The Bullow Family of County Armagh. Ireland-1

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The Bullow family of Lurgan, County Armagh. Ireland. Variations include Bullo Bollo Bulloc Bullok Ballow.

There has been much confusion by some genealogists and family tree researchers confusing the Bullow family of Lurgan for being related to the Bullock family or the Bullough family, two other families with history also in Lurgan but from my research thus far have complete different origins.

The Bullow family were Ulster-Scots originating from the Bullo family of Peebles Scotland.

The Bullo, Bullok, family are said to have got their name from bealach which is Gaelic meaning an outlet of a Lake or a Glen. The Bullo family owned a large parcel of land in Peebles called Bonnington-Bullo that had a large Lake.

The Bullo family is also said to have got their name in possible relation to Edward Balliol who was a claimant to the Scottish throne, he ruled parts of the kingdom from 1332 to 1356.

The bullo family and Hay family, both of tweeddale (peebles) Scotland are said to have moved over to county Armagh at the same time with records showing their apreance started between 1696 and 1710, it is assumed they had both been gifted land in County Armagh by King James I. King James had taken land from Hay and Bullo clan under the unification of the Sottish borders.

John Bullo protested in St Andrews of Peebles that the Bullo family owned land in Peeblesshire as far back (quote by John Bullow in 1561. “Beyond the memory of man”). Appendix E p79 Peebles: Burgh & Parish in early history by Robert Renwick.

Members of the Hay family still reside in county Armagh but are now spelt as Hay(es) with an “es”. Due to Anglo-Saxon influence. It is to be noted that County Armagh was mainly seetled by English with Ulster-Scots being only a third. Being of such a minority the Ulster-Scots of County Armagh are often forgotten. The Bullo family are understood to have the” w” added to Bullo(w) for the same reason as the Hayes Clan.

The Bullow family and the Bullough family from Lancashire England are different families that are at most related by marriage but are a different family.

The Bullough family were gifted land in County Armagh for one of the relative’s military services in the Civil war. The Bullough family came from the family name Bullagh pronounced Bulla. Some of their family members changing their name to Bulla or Buller when they moved to Pennsylvania and other parts of America after Ulster.

The Bullock family are said to have come from George Bullock who was born in 1622 in Cornwall England and died in 1703 in Lurgan. George Bullock was Father of famous clock maker Ezekiel Bullock and father of Katherine Bullock, (there was also a Katherine Bullow in Quaker records Lurgan some 29 years later that has led to some confusion, they were the same Katherine when they were different families.

The English name Bullock is said to have derived from the Anglo-Saxon "bulluca", meaning a young bull, often associated with a family that kept or farmed bulls.

Bullow family and the bulloch family from South Lanarkshire Scotland, some 35km from Peebles to County of Lanark, are said not to be related but were possibly related by marriage. The Bulloch family became Ulster-Scots in County Antrim, Ireland. Members of their family moved to Georgia America after Ulster.

The Bullo/Bullow family moved from Ulster to Melbourne Australia in mid 1800s, this included John Bullow 1805-1877 of Lurgan, County Armagh. and his 9 Children.

Early appearances of Bullow, Bullo family The Scottish surname of Bullo was first found in Roxburghshire( some 38km southeast from Peebles) where one of the earliest records of the name was Adam Bulloc who witnessed an agreement the abbot and the monks of Newbattle c. 1250 In 1456 William Bullo of Peebles appeared as a Claimant in Court. In 1580 Sir John Tweedie, the Chaplain of the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Peebles, is referred to as consenting to a Charter granted by the King in favor of John Bullo, the Chaplain of the Altar of St. Martin, in the parish Church of St. Andrews of Peebles. In 1692 William Bullow was an apprentice in Edinburgh,

Sources include: History of Peeblesshire by William & Robert Chambers 1864

Peebles: Burgh and Parish in early history by Robert Renwick 1903

History of the Tweedie family of peebleshire 1902

The Surnames of Scotland (1946) by George Fraser Black (1866-1948)

Scotlandspeople.gov.uk Geneanet.org www.myheritage.com www.ancestry.com www.familysearch.org www.Wikitree.com

Lurgan Quaker meeting minutes 1675-1710 by J. L. Fisher 2008

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