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Northern Ireland is part of the United
Kingdom and covers 5,459 square
miles (14,139 km˛) in the northeast of the island of Ireland, about
a sixth of the total area of the island. It has a population of 1,685,000
(April 2001) — between a quarter and a third of the island's total
population. It consists of six counties situated within the province of Ulster, and in
the UK is generally known as one of its four Home
Nations, forming a constituent country of the United Kingdom.[1] Some of
these terms have controversial implications in relation to political
ideologies concerning the constitutional status of Northern Ireland. The area now known as Northern Ireland
has had a diverse history. From serving as the bedrock of Irish resistance in the era of the plantations of Queen Elizabeth and James I in other parts of Ireland, it became
itself the subject of major planting of Scottish and English
settlers after the Flight of the Earls in 1607 (when the native
Gaelic aristocracy fled to Catholic Europe). The all-island Kingdom of Ireland (1541—1800) merged into the
United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland in 1801 under the terms of the Act of Union, under which the kingdoms of Ireland and Great Britain merged under a central
parliament, government and monarchy based in London. In the
early 20th century Unionists, led by Sir
Edward Carson, opposed the introduction of Home Rule
in Ireland. Unionists were in a minority on the island of
Ireland as a whole, but were a majority in the northern province of Ulster, and a
very large majority in the counties of Antrim, and Down, small majorities in
the counties of Armagh and Londonderry, with
substantial numbers also concentrated in the nationalist-majority counties of
Fermanagh and Tyrone. These six counties,
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"Ulster-Scots" is a term used
to refer to people descended from Scots
who live in Northern Ireland in a part of the ancient Irish Province of Ulster in Ireland. For
the most part today, many people of Protestant
background identify with this grouping, and the identification is also
largely restricted to people in Northern
Ireland and Donegal, in the Irish Republic though the majority are Protestant
some were Roman Catholic such as the Gallowglass.
Scots-Irish is the usual term for these same people who emigrated
to the United States; Scots-Irish is also used to refer to the same people,
and is not to be confused with Irish-Scots,
i.e. Irish emigrants to Scotland. They are largely descended from Galloway and
the Scottish Borders Country, although some descend
from further north in the Scottish Lowlands as well. Although many would
see them as Celts in respect of both their Scottish and Irish origin, some
Ulster-Scots eschew being labeled "Celtic", to distinguish their
identity from that of the Republic of Ireland. With the enforcement of Queen Anne's 1703 Test Act in
Ulster, which caused further discrimination against non-Anglicans,
considerable numbers of Ulster-Scots migrated to the North
American colonies throughout the 18th
century (450,000 people from Ireland
(approximately half of whom were Ulster Presbyterians) settled in the
USA between 1717and 1770 alone). Disdaining (or forced out of) the heavily English regions
on the Atlantic coast, most groups of Ulster-Scot settlers crossed into the
"western mountains", where their descendants populated the Appalachian regions and the Ohio Valley. Others
settled in northern New England, The
Carolinas, Georgia, and various parts of Eastern
Canada. In the United States Census, 2000, 4.3 million
Americans (1.5% of the population of the USA) claimed Scots-Irish ancestry, though estimates
suggest that the true number of Scotch-Irish in the USA is more in the region
of 27 million.[1] Two possible reasons have been suggested for the disparity
of the figures of the census and the estimation. The first is that
Scotch-Irish may quite often regard themselves as simply having either Irish
ancestry (which 10.8% of Americans reported) or Scottish ancestry (reported
by 4.9 million or 1.7% of the total population ) or
English ancestory (7.7%). The other is that most of
the descendants of this historical group have integrated themselves into
American society to such an extent that they, like English-Americans
or German-Americans, do not feel the need to identify
with their ancestors as strongly as perhaps the more recent Roman Catholic
Irish-Americans. |
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The
following are surnames of persons, found within our databases, as having been either born, married or
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ARMSTRONG; CAMPBELL;
CUMMINGS; DICKSON; DILL;
DOUGLASS; DOWDLE; DOWNING;
GILLIGAN; KERR; MORRISON;
NEELY; PICKENS; ROBERTSON; ROYSTON;
TODD; WARE; WARNOCK;
WILLIAMS |
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To find out more about each
surname listed above click on the corresponding LINK. Additional information
regarding these surnames may also be found at: |
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Free Genealogy Surname Search Help from Google |
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This free genealogy site to help you
get the best genealogy searches from Google™
by using your family tree, for your research. It
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likely improve your results. The different searches will give you many
different ways of using Google and the Internet to find ancestry information
about this or any other Surname. |
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The following named counties are associated with the history of our DIRECT
ancestors. To select a specific
ancestral county, click on the following link. Here you will find additional
links to our county pages where you can obtain information about our family
gen-sites, images of localities, and surnames of persons, in our database,
who have lived in the selected county. |
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Antrim;
Down; Londonderry |
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The links below may
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Antrim; Armagh; Derry (Londonderry); Down; Fermanagh; Tyrone |
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Northern
Ireland consists of six historic counties: County
Antrim, County Armagh, County
Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, County
Tyrone There
are 5 major settlements with city status in Northern
Ireland: Armagh; Belfast; Derry; Lisburn; Newry Towns and villages: Towns in Northern Ireland and Villages in Northern Ireland, See
also the list of places in Northern Ireland
for all villages, towns and cities
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The
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assist with your research about this State of the United Kingdom. |
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United Kingdom and Ireland - rootsweb.com ·
IGI
Batch Numbers-British Isles & North America ·
A vision of Britain
(on-line library for local history) |
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GENUKI: UK & Ireland Genealogy ·
UK Genealogy - The Portal for UK Family
Research ·
Cyndi’s List - United Kingdom
& Ireland Index ·
Genealogy
SiteFinder: United Kingdom ·
UK
Genealogy Archives, Heraldry and Family History |
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Portal:Northern Ireland - Wikipedia |
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Northern Ireland - Wikipedia ·
Northern Ireland
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