Tag: Ulster

A Kerr Family of Ulster, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina: Launching a Study of a New Family Line

September 2, 2026

Or, Subtitled: “Samuel Kerr a Chd. Bapd. named Samuel” With this posting, I’m launching a new series in which I’ll be climbing up my ancestral lines on a line I haven’t yet explored in detail. When I inaugurated this blog back in 2018, my primary goal was to take my over forty years of genealogical … More A Kerr Family of Ulster, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and South Carolina: Launching a Study of a New Family Line

Margaret Dinsmore (1747-1806?) and Son John Dinsmore (1774-1858): Wayne County, Kentucky, Land Grant Records — Additional Information

August 26, 2026

Or, Subtitled: “Agreebly to an act of aſsembly for Settling and improving the Vacant lands of this Commonwealth” The information I’m posting below supplements and expands on a previous discussion of the Kentucky land grant that John Dinsmore received after the Dinsmore family moved in 1800 from Spartanburg County, South Carolina, to Wayne County, Kentucky. … More Margaret Dinsmore (1747-1806?) and Son John Dinsmore (1774-1858): Wayne County, Kentucky, Land Grant Records — Additional Information

Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family

June 1, 2024

About Patrick Colhoun, the immigrant ancestor and father of Ezekiel Calhoun and his siblings Mary (Noble), James, William, and Patrick Calhoun, not a great deal is known with certainty. What researchers have thought they’ve known over the years has often turned out to be wrong, as such scant documentary evidence as we now have about … More Patrick Colhoun of County Donegal, Ireland (Died 1740/1, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania): Immigrant Progenitor of the South Carolina Long Cane Calhoun Family

David Dinsmore, Ulster-Scots Loyalist in South Carolina and Nova Scotia Exile: Every Life Worth a Novel (8)

January 28, 2023

Or, Subtitled: New Documents Casting New Light on Old Mysteries And now another addendum to a series of postings from the past — these tracking the life of my ancestor David Dinsmore, who was born in Ulster in 1750, arrived from Belfast with his wife Margaret aboard the Earl of Donegal in Charleston, South Carolina, on 10 … More David Dinsmore, Ulster-Scots Loyalist in South Carolina and Nova Scotia Exile: Every Life Worth a Novel (8)