Pre

Stone Age: c.11,000 BCE to 2500 BCE / After the glaciers retreated; hunter-gatherers;

Celts

stone tools, pottery, the passage grave at Newgrange (3200 BCE, 500 years before the

Great Pyramids and more than 1000 years before Stonehenge), and the Hill of Tara

Bronze Age: c.2500 BCE to c.500 BCE / metallurgy, copper, gold, Bell Beaker People;

Atlantic trade routes; bronze, primarily copper (Cork, Kerry) with ~12% tin (Cornwall)

The

Iron Age: c.500 BCE to early CE / Celts, Proto-Celtic language, no written records;

Celts

the Celts were described by the Greeks and Romans (Gallic Wars, Julius Caesar)

Ref.

Our McA/I/Ninch surnames: "A Look at the Mc(ac)A/I/Ninch(sh) Surname(s), and

Names

Where They Might be from in Ireland" (‘surname’ article, original 1993, updated 1997),

http://www.mcaninch.net/Surname/mcsurpg1.htm

Ref.

When our immigrant ancestors were born (in the 1700s or 1800s), County Antrim,

Place

Ulster province and all of Ireland was an English Colony (i.e. "British Colonial Ireland").

The northern part of Ireland, Ulster province, is correctly known as "(northern) Ireland"

during historical times (BCE-1600s-1700s-1800s) before the 1920s. Six Ulster counties

became "Northern Ireland" (capital 'N') (part of the United Kingdom) in the 1920s.

Ireland (Irish Free State, 1922): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_of_Ireland

Northern Ireland (1921): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Northern_Ireland

Ref.

"Timeline: McA/I/Ninch Events in 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s, (northern) Ireland"

1600s

McA/I/Ninch events in northern Ireland, with a few significant dates and events in the

1700s

history of the Celts, Dalriada on the north-eastern coast, and the 'Scotti', the highland

1800s

Clan MacInnes, and the Ulster Scots in County Antrim. The Timeline article includes

the birth years of our ancestors who came to North America (Pennsylvania, before the

American Revolution, and later Rhode Island, in the United States, and to Ontario,

New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia in Canada). MFHN v.XXI n.3 July 2013 p.2013-20

http://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn21y2013/m21p20w6.htm

Ref.:

McAninch Y-DNA (2016) / . . . 'McAninch Y-DNA project' . . . STR data . . . SNP tests,

DNA,

Haplogroup R1b-M222 > SNP FGC19486 . . . TMRCA (Time to Most-Recent Ancestor)

BCE

calculations. 'Genetic Genealogy' works in 'DNA time', following human migrations . . .

  to

before surnames . . before international borders . . .before written records were created.

1900s

"McAninch Y-DNA Status Report 2016" MFHN v.XXIV n.1 April 2016 pg.2016-02

http://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn24y2016/m24p02wr.html

with Timeline  http://www.mcaninch.net/Newsletter/mfn24y2016/m24p10wr.html

Ref.

Bill Macafee's Website: Family and Local History - The purpose of this website is

More

to provide a research tool for anyone interested in researching their ancestors and the

Data

localities where they lived within the area of Ulster covered by Co. Londonderry and

North Antrim:  www.billmacafee.com/index.htm

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Updates: More McA/I/Ninch Events, 1600s to 1900s in (northern) Ireland / June 2022

McAninch Family History NL v.XXX n.1  / Copyright Frank McAninch / pg.2022-02

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