). TCD MS 836, fols 120r -120v).” That examination (Interview) can be viewed on this site: http://www.1641.tcd.ie/index.php So there was 1 Wilkinson family on the Powerscourt estate in 1630. Could your family have in fact arrived as part of the Plantation after all? Have you searched the Registry of Deeds or PRONI for Wilkinson leases or other records relating to the 1700s for example? Elwyn On 31/07/2019, Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I hope someone can add to my understanding of the Ulster Plantation. > Family legend has it that my great-great grandfather, John Wilkinson > (~1802-1878) was a plantationer from York, Yorkshire. He settled in > Coolkill townland, near Eglish, about 10kn SSW from Dungannon (I have > the actual farmland that he worked). The Griffith Index (1847-1864) has > him leasing a tenement in 1860 from Viscount Powerscourt. Now my > understanding is that the main Plantation of Tyrone was in 1609 under > James I although activity continued off and on until around 1688. This > doesn't agree with my family legend where John was supposedly the first > plantationer of the family. Was there any plantation after 1688, > specifically to Tyrone, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries? My > GGgrandfather would have arrived in the early 19thC, if he was indeed a > plantationer. Perhaps a private plantation? > > On another track, is there any record of the names of plantationers, > dates of arrival in Ireland and their home towns of origin? > > Kind regards, > > Gordon Wilkinson > > -- > _________________________________ > Nereda & Gordon Wilkinson, Hyde Park, South Australia. > Web: www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon<http://www.ozemail.com.au/~neredon> > Skype id: neredon > Emails: [email protected] > [email protected] > > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList Mailing List > Mailing List Email Address: [email protected] > Change Your Preferences: > http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com > Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY > _______________________________________________ CoTyroneList Mailing List Mailing List Email Address: [email protected] Change Your Preferences: http://mail.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist_cotyroneireland.com Mailing List Archive: https://goo.gl/mQCKrY
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