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Topic: Irish Methodists from Aghowle/Aghold and Armagh (Read 347 times)
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coddescendant
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Starting in the late teens (1816-20) the membership of one church, St. Michael's Church of Ireland began a migration which included several families whose members had fought on the Rebellion of 1798 for the British. In Canada, many of these, but not all, would join the new Wesleyan Methodist faith, and many would find themselves in the incredibly inhospitable (to farming) Ramsay and Lanark Townships of Lanark County in Upper Canada (Ontario). These were the Codds (Codes/Coads), the James, the Jacksons, the Chamneys, the Halpennys, the Giltraps, the Watchhorns, the Hopkins from Wicklow, joined later by the McCreerys, the Magees, the Mitchells, the Bensons, the Boyds and the Dalzells (Dezells) from Armagh. The Protestant Magees would eventually link up with the grandmother and aunt of Canadian Father of Confederation - Thomas D'Arcy McGee, who would visit them at the community of Boyd's Settlement. These families and others make up the content of a web site which attempts to tell their story. The search is for the story and the names of their forebears in Ireland, the Irish stock which imbued them with the courage to take a chance on a new life in a world beyond their comprehension....
The search is featured on a web site at:
http://www.leadersoftomorrowinstitute.com/indexz.html
Enjoy and feel free to make additions and corrections....
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willowtree
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on the storytellers path with my ancestors
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My many g-grandfather Alexander McDiarmid born Skye 1807 married Catherine Henderson born 1807 Argyll on November 4, 1832 at Barony Glebe Glasgow. McDiarmid is an ancient Irish name going back to Diarmid O'Duibhe (O'Duinne), Finn MacCool's (unfortunate) compatriot, and the foster son of Mannan of the Sea (though they became a sept of the Campbells when they left Ireland, my family have handed down the story the name is Celtic Irish)
Alexander and Catherine settled on Skye, at least for the period just before they and their 3 young sons went to Canada 1844/5, initially to North Dakota, before settling in Ontario.
Their first Canadian born son Neil Armand McDiarmid became a Methodist minister (travelling) and master Freemason, so I am assuming his parents were Methodists also, or at least one of them.
We would love to know what the Armand is about, as it was handed down by Neil to his son, Frederick Armand McDiarmid (The Frederick from Neil's wife's heroic Loyalist grandfather who died at Fort Niagara fighting as part of Butler's Rangers in 1780s.)
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Investigating Benoit, Trottier, Marchand and related lines in Canada and USA; Tadlock, Collett, Hibbitt, Gray, Bourland (not TEXAS branch) and related families USA; Franz and Drescher Austria/Cz/Germany; Van Antwerp, Stephens, Dachstader/Docksteader, Decou/Decew and related families USA/Canada; McDiarmid Skye/Canada; Johnston Dublin/Australia; Cole, Colley, Pierce Australia; Pound, Wyatt, Collins Ireland and UK and Australia; Prokop Hungary/ travelling Romany post-revolution and pre-revolution.
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