Notes from Charles Hanna's The Scotch Irish

The Scotch Irish or The Scot in North Britain, North Ireland, and North America.
by Charles A Hanna
New York and London: GP Putnam's sons, 1902

Note: these are just NOTES and may be difficult to decipher - they are for me too, so long after having read the book.

Appendix Y - Scottish Dignitaries & Members of the Scottish Parliaments...from 1037 to 1707, with dates and order of creation...
p. 441 - John Bothwell - Lord Holyroodhouse, 1607. (189) Extinct?

Appendix X - Families of Scotland
Bothwell - Lanarkshire; lordship of Holyroodhouse
Bothwell, earldom of - Stuart and Hepburn families

   p. 478 - A list of Lord High Admirals of Scotland to 1706
           Adam, Earl of Bothwell 1511 Heritably
           Francis 1583
           James “ and Duke of Orkney 1567 attainted
           Patrick “ - 1502
           Patrick “ - 1544

Appendix Z - Locations of Scottish Families in Ireland
      surnames in Ulster have 4+ entries in birth indexes of 1890 together with number & the registration counties
      first number = whole of Ireland; second = in Ulster;
      the estimated number of persons = number of entries times the average birth rate ; in 1890, average birth rate = 44.8
                  Bothwell 7-6 (doesn’t give county)
                     -> estimated 313.6 in whole of Ireland 268.8 in Ulster

Chapter 39 - The Emigration from Ulster to America
     *after 1688 thousands of Scots -> Ulster - cheap land, trade
      *in 1715, Archbishop Synge estimates 50K since revolution
      *in 1699 the English destroyed the Irish wool industry (to protect English industry)
      *Queen Anne - penal laws - against Presbyterians as well as Catholics (not as severe as against Catholics, but)
      *1704 Test Act - all government people (magistrates, customs, excise, post office, courts of law, municipal officers) must take communion in Established Church -> Scots lost offices - eg Londonderry 10 aldermen, 14 burgesses - ⅔ of the corporation had to resign
      *Fined for preaching, marrying people
      *later, fined for teaching school etc.
           -> Ps majority of population ruled by persecuting minority - churches nailed up
      *1714 - Queen Anne died - plots by Tories to put Pretender on throne [tories = establishment, anti-presbyterian]. Ulstermen favored protestant succession - but nothing happened
      *1715 - a few Presby. won seats - Hercules Rowley - but still no parliamentary protection
      *1716- - 4 Presbys “turned over to Satan by Episcopal authority, for the high crime of being married by their own minister...” p. 620
.....So, they start to leave
      *1718 - both ministers and people going off
      *1728 - “above 4200 men, women & children...West Indies (ie North America (sic)) ... within 3 yrs
      *1740 - famine. for several years afterwards, 12K annually leave Ulster for North America
      *1771-73 - the whole emigration from Ulster estimated at 30K - 10K = weavers

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