Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Morrison Family Name in Ulster 1610 - 1633

[elwyn soutter via CoTyroneList]

Rick,



Ballyboe is from the Irish words “Baile bo” meaning “cow land.” According
to Philip Robinson - “The Plantation of Ulster”, a ballyboe was “A small
Irish land division which, before the plantation, represented the territory
within which several families worked the land. Although the real area of
the ballyboe varied greatly with the quality of the land, it was assumed by
the plantation surveyors to contain 60 acres of profitable land in most
areas of north-west Ulster. Many modern townlands have evolved from these
ballyboes.”



Not all land in Ireland was requisitioned by the Crown at the time of the
Plantation. At least a third remained in the hands of local Irish
landlords, normally provided they agreed to be loyal to the Crown.  An
obvious example would be the Maguires who had lands in Fermanagh. Chunks of
land were declared forfeit following the 1641 uprising and
reallocated.  Details
in the Down survey:



http://downsurvey.tcd.ie/down-survey-maps.php



Robinson spends some time discussing the origins of settler names in
Tyrone, and to what extent Scottish undertakers had Scots tenants, and
English undertakers had English tenants. The implication being that they
originated in their landlords respective estates. However there was
evidently a lot of mixing. For example on p122 he says:



The evidence of Scots settling outside their allocated baronies of Strabane
and Mountjoy is supplemented by a statement of Lord Audley’s in 1614 when
he claimed that his estate of Finagh and Rarone in Omagh barony had as many
Scots as English in it.



Although there is considerable degree of continuity between 1630 and 1666
in the distributional pattern of British settlement, and indeed in the
persistence of English and Scottish localities, the actual surnames on most
estates did change dramatically. This turnover of personnel cannot be
attributed simply to the ravages of the 1641 rebellion, for comparable
changes can be observed between 1622 and 1630. A high degree of tenant
mobility is a striking characteristic of plantation settlement, despite the
continuity of settlement patterns.”



He goes on to discuss colonial spread. “In 1622 the percentage of Scots on
any Tyrone estate was closely related to whether or not the estate was
Scottish owned, and only marginally related to the physical distance from
Londonderry as the natural entry point for Scottish settlers. However by
1630 the gap between the statistical significance of these two factors had
narrowed, and by 1666 it was the distance from Londonderry which was most
significant. This supports the model of colonization outlined above,
whereby the process of direct plantation, with subsequent internal
migration operated simultaneously with that of colonial spread. Furthermore
the contention that colonial spread became relatively more important than
direct plantation with time is also supported.”



(This continues for pages but you will hopefully get the general drift.  Many
settlers in Tyrone and particularly the Scots arrived via Londonderry and
moved across Tyrone. Some stayed put and some moved about. After 40 years
colonial spread meant that a significant percentage were no longer in the
place where they first settled).



Loughterush is in the barony of Omagh East. For me, the absence of
Morrisons in that part of Tyrone in the Muster Rolls (ie c 1630) strongly
suggests your ancestors must have there arrived after that.  There’s only 1
Morison in Tyrone in the Muster Rolls, a Robert Morsion in Strabane barony.
Perhaps your family were connected to him and moved south to Loughterush.
So colonial spread?



Your question is whether Audley brought the Morisons over? I doubt he
brought them over himself because he appears to have acquired those lands
from his uncle, Lord Castlehaven who was the original Undertaker. The
family were from Petersfield in Hampshire.  Morison is not a name
particularly common in that part of England so that would make me doubt
they were Castlehaven tenants in England. But I might be wrong.







Elwyn

On Fri, 12 Jun 2020 at 01:21, James McKane  wrote:

> A search of the CoTyroneIreland.com Tithe Applotment Index shows this entry
>
> MORRISON Edward Loughterush Sloy Manor, Kilskerry 1826
>
>
> Jim McKane
> Kitchener, Ontario
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:02 PM Rick Smoll via CoTyroneList <
> cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote:
>
>> I located a copy of the 1654-1656 Civil Survey that covers the townland
>> of Loughterush in Kilskeery Parish … this obviously does not list the
>> tenants names, only the owner … but there is interesting information
>> there that for me begs some questions that perhaps some of you could help
>> me with. I have attached the top page with the header that describes the
>> area and names the owner, and then the page that lists Laghterish (older
>> spelling or misspelling of Loughterush) among the townlands in his
>> possession.
>> Questions:1. Is there any reason to have confidence that Col. 

Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Morrison Family Name in Ulster 1610 - 1633

[James McKane via CoTyroneList]

A search of the CoTyroneIreland.com Tithe Applotment Index shows this entry

MORRISON Edward Loughterush Sloy Manor, Kilskerry 1826


Jim McKane
Kitchener, Ontario


On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 5:02 PM Rick Smoll via CoTyroneList <
cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote:

> I located a copy of the 1654-1656 Civil Survey that covers the townland of
> Loughterush in Kilskeery Parish … this obviously does not list the tenants
> names, only the owner … but there is interesting information there that for
> me begs some questions that perhaps some of you could help me with. I have
> attached the top page with the header that describes the area and names the
> owner, and then the page that lists Laghterish (older spelling or
> misspelling of Loughterush) among the townlands in his possession.
> Questions:1. Is there any reason to have confidence that Col. Audley
> Mervin  would have been the one to have brought the Morrisons over to
> Loughterush? 2. Were all of the lands of Ulster apportioned out in the time
> frame around 1610, or did it take a longer period of time (ie, could Mervin
> have been granted his land after 1630?) He was also listed among those who
> came to the aid of Londonderry during the siege by James II in 1690, so he
> was not likely an original grantee in 1610.3.The total acreage for the
> townlands of Lisnahanna, Loughterush, and Derryvokenan (?) is listed as 65
> acres … there is obviously a lot more than 65 acres there (even Irish
> acres) ; the Morrison farm alone was about 40-50 acres … could that be
> referring to only the amount of acreage under cultivation?
> Other items of interest: … I now know what a Balliboe is.
> … Based on the note in the left column of the first page, Audley was
> apparently among those protestant royalists who were penalized by Cromwell
> with the settlement act of 1652.
>
>   Rick Smoll
>
> -Original Message-
> From: elwyn soutter 
> To: CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List 
> Cc: rsmoll999 
> Sent: Thu, May 21, 2020 9:27 pm
> Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Morrison Family Name in Ulster 1610 -
> 1633
>
> Rick, The surname, the general location and thefamily denomination all
> point to them being settlers who probably arrived inIreland in the
> 1600s. MacLysaght’s surnames of Ireland describesMorrison as  “an English
> name numerous inUlster.” The location ie Tyrone, is a county heavily
> settled by Scots  in that period, and the family denomination
> (Methodist in 1901) alsopoints to them being incomers. (They would almost
> certainly have been Church ofIreland – ie Anglican- in earlier times, prior
> to Methodism’s arrival inIreland).  So in effect you have 3pointers to them
> being of settler origins. The Muster Rolls c 1630 show a number ofMorrisons
> in Ireland, and one in Tyrone, but none in the Barony of Omagh East(which
> includes Loughterush) so that points to a post 1630 arrival in
> theLoughterush area, if not in Ireland. It’s very rare to find any
> documentationfor the 1600s, unless you were an Undertaker or major land
> owner, or had landforfeit after the 1641 rebellion.  Theearliest likely
> records might be in the Registry of Deeds which start around1709. If the
> family registered a lease or other significant document, thatsometimes
> gives you a date. Failing that, church records may help. KilskeeryChurch of
> Ireland records start in 1767 so you might find them there. For somepeople
> the tithe applotment records in the late 1820s/early 1830s are often
> theearliest records to be found.   I searched the PRONI e-catalogue but see
> nomention there of Morrison in Loughterush other than in the tithes in
> 1826.There were no comprehensive records of when people first acquired
> land. Formost 17th century settlers, the first 150 years or so of their
> timein Ireland are lost in the mists of time. Elwyn
> On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 03:06, rsmoll999 via CoTyroneList <
> cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> wrote:
>
> Peter  ... thanks for responding  ... the links you sent are not working
> for me. I'll do some more hunting for those sites.Sent from my Sprint
> Samsung Galaxy S9.
>  Original message From: Peter McKittrick via CoTyroneList <
> cotyronelist@cotyroneireland.com> Date: 5/21/20  8:43 PM  (GMT-06:00) To:
> "CoTyroneIreland.com Mailing List"  Cc:
> Peter McKittrick  Subject: [CoTyroneMailingList]
> Morrison Family Name in Ulster 1610 - 1633 A past Genealogical Society of
> Victoria (Australia) handout indicates that Morrison appears in Scottish
> names in Tyrone, 1610-1633 based on muster rolls and estate maps.Sources:
>Brian Orr, Plantation of Ireland and the Ulster Scots published
> on http://www.irishclans.com/ 
>   Gwen Rawlings-Barry, The Ulster Plantation (1605-1697) published on
> http://www.canadasulsterscots.tripod.com/ <
> http://www.canadasulsterscots.tripod.com/> (website not found).Peter
> McKittrick> On 22 May 2020, at 10:23 am, Gordon Wilkinson via CoTyroneList <
> 

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Dorothy Gaunt

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> On 11/06/2020, at 9:43 PM, Jim McKane via CoTyroneList 
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