John Woods of Dunshaughlin - 2020 article about John Wood and John Woods of Ireland

http://dprhcp170.doteasy.com/~tonybeck/files/WoodsFamilyMythsandthe...

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“So far, ​from the actual records we have as probable brothers and sisters of the emigrant generation of Woods,: Michael, Samuel, Andrew, William, Nathan, John, Sarah (married Davis Stockton) and Elizabeth Woods (married Samuel Wallace, Esq​.--chronically mis-identified as “Peter Sr.”, but was a widow when she arrived) and ​we don’t know who David Woods--pew holder along with Nathan, William and Samuel--was.​ We also ​don’t know who Adam and George Woods were​, who arrived as “brothers” in Lancaster County in 1747, from a county history, or ​who was Thomas Woods​, who arrived, or came of age, just before 1744, and settled near Andrew Woods.”

http://dprhcp170.doteasy.com/~tonybeck/files/WoodsFamilyMythsandthe...

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“So far, ​from the actual records we have as probable brothers and sisters of the emigrant generation of Woods,: Michael, Samuel, Andrew, William, Nathan, John, Sarah (married Davis Stockton) and Elizabeth Woods (married Samuel Wallace, Esq​.--chronically mis-identified as “Peter Sr.”, but was a widow when she arrived) and ​we don’t know who David Woods--pew holder along with Nathan, William and Samuel--was.​ We also ​don’t know who Adam and George Woods were​, who arrived as “brothers” in Lancaster County in 1747, from a county history, or ​who was Thomas Woods​, who arrived, or came of age, just before 1744, and settled near Andrew Woods.”

“From the pages and pages of foregoing records, ​the conclusion must be that Michael, Samuel, John, etc. Woods were NOT born in County Meath​, but were born in either Antrim near Belfast, where their father was a landowner, or in the north of County Down on Hamilton of Clanboye lands where their father could have been either a tenant or was buying land through a mortgage issued by the Hamilton Earls/Countesses of Clanbrassil. ...

he Earl of Abercorn had lands in and around Paisley in Ayrshire, as well as West Dumbartonshire and South Lanarkshire. This suggests that before the Woods were in the Antrim-Down area of Ireland, they were in western Scotland