Daniel McCurdy (abt. 1648)

Born about 1648 in Isle of Bute, Scotland

Ancestors

Descendants

Died [date unknown] in Derry, Ireland

Biography

On pages 30-31 of his book The Ancestral McCurdys Their Origin and Remote History H. Percy Blanchard relates a dramatic and gripping tale of five brothers who escaped from Scotland in an open boat and found refuge in Ireland. (According to Wikipedia H. Percy Blanchard was a Canadian lawyer and science fiction author who is best known of his novel After the Cataclysm: A Romance of the Age to Come.) The brothers were Petheric, David, William, John, and Daniel McCurdy. A facsimile copy of the book can be seen at

https://ia800905.us.archive.org/27/items/ancestralmccurdy00blan/ancestralmccurdy00blan.pdf

Chapter XII, beginning on page 41, is dedicated to Daniel and some of his descendants. Blanchard says the following about Daniel:

"(E) DANIEL McCURDY, “the Refugee,” the fifth and youngest of the brothers, was born about 1650. He had four sons (with no historic knowledge of any daughters), and they located around Ahoghill and County Derry. To these four sons, then, of Daniel may be assigned the approximate birth-dates: James, born in 1678; Samuel, born in 1682; Thomas, born in 1686; and Daniel, born in 1690."

Sources

See also:

• The Ancestral McCurdys Their Origin and Remote History by H. Percy Blanchard (Covenant Publishing Company, London, 1930)
• Family-Histories and Genealogies by Edward Elbridge Salisbury and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury (1892, privately printed)
• Ancestry Family Tree Text: http://trees.ancestry.com/pt/AMTCitationRedir.aspx?tid=26422540&pid=1358
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• Family-histories and genealogies : containing a series of genealogical and biographical monographs on the families of . / by Edward Elbridge Salisbury and Evelyn McCurdy Salisbury. Volume: v.3 (1892) Salisbury, Edward Elbridge, 1814-1901.
• The Scots peerage; founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom by Paul, James Balfour, Sir, 1846-1931, ed.
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Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile McCurdy-105 created through the import of DerrekPrestonWayneSteeleFamily.ged on Oct 14, 2011 by Preston Steele.