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Ninatoo
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Gordon from Enniskillen - Originally Scottish?
« on: Thursday 18 August 05 12:39 UTC (UK) »
Hi all,

I have just discovered that my gg-grandmother was born in Enniskillen.  Her name was Helen or Ellen Gordon, b. 1870, and I have been fortunate enough to find her parents and siblings already.

What I am curious about is that I always thought that Gordon was a Scottish name.  She certainly moved to Glasgow by 1893 because she married William McCormick there in that year.  I am pretty sure she wasn't a Catholic, as she married William McCormick in the Scottish Unitarian (?) church. 

I have done a little reading regarding the Scots and English coming into Ireland after the Irish were defeated in the 1600's, and I am wondering if the Gordons were one of these families?  Is there any way to find out?

Thanks for reading,

Nina
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CARSON - Glasgow, Ayr and Ireland
CLARK - Dunbarton
CORR - Glasgow and Ireland
COTTERILL - Glasgow and England
CROMBIE - Glasgow, Ayr and Ireland
DOCHERTY - Glasgow
EASTON - Dunbarton, Renfrew and Glasgow
GLANCY - Glasgow and Ireland
GORDON - Glasgow and Ireland
GRANELLI - Glasgow and Italy
LOGAN - Glasgow and Ireland
MAIN - Fearn, Ross & Cromarty and Glasgow
MCCORMICK - Glasgow and England
MCNICOL - Glasgow and Ireland
O'BRIEN - Glasgow and  Ireland
WATSON - Glasgow
Pat Reid
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Re: Gordon from Enniskillen - Originally Scottish?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 19 August 05 04:15 UTC (UK) »
Nina:
BBC has a good site on the Plantation of Ulster.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/war/plantation/index.shtml
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Ninatoo
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Re: Gordon from Enniskillen - Originally Scottish?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 19 August 05 22:32 UTC (UK) »
Thank you Pat,

That was a very informative site.  Not a very pretty history though.  Makes me hope my Gordons were not involved!  Hopefully they just mosied in afterwards  Undecided.

Nina
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CARSON - Glasgow, Ayr and Ireland
CLARK - Dunbarton
CORR - Glasgow and Ireland
COTTERILL - Glasgow and England
CROMBIE - Glasgow, Ayr and Ireland
DOCHERTY - Glasgow
EASTON - Dunbarton, Renfrew and Glasgow
GLANCY - Glasgow and Ireland
GORDON - Glasgow and Ireland
GRANELLI - Glasgow and Italy
LOGAN - Glasgow and Ireland
MAIN - Fearn, Ross & Cromarty and Glasgow
MCCORMICK - Glasgow and England
MCNICOL - Glasgow and Ireland
O'BRIEN - Glasgow and  Ireland
WATSON - Glasgow
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