Hon. John McCurdy

1810 -

• Name	John McCurdy  [1]
  Prefix	Hon.
  Birth	Abt. 1810	Clogher, Billy, Antrim, Ireland   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I144	McCurdy Genealogy
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2024

  
  

  Father	Samuel McCurdy,   b. 1780, Cavan, Billy, Antrim, Ireland
  Family ID	F39	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	1. Mr. McCurdy
  Family ID	F40	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Dec 2024

  
  

• Notes

  In a letter written by the late Hon. John McCurdy of Shippensburg, PA., dated February 12th, 1877, may be found the following extract: “If you take a general atlas and turn to the map of Ireland, you will find the Giant’s Causeway on the extreme northern coast of County Antrim. West of the Causeway, and east of the river Bann, you will find a small stream which runs due north, and empties into the ocean near the Causeway. This stream is called the Bush River. On this river, about one mile from its mouth, there is a village containing about 1,000 inhabitants. The name of this place is Bushmills. Just outside of the town, about a quarter of a mile distant, there is a farm called “Clouther.’ On this farm I was born. A short distance east of Bush River, about a mile nearly south of Bushmills, there is a farm called the ‘Caven,’ the southern boundary of which is within a hundred years of Billy Church, where very many of the McCurdys are buried. This ‘Caven’ farm is said to be the one on which the McCurdys settled when they emigrated from Scotland. There my great-grandfather Samuel [son of John, son of Petheric.-Ed.], and my grandfather Alexander, lived and died. My Uncle James held it from the time of my grandfather’s death in 1828, until 1874, when he died. Until very recently I thought this property was held by the family in fee simple; but I have discovered that they held it on life-leases. Two of my cousins hold either the whole or a part of it now. Ahoghil, from which your great-grandfather came, is about six or seven miles from the ‘Caven.’” source: Blanchard, Henry Percy. The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History. London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, Covenant Publishing Company, 1930.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] Henry Percy Blanchard, The Ancestral McCurdys: Their Origin and Remote History, (London, UK: Covenant Publishing Company, 1930).