Ulster Scots Before 1761

[mgeneas]

Several families sailed from Londonderry to Nova Scotia on the ship Hopewell in 1761.Some of the family names are CROW, BARNHILL FULTON

Are there likely to be any records to be found of the families in Ireland before they left?

[aghadowey]

You could check here-
http://www.dippam.ac.uk/ied/records/25624

Added- this page says no passenger list survives-
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NOVA-SCOTIA/1998-07/0900769996

I suspect thre will be more information in Canadian archives rather than in the U.K.

[hallmark]

A quick google   "Hopewell  1761"   shows various results


e.g
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~ab443/irish.html

[aghadowey]

Several families sailed from Londonderry to Nova Scotia on the ship Hopewell in 1761.Some of the family names are CROW, BARNHILL FULTON

Are there likely to be any records to be found of the families in Ireland before they left?

If you are looking for details of a particular family then you probably need to know their religion and more importantly where they lived. However, very few church and other records for that period survive.

[mgeneas]

Thank you for all those links.

My grandchildren are descended from the 3 families that I named.
But we are far from the Nova Scotia archives, we do have a book published in 1873 with details of the families from 1761 until then. It was written by Thomas Miller also a descendent.

I was afraid that there would be no early church records in Ireland surviving. I think most of them were Presbyterian.

[aghadowey]

Where in N.S. did those families settle? might be something in PANS, etc.

[mgeneas]

They settled in Colchester county in the vicinity of the towns of Londonderry and Truro.

[madaboutmaps]

You might find more looking up the townlands around Londonderry: see
https://www.barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/irish/crow/ (see the single mark on Inishowen) and
https://www.barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/irish/barnhill/.
Less useful is https://www.barrygriffin.com/surname-maps/irish/fulton/ but there's a significant cluster around Londonderry