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Origins, Ancestry & Descendants of the Henderson Family of Megantic County, Quebec
This book has taken a novel approach, in that the writers had the benefit of the DNA test results of four Henderson descendants of Megantic County.
This made it possible to follow their ethnicity from Norwegian Vikings to northern Scotland around the year 1,000 (probably intermarried with Picts soon after), onward to the Henderson Barons and Baronets of Fordell, Fifeshire, Scotland beginning in 1216, with our Megantic County Hendersons emigrating much later to Aghaloo Parish, County Tyrone, before some of them moved on in the 1820s to Megantic County, Quebec, Canada, while other branches remained in Aghaloo parish, and elsewhere in Ulster. The publication includes several hundred primary records and old photographs. Evans Books, 2022, Gwen Barry and Dale Wright, 515 page.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction 5Thank You 8
Abbreviations 10
PART I – HENDERSON ORIGINS & MIGRATIONS
Introduction 11
Origins of the Surname Henderson 12
Where in Scotland Did Our Hendersons Originate 14
When Did the Hendersons Leave Scotland for Ireland? 20
About Aghaloo Parish, Co. Tyrone & Tynan Parish, Co. Armagh 38
Churches Serving the Eastern Half of Aghaloo Parish, and Tynan Parish 41
Land Ownership of Aghaloo Parish and Tynan Parish 43
Photos and Maps of Aghaloo and Tynan Parishes 44
Photos and Maps of Megantic County 52
Arrival of the Hendersons in Megantic County 59
Pedigree Collapse - Cousin Marriages 62
Migration Schemes out of Megantic County 68
PART II - GENEALOGY OF THE HENDERSONS OF IRELAND, MEGANTIC CO. & BEYOND
Head of the Family – WILLIAM or JAMES Henderson? & MARYANNE EDWARDS? 75
BRANCH A – JAMES HENDERSON & MARGARET HAMILTON BALLANTYNE 82
BRANCH B – MARTHA HENDERSON & JAMES BOWMAN 95
BRANCH C – THOMAS HENDERSON & NANCY AGNES REID 130
BRANCH D – WILLIAM EDWARD HENDERSON & SUSANNAH DAVIDSON 179
BRANCH E – WILSON HENDERSON & SUSANNAH MITCHELL 269
BRANCH F – MARY ANN HENDERSON & HENRY RALSTON II 377
BRANCH G – SARAH HENDERSON 422
Appendix I - Miscellaneous Hendersons of Special Interest 423
Appendix II - The Families of Forbes, Williamson, Donaghy, McCutcheon, Wright, 455
Davidson, Marshall, and Little/Ralston
Appendix III – The Families of Omnes, Buelno, Espinosa, Valencia, and Castro 482
Appendix IV – The Hendersons of Fifeshire, Scotland 496-515
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