WARNOCKS: a group descended from the Strathclyde Britons, a mixture of Gaelic/Celts who ranged from Lanarkshire in the south of Scotland, northward to the south bank of the River Clyde; a sept of the Clan Graham (of Montieth)

(‘*’ indicates event on time-line involving Warnocks)

6000 B.C. - Ireland was first settled by hunters and fishers along its eastern coast

3000 B.C. - megalithic tombs were first constructed in Ireland

600-150 B.C. - Gaels from Western Europe found their way to Ireland and subdued the previous inhabitants

30 A.D. - Ireland was organized into five kingdoms, the traditional "Five Fifths of Ireland"

78 A.D. - the Romans tried to conquer the Picts in Scotland, but failed

350 - Christianity reached Ireland

400 - Ireland had seven independent kingdoms whose kings allied their armies against Roman Britain and the Continent

432 - St. Patrick arrived in Ireland after he escaped from slavery and studied religion in the Roman church; he dedicated his life to converting the Irish to Christianity *Dec. 7, 521 - Columba (later known as St. Columcille), uncle to Mhearnog, was born, probably at Gartan in County Donegal, Ireland (at the time it was Scotia); he was a disciple of St. Patrick and spent his early life among the Scots in Scotia and later became the apostle to the Picts in Scotland; he established the first Christian monastery in Scotland on the Isle of Iona and is buried there

*550 - Mhearnog was born in Scotia to Columba’s sister Cumine and her husband Decuil; Cumine’s father was Feidlimid, a member of the ruling family of Ireland closely allied to that of Dalriada (Argyll); Cumine’s mother, Eithne, was of Leinster extraction and was descended from an illustrious king; Mhearnog eventually became sainted by the Catholic church

500’s - most of Scotland converted to Christianity

600’s - the religious unity of Scotland was completed

*600 (or so) - Mhearnog settled in Kilmarnock, Scotland, where he founded a church and is probably buried 400-900 - the territory of the Gaelic/Celts in Scotland was overrun by the Irish Gaels, then the Angles from the East, then the Picts and Dalriadans from the north; but their basic culture remained the same

700’s - Irish monasticism reached its zenith

795 - full-scale Viking invasion of Ireland occurred

844 - the first kingdom of Scotland was established when Kenneth Mac Alpin, king of the Scots, claimed the throne of the Picts

853 - Ireland was invaded by the Danes who gradually adopted Christianity

1000 - the race of Gaelic/Celts had formed into discernible Clans and families in Scotland

1014 - Brian Boru defeated the Vikings at Clontarf, Ireland, but was murdered

1057 - Macbeth, who had overthrown King Duncan, was killed in battle; Duncan’s son, Malcolm III, followed Macbeth to the throne; Malcolm’s wife Margaret was from England, and many English traditions were adopted; the English language took the place of Gaelic in Scotland 1152 - four ecclesiastical provinces - Ulster, Leinster, Munster, and Connaught - were created in Ireland; both Gaelic and Danish elements helped form a united Church

1155 - Pope Adrian IV, an Englishman, made Henry II of England the feudal lord of Ireland in an attempt to change the religion there

1168 - the English invaded Ireland and invoked reforms of land and political and social structure

1180-1400 - many Normans from England settled the eastern areas of Ireland, particulary near Dublin

*1185 - the first chief Gillemernock held the family lands in Scotland (Where?) *1200 - ‘Warnock’ arose as a surname in Scotland, near Inverness, where they built strong castles; they were not a Highland or a Lowland clan, but were a ruling family 1246 - many of the Strathclyde families straddled the border of Scotland and England; six chiefs from the Scottish side and six chiefs from the English side met at Carlisle and produced a set of laws governing all the border clans; these laws covered the specifics of cattle and horse thievery, acceptable practices among the border clans

1249-1285 - Alexander III reigned as king of Scotland and its ‘Golden Age’; after he died, a struggle for the throne ensue

1292 - Edward I, king of England, recognized John Baliol as king in preference to Robert Bruce and claimed the overlordship of Scotland for himself; the Scottish nobles revolted and forced Baliol to make an alliance with France; then Edward invaded Scotland; he was victorious at the battle of Dunbar and proclaimed himself king of Scotland; the Scots rose under William Wallace, the first popular hero of Scottish history and won a number of battles before he was betrayed and executed; then Robert Bruce took up the struggle

1314 - Robert Bruce won a victory at the Battle of Bannockburn and established Scottish independence

*1320 - the successor to the first chief Gillemernock held the Warnock family lands during the reign of Robert the Bruce in Scotland

1328 - Robert Bruce (1274-1329) was recognized as Robert I, king of Scotland, by Edward I, king of England

1329 - Robert Bruce died, and another struggle for the throne began; it ended when the Stuart family gained the Scottish throne

1367 - a law was enacted to keep the Irish and Danes separate in Ireland after persistent strife there

1394-1437 - King James I (Stuart) of Scotland lived; he finally put down the ruling nobles

*1430 - because of disruptions between Scottish clans and the Kings, a large body of the Warnock sept went from Inverness (in central Scotland) to Antrim and Bangor, County Down, Ireland, to become ‘gallowglasses’ (paid retainers) to help the O’Neill Clan against the English invaders and neighboring clans who resisted their leadership; they were a tall and superior type of soldier, brave and dependable; they were eventually granted land around Bangor; the following are mentioned in Irish poetry for their feats in battle: Caoman Mac Mearnog Comgall Mearnog Feargal Mac Mearnog *1489 - Robert Warnock was pardoned for rebellion against the King of Scotland

1495 - Henry VII of England extended his rule over all of Ireland and took over the Irish parliament; he tried to separate the Irish Church from the Papacy, but the Irish intensified their resolve against the English

*1498 - the Warnocks held Dumbarton Castle in Lanarkshire, Scotland, against the king

*Jan., 1498 - King James IV (Stuart) of Scotland gave ‘Warnockland’, outside Kilmarnock, to the Warnocks (How did this relate to their holding Dumbarton Castle?)

*1499 - John Warnock was a witness at Sterling

1502 - James IV (Stuart) married Margaret Tudor, an English princess, as a link to England, rather than France

*1505 - Andree Warnock lived in Lanarkshire, Scotland

1513 - James IV (Stuart) invaded England and was defeated and killed at the Battle of Flodden Field; James V (Stuart) became king of Scotland

*1516 - David Warnock was a witness at Edinburgh, Scotland

*1530 - John Warnock lived in Glasgow, Scotland

*1540 - Robert Warnock was a farmer at Kilbride, Lanarkshire, Scotland

1542 - James V (Stuart)was defeated by the English at Solway Firth; his daughter Mary was brought up in France and married Lord Darnley, a French prince; she then became Mary, Queen of Scots; her son later became James VI of Scotland

*1547 - 3 Warnocks are listed as signers of a document appointing a priest (or clerk) to the Parish of Kilmarnock, Scotland

1560 - the Scottish Parliament, under the influence of John Knox, established a national Protestant church

*1562 - James Warnock was a witness in Ayrshire, Scotland

1566 - James VI, future king of Scotland, was born; he was brought up Protestant and was the first of the Stuarts to reign as an Anglican

1568 - Mary, Queen of Scots, was forced to abdicate and escaped to England, as she remained a Roman Catholic and was in disfavor with the Scots; she was imprisoned and later executed by Queen Elizabeth of England

1560’s - the English suppressed a revolt in Ulster; Queen Elizabeth expropriated all lands there and settled the province with Englishmen

*1573 - Richard Varnok was a farmer near Edinburgh, Scotland

*1582 - David Vernok was a servitor of John Flemyng of Boghall, Renfrewshire, Scotland

*1597 - Andrew Warnock lived in Glasgow, Scotland

*1600’s - the surname‘Warnock’ was interchangeable with ‘Graham’ and also MacIlvernock in Scotland

*1602 - John Warnock was a retoured heir of John Warnock in Kittoksvid, Scotland

*1602 - John Warnock was chief of the Warnocks in Scotland

1603 - the union of the Scottish and English crowns became a reality under James VI of Scotland who became James I of England, as he was heir to the British throne when Queen Elizabeth died; in Scotland he dispersed the ‘unruly border clans’, which had served loyally in defense of each side, to, England, northern Scotland, and Ireland; some were banished directly to the colonies and the New World; in Ireland, Catholic schools were closed and children were taught in Protestant institutions; an emigration trend began from Ireland

*1606 - Brothers John, James, and William Warnock migrated from Scotland to northern Ireland to work as tenant farmers under James Hamilton, son of the Vicar of Dunlop in Ayrshire, and Hugh Mont- gomery, 6th Laird of Braidstane of Ayrshire, who had been granted vast areas of lands mainly in County Down for services they had rendered to King James I of England; Hamilton later became Viscounty Claneboy and had as part of his new estate the 3 parishes of Inishargie, Ballyhalbert, and Ballywalter; (Ballywalter Parish contains the townlands of Ballyferis and Whitechurch); these first settlers to County Down were probably near neighbors of James Hamilton in Dunlop, as within 6 milesof Dunlop in Ayrshire there is a farm called Warnockland in the Parish of Fenwick near Kilmarnock (Fenwick was a part of the Parish of Kilmarnock until 1642 when it disjoined)

*1607 - the O’Neill Clan was defeated in northern Ireland and some fled as ‘Wild Geese’ to serve in the armies of France, Spain, Germany, and Poland; several Warnocks who had been allied with the O’Neills went as well; others stayed on as tenant farmers (Did some of those who stayed in Ireland and became tenant farmers, live virtually side-by-side those who went over from Scotland during the Ulster Plantation? Perhaps those who had come over in 1430 as gallowglasses remained Catholic, and the newcomers, as required, came as Protestants?)

*1620 - John Warnock was registered as an heir of Alexander Warnock in Auldhous, Scotland

1625 - birth of Charles I, future king of England and Scotland

1638 - Scots signed a National Covenant and prepared to fight against Charles I for trying to reorganize the Scottish church and introduce a modified English Prayer Book; English Puritans also turned against the king

1642 - civil war broke out in England; the Covenanters supported Parliament against the king’s party

1645 - Charles I of England surrendered; he was turned over to Parliament, led by Oliver Cromwell, and beheaded

*1649 - Matthew Warnock, Arthur Warnock, Sean Warnock, and Brendon Warnock (religion unknown) were executed by Oliver Cromwell for resisting him, as he invoked strict rule over Ireland and confiscated all Catholic holdings; Prince Charles was proclaimed King of Ireland, but Oliver Cromwell forced him to leave

1650 - Oliver Cromwell’s forces were victorious at the Battle of Dunbar; and Cromwell later forced the Scots into union with England

1651 - Charles was proclaimed king of the Scots by promising to be Presbyterian, but his army was defeated by Cromwell at Worcester, so Prince Charles fled to France

1658 - Cromwell died; Prince Charles of England became Roman Catholic; Irish reclaimed their lands

1660 - Prince Charles was recalled as King Charles II of England; English law prevailed throughout Ireland

*1684 - James Warnock and Agnes Warnock were residents in the Parish of Borgue, Scotland

1685 - James II (Stuart), brother of Charles, also a Catholic, was king of England and Scotland

*1688 - the Reverend Archibald Graham (who also went by the surname M’Ilvernock) was seated at Obbe, Scotland, as the last Bishop of the Isle (?)

1688 - Scots again joined with the English to drive out the Stuarts; James II was forced to abdicate; Presbyterianism was restored; William of Orange took over, becoming William III; Charles II fled to France

1689 - James tried to win back the throne by invading Ireland, but was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne

1690 - the Irish defeated the English at Londonderry and signed a treaty with London, but it was rejected by the Protestant dominated Irish parliament; the rift between the two religions broadened

1702 - William died; his wife, Queen Anne, a sister to Mary of Scotland, took over 1707 - the English Parliament passed an Act of Union which was pushed through the Scottish Parliament, and the two kingdoms were united under the name of Great Britain; the Scottish church and Scottish laws were unchanged; the Parliament of Scotland disappeared, but the Scots were given representation in the British Parliament 1714 - Queen Anne died; George I assumed the throne

*1715 - the Jacobites, those Scots, especially among the clans, who remained loyal to James II, rose in rebellion and were defeated; among these Jacobites were the Montroses, a noble family of notable royalists who were Grahams and possibly heads of the clan (under which Warnocks were a sept)

1727 - Catholics were excluded from all public office in Ireland and denied the right to vote

1745 - the Highlanders rose again in support of Charles Stuart (Bonnie Prince Charles), son of James, and beat the English troops in Scotland; Prince Charles and his followers marched into England, but were forced to retreat

1746 - the English armies forced a battle on Culloden Moor and destroyed the hopes of the House of Stuart forever; Charles fled into the highlands, then escaped to France; the English executed many clan chiefs and forgade Highlanders to carry arms, wear kilts, or play the bagpipes

1782 - the above restrictions were lifted in Scotland

1798 - a revolt occurred in Ireland between Catholics and Protestants

Jan. 1, 1801 - the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland came into existence; relations continued to deteriorate between the Catholic and Protestant populations

1830’s - a movement in Ireland began to repeal the above union; it found little favor in Ulster which prospered and supported the legislative union with Britain; Catholic areas of Ireland fared less well

1840’s - the potato crops in Ireland failed; a devastating famine resulted; the population fell due to starvation, disease, and emigration

1843 - the Church of Scotland was broken up, and the Free Church of Scotland was established by some of its congregation

1914 - a separate Irish parliament within the Union (of Great Britain and Ireland) was formed: known as "home rule", but it was not put into effect until the end of World War I

1920 - the "Government of Ireland Act" set up separate parliaments for both the north and south, although only that in the north functioned

1921 - a treaty between southern Ireland and Britain established the Irish Free State, a self-governing dominion within the British Commonwealth of Nations, which allowed the Northern Ireland Parliament to take the six northern countries out of the dominion; then a civil was broke out between pro-treaty and anti-treaty factions, but ultimately the treaty stood

1929 - the Church of Scotland was united again

1937 - southern Ireland drafted and adopted a new constitution creating the new state of Eire; a republic in all but name, it remained formally within the British Commonwealth

1948 - southern Ireland’s ties with the Commonwealth were broken, and the Republic of Ireland was born

1972 - the Republic of Ireland joined the European Economic Community (EEC) along with the United Kingdom and Denmark; the Northern Irish State was dissolved, and the six counties were put under the rule from London

1985 - an Anglo-Irish agreement was signed

1994 - peace was declared with a cease-fire in Ireland

DERIVATION OF ‘WARNOCK’ SURNAME

Mhearnog = saint born in 550 A.D. in Scotia

Giolla = disciple, follower

Giolla Mhearnog = disciple of Mhearnog

Mac Giolla Mhearnog = son of a disciple of Mhearnog

IRISH SCOTTISH Mac Giolla Mhearnog Mac Gille Mhearnaig MacGillavearnoge Mac Gilvernock MacMhearnog Mac Ilvernock Mac Warnock Warnoch Warnock Warnock Varnok Vernok Marnoc

‘whar’: home (Perhaps Mhearnog was born in the hills of Scotia) ‘cnoc’: hill

Gordon, in his ‘Scotichronicon’ says that Mernock is a contraction of Mo (my)-Ernin-occ (little), which would be an expression of affection