William Ewing Sr. (1625 - 1718)

Born 1625 in Stirlingshire, Scotland

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Milford) Ewing — married 1643 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died Feb 1718 at about age 93 in Londonderry, Province of Ulster, Ireland

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Biography

William Ewing was born in Scotland in the early 1600's and brought his family to Ulster, Ireland when the children were very young; he died in Ireland.^[1]

His children were;^[2]

Robert

William

William Ewing Sr.^[3]

William, and his wife, Eliza, were among the multitude of Protestant Scots who emigrated to Ireland, to escape religious persecution. William settled his wife, and sons, in Ulster, Ireland. He was from the Stirling Castle area in the lowlands of Scotland. The lowlands held many people of the Ewing surname, in all the variant spellings, such as MacEwen, Ewan, Yeoman, and the predominant Ewing. And, the choice of given names seems to have been narrow. Although it is tempting to go back farther in time than 1600 and William, there are simply too many Clan Ewing named Robert, William, Charles, James, and Alexander to be certain of any accuracy.

It appears to be generally agreed that all of William's children were born in Ulster, Ireland, by reason of which his descendants are known as Scotch-Irish. Almost universally the Ewings of Irish birth are as 'purely' Scotch as those born in Scotland. County Coleraine is the place most usually indicated as the paternal home of William's children. This was the conclusion of Col. Wm. A. Ewing and he so indicated on his chart. But records in Ireland, studied in recent years, furnish names of those born in other than Coleraine, corresponding to those of this William's children, and gives some ground for concluding that they were natives of the barony of Quisowen in County Donegal, Ireland.

Jno. G. Ewing expressed the opinion that from Quisowen "all the Ewings of the early emigration," whose ancestors he could trace, "drew their origin." Both locations [Coleraine and Quisowen] are in Ulster and not far from historic Londonderry.

All the traditions agree that this William Ewing, who came from Scotland to Ireland, and his first wife, had but one child, Nathaniel, born about 1693 in Ireland as were his half-brothers and sister.

Eliza Milford is listed as William's second wife and her children with William are listed as John, Joshua, Samuel, Moses and Henry; and says that "all settled in Cecil County, Maryland, except John, who located in the southwestern corner of Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the east side of the Octorora Creek, near the others, and afterwards went to Ohio, and then to Kentucky, with a large family.

Hon. P: K. Ewing, in "The Ewing Genealogy," page 7, gives as this second family, "William, Joshua, James. Samuel and Anne, and possibly other children." [It will be helpful if we bear in mind that this William was not the William who located in what is now Rockingham County, Virginia, most certainly. As seen elsewhere, that pioneer Wlllliam of Rockingham probably was born in Scotland.]

Research Notes

Known children of William Ewing and Elizabeth are: ^[4]

1. Robert b.circa1650 in Scotland,
2. William III b.circa1655 near Stirling Castle, Scotland who died in Ulster, Ireland,
3. Francis born in Londonderry, Ireland,
4. Patrick

Sources

1. ↑ Ewing – McCulloch – Buchanan Genealogy
2. ↑ Ewing – McCulloch – Buchanan Genealogy
3. ↑ Source: #S403 Ancestry Family Trees http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=10472739&pid=-533966401
4. ↑ https://www.geni.com/people/Elizabeth-Ewing/6000000000595073193

• Brown, Marguerite and Vernon; Ewing – McCulloch – Buchanan Genealogy. Dallas, Texas: Royal Publishing Company, 1957.

• Elbert William R. (Elbert William Robinson) Ewing. Clan Ewing of Scotland, early history and contribution to America; sketches of some family pioneers and their times

• Source: S403 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; NOTEThis information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.

• The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:SGLV-5M8 : accessed 2016-10-22), entry for William (Baron) /Ewing/.