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- "LOVE FAMILY
The "Loves" were a sept., i.e. associated with, the Clan MacKinnon(MacFhionghuin in Gaelic) which held lands on the islands of Mull andSkye off the west coast of Scotland.
The MacKinnon?s claim descent from the same royal line of King Alpineas do the MacGregor?s.
The MacKinnon?s were ("out" in 1715 and again in 1745 in support ofthe Stuart pretenders to the throne of England. On April 16, 1746 theclans were defeated disastrously on the field of Culloden, in thenortheast part of Scotland, by the English, and the clan system cameto an end. Their chief, although old and infirm, was imprisoned inLondon, but was permitted in 1747 to go home. His son, Charles, hadto part with the family estates after they had been in the clanpossession for over four centuries. This may have been the cause ofemigration to Ireland.
The motto of the MacKinnon?s is "Audentes Fortuna Juvat"--FortuneAssists the Daring--their war cry is "Cuimhnich bas Ailpein"--Rememberthe Death of Alpine. MacFhionghuin is Gaelic for "Son of the FairBorn". This was made for Edna Pearce Simpson by Emerson MacGregorDuerr, 262 Myrtle Ave., Elmhurst, Ill." Per the notes of Edna MildredGrant Fiosne. [Transcribed 13 January 2008, SLJuhl RNBSC, Compiler &Family Genealogist; sljuhl1234@yahoo.com]
SOURCE: Family Tree Maker, CD276 Scotch-Irish Settlers in America,1500s-1800s, Scotch Irish Pioneers in Ulster and America, VI, HomeTowns of Ulster Families, 1691-1718, MyFamily.com, February 21, 2008. "...the records of Presbytery and synod were kept with great care,and the latter have been printed to the year 1820. They give the nameof the ruling elder in each congregation for the year of the generalsynod, and often the names of commissioners sent to the synod torepresent local interests. Names of witnesses in cases which camebefore the synod also help to establish the home towns of Presbyterianfamilies. ... The meeting houses stood in the towns here given, butsome parishioners lived in adjoining towns." Page Appendix VI.; Page358:
PRESBYTERIAN CENSUS:
"LOVE, JOHN, W (Witness) 1704 Coleraine ?, , County of Derry, Ulster,Ireland-Presbyterian
JOHN, C (Commissioner) 1715 Ballymoney, County of Antrim, Ulster,Ireland-Presbyterian
ROBERT, C (Commissioner) 1692 Ballymoney, County of Antrim, Ulster,Ireland-Presbyterian."
[Transcribed 22 February 2008, SLJuhl, compiler]
SOURCE: BOOK--SCOTS-IRISH LINKS 1575-1725 PART ONE AND PART TWO, byDavid Dobson; Originally published St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland, 1994;Re-printed, two books in one, for Clearfield Company, Inc. byGenealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland. Excerpts:
"The Plantation of Ulster, particularly by the Scots, during theseventeenth century was the period of maximum settlement there....identifying the original immigrants and their places of origin inScotland, ... The descendants of these early Scottish settlersbecame, in due course, the single most important ethnic group tosettle in America during the eighteenth century - the Scotch-Irish.This fully referenced booklet has been compiled overwhelmingly fromprimary source material located in Scotland ..."
PART ONE-Page 16:
LOVE, JOHN, merchant in Strasbane, 1693. {SRO.RD3.80.151)(STRASBANEis in County Antrim, Ulster, Ireland.
NOTE: THE GENTLEMEN MENTIONED ABOVE ARE PROBABLY THIS FAMILY SINCETHEY DO MEET THE PROFILE OF MERCHANTS, PRESBYTERIAN, AND LIVINGCONTINUALLY IN COUNTY ANTRIM, ULSTER, IRELAND. OF COURSE, MORERESEARCH IS NEEDED TO DISCERN EXACTLY HOW THE FAMILY TRANSLATES INLINEAGE WHILE LIVING IN IRELAND.
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