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Showing posts with label Craighead. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Craighead. Show all posts
Monday, February 19, 2018

The 300th Anniversary of the Scots Irish Diaspora

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The next two years are going to be a very interesting time here in New England as we commemorate the Scots Irish diaspora.  Although a few ...
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Monday, December 8, 2014

How did the Scots Irish celebrate Christmas?

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Why was it that the Scots Irish settlers at Londonderry, New Hampshire spent all night celebrating weddings, but ignored Christmas?  They...
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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Tombstone Tuesday ~ Rev. William Homes and wife, Katherine Craighead, Chilmark, Massachusetts

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These gravestones were photographed at the Abel's Hill Cemetery, Chilmark, Massachusetts, pn the island of Martha's Vineyard by my s...
Saturday, February 22, 2014

Surname Saturday ~ CRAIGHEAD, A family of Scots Irish Presbyterians

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CRAIGHEAD Reverend Robert Craighead received a Master’s degree from St. Andrews University on 15 February 1653.  He went to Northern...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Surname Saturday ~ HOMES of Northern Ireland and Martha's Vineyard

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HOMES William Homes is one of the few ancestors I have who was born in Northern Ireland.  He also has a Londonderry, New Hampshire c...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Surname Saturday ~ ALLEN of Braintree, Massachusetts

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Mount Wollaston, now Quincy, Massachusetts as it appeared in 1840 Although some earlier works stated that Samuel Allen was a son of G...
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Thursday, March 14, 2013

I found an Irish Ancestor!

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My family tree is rather boring.  Everyone is WASPY.  Most arrived in New England with the Great Migration or before 1650, and if they l...
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