More McCord Ancestry notes

And notes from McCord Ancestry sites:

JOHN DUNCAN MCCORD

John, was born about 1660, and was in the siege of Derry (now Londonderry, Northern Ireland) with King William's men in 1689, and was in many other battles. John's wife was Mary McDougal. John became clan chieftan at the death of his father. They moved to Ireland about 1688 as part of the great Ulster Plantation, when Scots and Englishmen were sent to oust Irish landowners. These McCords settled in Stewartstown, CountyTyrone. "

JOHN DUNCAN MACKORDA

JOHN TOOK OVER THE CLAN CHIEFTAN AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, JAMES MACKORDE. JOHN FOUGHT IN MANY WARS BEFORE HIS OWN DEATH. EMIGRATED TO COUNTY TYRONE ULSTER PROVINCE IRELAND WITH HIS SEVEN SONS.

THEY SEEMED TO CHANGE THE SPELLING OF MACKORDE TO MACCORDE AROUND 1705.

ANOTHER VERSION COMES FROM AN OLD MCCORD NOTEBOOK WRITTEN BY A T. J. MCCORD FROM SPLIT LOG,MO. (SOMETIME IN THE 1800s) IT STATES THAT JOHN DUNCAN DIED IN 1715 AND IT WAS THEN THAT  HIS SEVEN SONS MOVED TO IRELAND AND DROPPED THE "A" FROM MACCORD AND CHANGED IT TO MCCORD.

They moved to Ireland after 1689,  Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland shortly after the Battle of Killiecrankie (1689), John (McCord, son of James McCord of the Isle of Skye) and his wife, (along) with his infant brother James McCord, left Scotland, settling in Stewartstown, County Tyrone, Ireland, where, it is said, they had relatives.

About John

 After his father was killed in the Battle of Killiecrankie in Scotland in 1689, John took the rest of the clan and moved them to Ulster in Northern Ireland. They lived here until about 1740, when they came to America.

Dundee's Rising in Scotland

On 16 April 1689　John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, raised James' standard on the hilltop of　Dundee Lawwith fewer than 50 men in support. Although Presbyterian historians later labelled him "Bluidy Clavers" for his vicious persecution of　Covenanters, he has also been called "Bonnie Dundee". (This was from a song written by SirWalter Scott in 1830.) James had already arrived in Ireland and his letter was on the way promising Irish troops to assist the rising in Scotland.

At first Viscount Dundee had difficulty in raising many supporters. The ineffectiveness of the Williamite commander Major-General　Hugh Mackay　of Scourie encouraged support. Two hundred Irish troops successfully landed at　Kintyre　to add to Dundee's forces. Dundee also received support in the western　Scottish Highlands　from both　Roman Catholic　and　Church of Scotland　clans.

By July the Jacobites had eight battalions and two companies, almost all Highlanders. Dundee gained the confidence of the　clans　by cultivating the allegiance of each Highlander and respecting the precedence of the clans. He realized that to them, the cause of Jacobitism was secondary. At a time when infantry were trained to fight in formation, the Highlanders' method was more informal. They set aside their　plaids　and other encumbrances before the battle, and dropped to the ground to avoid enemy volleys. After quickly returning fire, they pursued their foes, screaming in the　Highland charge. They used heavy　broadswords　and　targe　(shield), or whatever weapons they had, including pitchforks or　Lochaber axes(a combined axe and spear on a long pole). Such a charge was devastating to troops struggling to reform their lines, or fix the recently introduced 'plug' bayonets.

The Highland charge (and troop strength) defeated a larger lowland Scots force at the　Battle of Killiecrankieon 27 July 1689. About one-third of the Highlanders were killed in the fighting, and Dundee died in the battle. At the street fighting of the　Battle of Dunkeld　on 21 August, the Jacobite Highlanders were decisively defeated by the　Cameronians. Much of the North remained hostile to the English government. Expeditions to subdue the highlands were met with a series of skirmishes.

notes taken from McCord sites. 7/13/2010

Much of this information above is covered in Michael McCord's 1996 book, The McCord Saga.  In it he goes generation by generation,  using as source LDS information often, with many "unknown" wives and children listed.  But my ancestor John McCord, born around 1702 is included as a son of John Duncan MacCord or MacKorda (BIRTH 1660 • Argyle, , Skye, Scotland, DEATH 1715 • Stewartstown, Tyrone,  Ireland) and his wife Mary MacDougall.  John is their fourth son, with William, James and Benjamin being older.

This book is quoted HERE at Family Tree Maker.

Here's what is said about John McCord:

6. JOHN4 MCCORD (JOHN DUNCAN3 MACCORDE, JAMES DUNCAN2 MACKORDA, JOHN1) (Source: McCord Family Assoc. Web Page.) 

was born Abt. 1702 in Ireland or Scotland, and died 1762 in Paxton, near Derry, PA.

He married UNKNOWN.   More About JOHN MCCORD:

Church: 1733, Spring Creek Presbyterian Church in Derry, PA (now Hershey, PA)

Emigration: 1720, from Ireland (family originally from Scotland)

Settled: Aft. 1720, Hanover Co., PA (which was originally in Lancaster Co., PA)

I like hearing there's a McCord Family Assoc. Web Page...but I don't know where it is.

So my ancestor, John is first generation in America, and was born either in Ireland or Scotland (as just mentioned above, but not in my ancestry tree.)  His father James Duncan McCord had changed his name from MacKorda when moving to Ireland.  

Now Ancestry has added enough information that I see the next generation back gives a title of Sir James Duncan MacKorda, Clan Chief.  He's the one who died at the battle.  But there seems to be a little information that his father had been a John MacKorda, born around 1600 in Argyle, Isle Skye, Scotland, where he died in unknown year.  His wife was Mary Allison (1602-?_)

Now James MacKorda married Mary Sarah MacDougall of the clan MacDugall (22 FEB 1664 • Argyle, , Skye, Scotland - 1725) Here's a portrait of someone in the tartan of that clan...perhpas Mary Sarah, perhaps not.

I must stop this never ending search for the next believable ancestor.  

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