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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Mcwilliams of county londonderry
« on: Sunday 20 October 24 17:30 BST (UK)  »
I would imagine the origin is from someone named William who split off from the McCathmhaoil or a branch thereof.  Who knows when they came to the area from Clogher.  Some have speculated it was around the time the church was headquartered in Maghers in the 1200s but that is a guess.

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Mcwilliams of county londonderry
« on: Sunday 15 September 24 13:52 BST (UK)  »
Not a planter name.  Local to the Ballinascreen region and pre-plantation

Kenel Farry is Cenel Fearadhaigh.  McCawell/Campbell

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Derry (Londonderry) / Re: Mcwilliams of county londonderry
« on: Friday 07 June 24 04:46 BST (UK)  »
McWilliams is a common surname in south Derry and predates the Plantation in Loughinsholin/Glenconkeyne.  Y DNA is descended from Kenel Ferry

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Ireland / Re: Origin of the surname mcwilliams?
« on: Tuesday 18 June 13 03:47 BST (UK)  »
Here's the quote from Two reports of a deputation who in pursuance of the resolutions of the Court of Assistants of the Draper's Company on the 23rd of January 1817 and the 3rd of August 1818 page 9 (free on Google e-books)
 By Drapers' Company (London, England) 
...the larger part of this Division is in the parish of Balli- nascreen, the residue in the parish of Maghera; it appears probable that the inhabitants of it are descended from Scotch ancestors, who settled there anterior to the Reformation ; the reason for this supposition, as to the period of the settlement being formed, arises from the circumstance of the great proportion of Catho lics above that of Protestants. The difference in the appearance of the inhabitants of the Ballinascreen Division, and the Brackasliav- gallon Division, is very striking, and illus trates the well known distinction between the leading features in the Scotch and Irish cha racters.

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Ireland / Re: Origin of the surname mcwilliams?
« on: Monday 17 September 12 23:32 BST (UK)  »
My McW line is catholic back to the 1600s in Ballinascreen (Derry).  There is a report from a Drapers Company deputation in 1817 which states that the inhabitants of that area, while Catholic, physically resembled the Scots, not the other local Irish.  The report surmised that the inhabitants had migrated to Ireland from Scotland before the Reformation. Possible...  It is a Scottish surname.

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