« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 05 October 05 15:31 BST (UK) »
Thanks ever so for this Kate - a really useful website. It ties up with some research I have already done here in France.
For the records; the O'Riordans in Nantes & Bordeaux made quite a bit of their money (like most of the businessmen in the area around those days) from the Slave trade. I have some info gleaned from a French doctoral thesis by Patrick Clarke de Dromantin with various Irish-derived names (not just O'Riordans) to support this.
They also served in the Dillon & Walsh regiments.
Regards
Niki
Names researched include Ball, Bone, Butlin, Bradford, Court, Dimond, Dolling, Glenister, Golden, Janner, Mann, Mason, Pike, Quartermaine, Reardon, Rogers, Scott, Sutherland, Talbot, Ulyet, Wing, Wooder. Also Greenhalf, Marriner (marriage related).