A quick search of Google leads me to wonder if he was from the Kentucky area of USA?? If so, maybe this is the answer...........
https://goo.gl/VftRfM Good Luck Jim McKane South Bruce Peninsula, Ontario On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 6:09 PM, rose moore <[email protected]> wrote: > G'Day Len ! > And thanks. Yes spell check got the best of me on that one.. it was > supposed to be townland. > Just now I am on a sharp re-learning curve on time line of Irish > Plantation years and facts... and add the fact that Robinson is the 15th > most common surname in UK, and another article stated Robinson was common > mostly only in Ulster and Ulster being a largely plantationized area. So... > the thought occurs that he might have been originally English rather than > Irish, not that that matters except that his grandson places him in > Ireland prior to the wars as a judge with a town home, leased or even owned > if that was possible before the wars.. > As you can see, I have lots to uncover and learn > My question today is... In one of my Robinson/Robertson ancestor obits.. > it states this Robert Robinson was the "last of the Loughrey Old Volunteers > " > My first assumption is that that means he was an Irish citizen who > volunteered and perhaps not British as I am beginning to think.... > What was an Old Loughrey volunteer? > Many thanks... > Happy Cinco de Mayo to all! > Rm > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CoTyroneList mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cotyroneireland.com/mailman/listinfo/cotyronelist >
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