My Irish ancestor (Mathew Lyle) came to America in 1740. Settled in the Cumberland gap in Va.. then into NC and Georgia. They left Irland when their land lease was up and they couldn't afford to stay on the land. In America, they received land lot.
My 9th great Grandfather Stephen Bailey passed in 1660 in Westmoreland Virginia. 8th great Grandfather James Bailey born 1814 to 1895 he Married Elizabeth Betsy Garrison of Lee county Virginia in 1832.
My ancestors came to Jamestown in 1658 from county Longford Ireland . They were Brian o’farrell age 33 and his son Hubbard Hubert Ferrell . Brian and his wife died in 1663 and his son died in 1676 during Bacons Rebellion. What would have ben the circumstances that led them to Jamestown?
I had a great granduncle, Christopher Hussey, who went to America in 1851, he left Co. Westmeath, after his father had taken land from which a previous tenant had been evicted. The previous tenents family hired men (Ribbonmen) to kill the Hussey's. Christopher had been a witness to the attack in which a relative was shot. Christopher was sent to America to avoid testifying, as the Hussey's feared a further attack.. He went to America via Liverpool. He spent two years in New York and New Haven CT, before in 1853 relocating to Virginia. He was a labourer (probably on the railways), and got US citizenship in 1855 in Ohio Co. By 1860 he was living at Covington Virginia, and in 1861 he joined the Virginia Hibernians as a Private. The company was company B of the 27th Virginia (Stonewall brigade). He fought for 2 years and died at Winchester Virginia in june of 1863 of heart disease. His brother Patrick was my great grandfather. I grew up hearing some of this story, but I put more of it together through research in the last few years.
Surely the Master had enough Black male slaves to impregnate the females, “he didn’t have to do it himself”. With reference to Sean o Callaghan’s book “To Hell or Barbados” the Masters of smaller / lesser holdings are said to have used Black male slaves to mate with the Irish indentured females, whom they regarded as useless workers in the hot conditions of Barbados. The children born to these women were slaves by law, which in turn enslaved the women/mothers as they were not prepared to abandon there offspring
The guy Krebs that was talking about West Virginia isn't entirely accurate. There were many coal mines in Virginia that's still part of Virginia today , many of those coal miners were my relatives as were many on the West Virginia side . The aristocrats may have looked down on miners but not all of the people on the Virginia side did , Southwestern Virginia in particular had a ton of coal mines , some of which have been closed down for many years but some still remain open despite the others that were closed back in 2009 2010 and those of us who come from mining families are proud of that just as the people from our area who weren't miners are proud of the coal miners , it's hard way of life but it generally paid well and when a man took up that occupation to provide for his family nobody had any ill words to say about his occupation. Miners in that area typically work anything from 50 to 80 hours a week and would gross anything from 67,000 dollars a years to nearly if not a tad over 100,000 a year depending on their job and bonuses provided at Christmas time and on occasion Thanksgiving . There are mines on the Virginia side that I know for certain produced coal in the 1800s one of which was located on the other side of a wee creek that I could chuck a stone at from my front yard and hit it without putting any effort into it . It would seem to me that that gentleman has a strange way of viewing Virginians and has a tendency to lump us all together which creates inaccuracies such as the statement he made.....there are some here whose families have been in Southwestern Virginia since the mid to late 1700s who are either Scottish, Irish, or Scots Irish or Welsh or a mixture of the above....some are German and English heritage , but many if not the majority were Scottish or Irish . As to the slavery portion , yea it's a touchy subject for some and not for others . I can say with certainty that there were most definitely Irish slaves and there were Irish slaves in Virginia as I have a Irish lass in my family genealogy on my mother's side who was a slave , not indentured servant , an actual slave . Now she wasn't a slave her entire life but she was a slave and only obtained her freedom because a young lad had taken it upon himself to steal her from her owner and married her so that she could be free , had it not been for him she would have remained a slave . I also happen to know where a cemetery is located which houses the bones of both Irish , mixed , and African slaves all of whom are my ancestors is some form or fashion and there are very few who know the location of this cemetery because it has been long forgotten due to the refusal of our older family members to speak of it. They either play dumb when asked about it or they become angry and refuse to talk about it. It's overgrown now with trees and briar bushes and vines but it isn't entirely forgotten by those of us who know it's location, it's sad that it wasn't kept up , but at least the ones buried there are resting in peace undisturbed by the rest of society. There are many nae sayers when it comes to the topic of whether or not there were Irish slaves here , regardless of them some of us know for sure that it is a matter of fact rather than guess or falsehood . On my mother's side we have the Newberry Griffith Meadow and Wright (MacIntyre/ Mac an tSaor) and Wallace and on my fathers side Looney Blankenship and Owens (MacEoghain) of Cineál Eoghain , which to the best of my research is a direct descendants from Clann MacNeill and Uí Neill (O'Neil) through Eoghain O'Neil (O'Neal) and according to the same research would also make us direct relatives of Cineál Conall (O'Connell /Chonaill) of Tír Chonaill . Through much reading also relates us to MacGowan's Sweeney's MacKeown's and a few others . The original families from my area were overwhelmingly Scottish Irish and Scots Irish and a grand majority were coal mining families .
I was hooked and couldn't stop listening. Beautiful work and representation. Míle buíochas, a Chaoimhín.
My Irish ancestor (Mathew Lyle) came to America in 1740. Settled in the Cumberland gap in Va.. then into NC and Georgia. They left Irland when their land lease was up and they couldn't afford to stay on the land. In America, they received land lot.
My 9th great Grandfather Stephen Bailey passed in 1660 in Westmoreland Virginia. 8th great Grandfather James Bailey born 1814 to 1895 he Married Elizabeth Betsy Garrison of Lee county Virginia in 1832.
I also have record of grandfather John Bailey born 1664 to 1736 married Elizabeth walker 1685.
My ancestors came to Jamestown in 1658 from county Longford Ireland . They were Brian o’farrell age 33 and his son Hubbard Hubert Ferrell . Brian and his wife died in 1663 and his son died in 1676 during Bacons Rebellion.
What would have ben the circumstances that led them to Jamestown?
Hubert Ferrells wife was Dorthy Drew Farrell , she died in 1673 and her grave stone is the oldest in St. Paul’s church in Norfolk va
I had a great granduncle, Christopher Hussey, who went to America in 1851, he left Co. Westmeath, after his father had taken land from which a previous tenant had been evicted. The previous tenents family hired men (Ribbonmen) to kill the Hussey's. Christopher had been a witness to the attack in which a relative was shot. Christopher was sent to America to avoid testifying, as the Hussey's feared a further attack.. He went to America via Liverpool. He spent two years in New York and New Haven CT, before in 1853 relocating to Virginia. He was a labourer (probably on the railways), and got US citizenship in 1855 in Ohio Co. By 1860 he was living at Covington Virginia, and in 1861 he joined the Virginia Hibernians as a Private. The company was company B of the 27th Virginia (Stonewall brigade). He fought for 2 years and died at Winchester Virginia in june of 1863 of heart disease. His brother Patrick was my great grandfather. I grew up hearing some of this story, but I put more of it together through research in the last few years.
John Bailey born 1720 to 1779 Married to Catherine Wright
How does one contact Prof. Donleavy?
i heard about a washington letter to the irish people
Surely the Master had enough Black male slaves to impregnate the females, “he didn’t have to do it himself”. With reference to Sean o Callaghan’s book “To Hell or Barbados” the Masters of smaller / lesser holdings are said to have used Black male slaves to mate with the Irish indentured females, whom they regarded as useless workers in the hot conditions of Barbados. The children born to these women were slaves by law, which in turn enslaved the women/mothers as they were not prepared to abandon there offspring
The guy Krebs that was talking about West Virginia isn't entirely accurate. There were many coal mines in Virginia that's still part of Virginia today , many of those coal miners were my relatives as were many on the West Virginia side . The aristocrats may have looked down on miners but not all of the people on the Virginia side did , Southwestern Virginia in particular had a ton of coal mines , some of which have been closed down for many years but some still remain open despite the others that were closed back in 2009 2010 and those of us who come from mining families are proud of that just as the people from our area who weren't miners are proud of the coal miners , it's hard way of life but it generally paid well and when a man took up that occupation to provide for his family nobody had any ill words to say about his occupation. Miners in that area typically work anything from 50 to 80 hours a week and would gross anything from 67,000 dollars a years to nearly if not a tad over 100,000 a year depending on their job and bonuses provided at Christmas time and on occasion Thanksgiving . There are mines on the Virginia side that I know for certain produced coal in the 1800s one of which was located on the other side of a wee creek that I could chuck a stone at from my front yard and hit it without putting any effort into it . It would seem to me that that gentleman has a strange way of viewing Virginians and has a tendency to lump us all together which creates inaccuracies such as the statement he made.....there are some here whose families have been in Southwestern Virginia since the mid to late 1700s who are either Scottish, Irish, or Scots Irish or Welsh or a mixture of the above....some are German and English heritage , but many if not the majority were Scottish or Irish . As to the slavery portion , yea it's a touchy subject for some and not for others . I can say with certainty that there were most definitely Irish slaves and there were Irish slaves in Virginia as I have a Irish lass in my family genealogy on my mother's side who was a slave , not indentured servant , an actual slave . Now she wasn't a slave her entire life but she was a slave and only obtained her freedom because a young lad had taken it upon himself to steal her from her owner and married her so that she could be free , had it not been for him she would have remained a slave . I also happen to know where a cemetery is located which houses the bones of both Irish , mixed , and African slaves all of whom are my ancestors is some form or fashion and there are very few who know the location of this cemetery because it has been long forgotten due to the refusal of our older family members to speak of it. They either play dumb when asked about it or they become angry and refuse to talk about it. It's overgrown now with trees and briar bushes and vines but it isn't entirely forgotten by those of us who know it's location, it's sad that it wasn't kept up , but at least the ones buried there are resting in peace undisturbed by the rest of society. There are many nae sayers when it comes to the topic of whether or not there were Irish slaves here , regardless of them some of us know for sure that it is a matter of fact rather than guess or falsehood . On my mother's side we have the Newberry Griffith Meadow and Wright (MacIntyre/ Mac an tSaor) and Wallace and on my fathers side Looney Blankenship and Owens (MacEoghain) of Cineál Eoghain , which to the best of my research is a direct descendants from Clann MacNeill and Uí Neill (O'Neil) through Eoghain O'Neil (O'Neal) and according to the same research would also make us direct relatives of Cineál Conall (O'Connell /Chonaill) of Tír Chonaill . Through much reading also relates us to MacGowan's Sweeney's MacKeown's and a few others . The original families from my area were overwhelmingly Scottish Irish and Scots Irish and a grand majority were coal mining families .