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Hi,
I am an American now retired here in Ireland.
This James Barkley was a member of the "Clinton Party" which left Ireland in May of 1729; destination was the port of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania. The ship was the HMS "George and Ann."
I am a direct line decendant of this person but know little about him. The fact is he died while making the sea transit with his family. His wife also died on this journey. Their children: John, James and a younger sister Elizabeth survived, and settled in Orange County, New York in 1730.
What I need to know is the following among other items;
1. Where the father James Barkley was born?
2. His wife's full name including her surname.
3. Where their farmland was located exactly in Lonford as American family records describe it as "one border of which ran down to the Shannon River;"
4. The names of any relations left behind as there is evidence that many were, but there are also suggestions that they many/all may have moved to County Tyrone after 1730.
Any other clues or helps in tracing this family back in Ireland before May of 1729 would be most helpful. They were all Presbyterians, and left Ireland because of draconian Irish laws under which as Presbyterians they believed they were being persecuted by the Crown. And from what I have read in Irish records about !The Great Presbyterian Exodus of 1729," they certainly had every reason to so believe.
Thank you.
Hartley Barclay
Luogh North,
County Clare,
Republic of Ireland
hbarclay@iolfree.ie
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