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Johnson Hindin Genealogy
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- The name Woodburn is apparently of Scottish origin. It may come from the Scottish term for a small stream--"burn"; hence, wooded burn or tree-lined stream. Woodburn, then, would have been the name given to people living in such an area. The main connection appears to be with the Ayrshire and Dumfries areas of Scotland. There, a George Woodburn was shot for being a Covenanter (Scottish Presbyterians in the 17th cen. who subscribed to various conservative covenants) in 1685. It was not unusual, however, for people from Scotland, in times of religious persecution, to flee to Ireland and England. Thus, for example, there are a number of Woodburns in Pennington Hall, Ulverston, Cumbria Co., England. There, a Robert Woodburne, in 1654, served as the attorney for George Fox, founder of ther Quakers, in acquiring land for the first Quaker cemetery. In Ireland, Carrickfergus Co. in Northern Ireland has an area and a police station bearing the Woodburn name. Despite these connections to England and Ireland, the original Scottish connection seems indisputable.
A Woodburn family lived in Ballintemple, N. Ireland before the seige of Londonderry in 1689 and it is this family with which we are concerned here. Ballintemple is located in County Derry, two miles southwest of Garvagh. The townland occupies 759 acres in the parish of Errigal, Barony of Coleraine.
How the Woodburns came to N. Ireland is a matter of speculation. In the early 1600's, British King James I, who was protestant, attempted once and for all to subjugate the recalcitrant Ulster Catholics. He coloninized the area with English and Scottish loyalists (perhaps including the Woodburns?), who were largely Protestant, resulting in the Protestant majority that exists today in N. Ireland. These so-called Plantations of Ulster included the rebuilding of the city of Derry. The city was renamed Londonderry. In the 1630's, the city had only 2000 inhabitants, but it was the largest city in Ulster.
The Seige of Derry began on April 18, 1689, when deposed British King James II, who was Catholic, and French and Irish forces loyal to him, attempted to secure a base in Ireland from which he could attempt to regain the British throne. The Protestants in Ulster supported King George and Queen Mary and they barricaded themselves in the city and refused to surrender. The seige lasted 105 days and was broken when a relief ship made its way to the city, but the seige left a mark on the city that survives to this day.
The majority of the Scots plantation settlers were from Galloway and Ayrshire in west Scotland. That is probably where the Woodburns of N. Ireland would have come from .The area around Garvagh is predominately Presbyterian and with strong ties still to Scottish culture.
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