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The Stockdales - from County Down (Paperback)
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The Stockdales - from County Down (Paperback)
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Loot Price R277
Discovery Miles 2 770
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County Down, named after its county town, Downpatrick, is one of
six counties that form Northern Ireland, situated in the northeast
of the island of Ireland. Adjoined to the southeast shore of Lough
Neagh, It is one of the thirty-two traditional counties of Ireland,
lying within the province of Ulster. More than 9000 years ago, the
first settlers arrived on the shores of Strangford Lough in County
Down. St Patrick is said to have waded ashore at the mouth of the
Slaney River, near Strangford Lough's entrance. It was from the
area around Strangford Lough that Patrick's followers spread
Christianity throughout Ireland. Many of the protestant planters
brought to Ireland, may not have been there of their own choice. To
get a grant of land you first of all had to be well connected to
the rulers of the time. During the Ulster Plantation in 1600, you
had to undertake to plant the land with a given number of people
and build a fortified house or castle. These people became known as
Undertakers. They were for the most part people, who already had
estates in England, so they would have said to some of their
tenants there, "I am going to Ireland would you like to come with
me and I will rent you some land on which to build a house, you can
then start a new life there as a tenant of mine?" If they said,
"No," they would probably have been told to move on. The first
known Stockdales in Northern Ireland and the earliest known with
this surname were three brothers from Yorkshire, north of England
in late 1600s; one brother moved to County Tyrone, next brother
settled in Ballyculter area and third brother settled in
Downpatrick area.
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