Does anyone have information about what church records may be available for the Cherry Fork Presbyterian Church, in Cherry Fork, Adams County, Ohio? I am interested in obtaining marriage records from the 1870s and wonder if they exist. I've contacted the church directly, without any luck.
From what I've read and the way I understand it, what we call the
Scotch-Irish were Scottish people, almost totally Presbyterian, who fled or
were forced from Scotland to Ireland because of persecution by the Church of
England in Scotland. They stayed pretty much to themselves, formed their own
little communities in Ireland, and eventually, many of them emigrated to
America.
While I'd imagine that a few of them intermingled with the Catholic
Irish, for the most part they stayed amongst their own. The te
Hi Linda and others
On 18 Feb 2001, at 12:05, Linda Crawford wrote:
> I would be interested in those names also,maybe it could be posted to the
> list. Thank You. Linda Crawford
There is a book by Robert Bell entitled _ The Book of Scots-Irish Family
Names_ available at any Borders Bookstore. It was first published as
the Book of Ulster Surnames in 1988. ISNB is 0-85640-602-3.
Regards,
Donna Ristenbatt
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The Presbyterian Historical Society of the Southwest, comprising the states of AR, LA, TX, and OK, and the PCUSA and the Cumberland Church and attempting to collect and protect records of all branches of Presbyterianism, will hold it's annual meeting and seminar on March 9 & 10th, at the First Presbyterian Church of Little Rock, AR. There will be representatives from the Menaul Historical Library in Albuquerque, The Historical Foundation of the Cumberland Presbyterian Churrch in Memphis, and the Presbyter
Does anyone know a source that might provide some sort of list of family
names of Presbyterians who moved to Northern Ireland from the lowlands of
Scotland in the great settlements of the 1600s?
There seems to be a general belief that the great mass of Presbyterians who
moved from Northern Ireland to American in the 1700s were of solid Scottish
background. But there sure were a lot of Presbyterians in the colonies with
Irish names, mine being one of them. I believe that quite a few Catholic
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