This is just a small supplement with an additional “O’Neil” curiosity..., but before I start, I’d like to stress that this is not a genealogy post, as the details provided are simply to get a better understanding concerning place-names, family names and dates.
Note: Despite 3 army stints in Belfast and one in Londonderry, I had to use Google Maps to find Raithlin Island ! As such, I now know that you could just about swim from the Island to Southend !!!
>>>> Archibald Black b1797 in Ireland: Civil parish Campbeltown... Address; Wide Clos
s:
>>>> Son Daniel Black b1835 in Raithlin Island, Antrim Ireland.
• (1861 census) Address; O’Neils Land:
• (1891 census) Address; Ferguson’s Land (Longrow St.)
>>>> Daughter Agnes Black b1870 Campbeltown: Husband... Felix
O’Neil:
Note: Agnes’s father-in-law was Arthur O’Neil b1798 in Tyrone Ireland, and died in Campbeltown..., wife Bridget McGeehan. (“large families”)
I’ve not had the time to do much research with the Blacks, but I believe the majority of Agnes’s brothers and sisters disappeared to New York.
Nonetheless, there seems to be too much of a coincidence of her family name, eventually giving way to a place name in Campbeltown !
Flemings Land.
Ferguson’s Land.
O’Neil’s Land;
..., this “Land” aspect..., is it traditional throughout Scotland, or is it a Campbeltonian idiosyncrasy ?
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Added info:
I've just had a look at what Emdee mentioned in 2010..., quote:
Re: Fleming's Land
Postby EMDEE » Sat Sep 11, 2010 12:47 am
Just as an aside, In my younger days used to wonder why this building was named "Fleming's Land". I have since discovered that in the Scots language a "land" is a tenement building.