Hi
I have managed to trace the Kemps line back as far as 1851/61 but need some assistance going back further (if possible). I don't live in Donegal, but in Co. Armagh. Just wondering if anyone can point me in the correct direction.
Have also been wondering if anyone knows where to find ship passenger records that would sailed from Ulster to Scotland during the famine.
Thanks
Philip
There have never been any shipping records for travel from Ulster to Scotland. (It was, and still is, a domestic journey).
There were approximately 3 sailings a week from Derry to Glasgow (usually overnight) and that?s how most people from Donegal went to Scotland. They often came back for the harvest, weddings and the Glasgow Fair fortnight, so you sometimes find baptisms and marriages in Ireland after the family have set up home in Scotland.
thanks for this!
I have tracked the family into scotland, but was surprised to see that they had dropped the 'S' after bout 10 years.
You get a lot of changes like that. McDonnell in Ireland often becomes MacDonald when a family moves to Scotland, Rainey becomes Rennie. And so on. (They are just different versions of the same name anyway). Presumably it was easier to go with local pronunciations which, in Scotland, perhaps didn?t find an ?S? at the end of the name easy to cope with. In Ireland today people often add an ?S? to the end of my surname when there isn?t one. Must be a local thing.
Elwyn Soutter(s)