My ancestors came from aughrim . Some of them stayed .Albert awarded estate on the site of the battlefield. He had one son robert. robert had 3 sons mathew, andrew, robert. robert and andrew stayed in aughrim.robert had 4 sons david,came to america, gilbert was imprisoned,robert was beheaded samuel escaped to scotland.Does any one know what was going on around there in late 1700s Our information says plot against catholic rule in area . No one has much informatin on our family in ireland ...................thanks to any one who has information
Thursday 4th Apr 2013, 12:40AM
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Hi Patricia,
This timeline is from Ron Kavana's Irish Ways, The Story Of Ireland in song, music, and poetry.
- 1607: O'Neill & fellow Earls flee to Europe from Lough Swilly in the Flight of the Earls.
- 1609: Plantation Articles grant confiscated lands of Earls - almost all of Ulster - to Protestant colonists.
- 1641: Rebellious assaults upon the settler population by embittered & dispossessed natives.
- 1649: English Civil War ends. Cromwell puts Drogheda & Wexford to sword, dispossesses almost all Catholic landowners in country of a total of 11 million acres in "To Hell or Connaught" campaign.
- 1685: James II succees English throne. Feared by Protestants to be Catholic sympathiser.
- 1689: William of Orange replaces James after invitation from leading members of Parliament
- 1690: James rallies with French aid but Jacobites defeated by William at Boyne & Aughrim
- 1691: Treaty of Limerick allows Sarsfield & troops to sail for Europe in the Flight of Wild Geese.
- 1695 to 1729: Passing of Penal Laws against Catholics &, to a slightly lesser extent, Dissenters, in blatant contravention of terms of Treaty of Limerick which guaranteed no religious persecution.
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I think you are needing to read about the Penal laws. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_Laws_(Ireland)
All the best,
James McNamara
Feakle liaison, feakle@irelandxo.com
Friday 5th Apr 2013, 04:29AM