Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_of_Connacht The Composition of Connacht, or Composition of Connaught and Thomond, was a 1585 agreement between, on the one hand, the Gaelic and Gaelicised chiefs of Connacht and Thomond and, on the other hand, the English Dublin Castle administration of the Kingdom of Ireland, which replaced the multiple existing levies with a single tax … Read More
In the early 2000s as DNA testing became more popular as an aid for genealogical research, Glenn Allen Nolen ( see https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~nolenancestry/page1.html ) commented on the Y-DNA test results posted at the FamilyTreeDNA.com website. Following is what he had to say about the two major Nolan lines identified through DNA testing. Introduction This forum presents … Read More
Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Wild_Geese Uniform and colonel’s flag of the Regiment of Hibernia in Spanish service, mid-eighteenth century Portumna castle. Wild Geese heritage museum. The Flight of the Wild Geese was the departure of an Irish Jacobite army under the command of Patrick Sarsfield from Ireland to France, as agreed in the Treaty of Limerick on 3 … Read More
Reference Wikipedia post: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Sarsfield,_1st_Earl_of_Lucan Patrick Sarsfield, 1st Earl of Lucan (c. 1655 – August 1693) was an Irish army officer. Fatally wounded at the Battle of Landen on 29 July 1693 while serving in the French Royal Army, he died of his injuries several weeks later, and is now best remembered as an Irish patriot … Read More
In the early 1800s, Lawrence Nowland, born about 1785, worked as a seaman aboard the Honourable East India Company ship “Winchelsea”. In early 1811 he fell sick or was injured and had to be hospitalized on the island of St. Helena, a point along the companies trade route to India. Lawrence did not recover and … Read More
Below are listed outstanding requests for assistance which I have been received since 2024 and which will be acted upon as time permits. However, for the future, I would ask that requests for assistance in resolving Nolan family brick walls be submitted via a new online NolanFamilies Research Group (https://groups.io/g/nolanfamilies) which I created specifically for … Read More
In 2010, on Rootschat, “USjoe” was looking for information on a Conly Nowland born around 1780 in Ireland, perhaps in Co. Wexford, who emigrated to Delaware in the US where he married a Mary Shawan around 1800. Reference: https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=478428.0
On June 5, 1776, John Naulin (alias Nowlane, Noulan, Nowland, Nolan, …), a yoeman, died in Northampton, Pennsylvania at the age of 81. In the referenced record it is stated that he was born in Co. Carlow on 25 May 1695 and baptized in Dunleckney It is also stated that he was married to a … Read More
In the 1895 census for Marcos Paz, Buenos Aires, Argentina, we find a family of Nolans. The family consisted of Guillermo (William) Nolan, aged 60, and his wife Elinor Malone, aged 37, both shown as being born in England, and their children: Elinor Francisca (7), Patricio (6), Lorenzo (4), Gerardina (3) and Eduardo (1). The … Read More
The Irish Brigades in France (1690-1791) “The Irish Brigade (Irish: Briogáid Éireannach, French: Brigade irlandaise) was a brigade in the French Royal Army composed of Irish exiles, led by Lord Mountcashel. It was formed in May 1690 when five Jacobite regiments were sent from Ireland to France in exchange for a larger force of French infantry who were sent to fight in the Williamite War in Ireland. The … Read More
