Linda and I are leaving the 15th for Northern Ireland. We will first be going to Lisburn/Belfast to work in the PRONI, a library of records for Northern Ireland, and also will be searching in that area for descendents of Samuel Hull, the brother of Thomas Hull II and his great uncle James Hull, the brother of Richard Hull. We will be taking 4 DNA kits and some permission sheets that will allow us to gather DNA samples to help prove the lines. Over ten cousins back in Utah have helped us raise funds to pay for the tests so this should make it easier to convince them to participate. We already have three families in the US that we have connected to using the DNA testing program.
On the 20th we will pick up at the Dublin airport Kristen and Dean, Kris is Bill Hull's daughter from Pocatello, and they will join us as we go from Dublin over to Dungiven where our family originated. Dungiven is about 20 miles East of Derry (Londonderry). We will be staying with Janet Kerr and Wilf her husband, she is the Great Grand Daughter of Peggy Jane Hull, the ist daughter of Thomas Hull II. We will continue our research for relatives with the name of Benson, Miller and Hull and also trying to find the descendents of John Hull an immigrant to Australia who left two children and his wife in Dungiven to go to the Gold fields in Victoria where he died. After 5 days in this area we will travel to Ayr, Scotland to a little hamlet called In-the-Den which is part of Dalry to visit the birth place of William Gibson Hull and do research and visiting of relatives of James Hull, the brother of Thomas Hull II and Margaret Hull the sister of the same. We will be close to Glascow and will do a day or so of research there.
On about the 28th we will drive across part of Scotland to NorthEast England to visit the are of Durham/north Cumberland where my wife Linda's family lived and then after a few days down to Liverpool are where we will visit the home area of the Rigby's, Chadwicks and Hespeths. This is my grandmother's family. After a few days of research we will take the ferry across to Dublin and fly home.
I would like to thank my Uncle's and Aunts and cousins before me that were so faithful in their research and seeking out our family. I have and will continue to use the book published by these relies to guide me in our travels and research. Cynthia and Murray, our cousins in Australia, and Rob Hull, our DNA cousin in California have all given assignments and directions to follow as we go on this trip. That is so helpful to me. Robert Parker and his wife and brother and have been extremely helpful with the website, posting of pictures and records and supporting this whole project, and my Sister Carol who is patiently collecting histories contacting cousins and keeping us all connected. Linda who is so patient with my obsession of doing this reseach is a great companion and willing to travel far from her home and children. Thanks Linda. I will try to update this blog with info and pictures each day as we travel across the country. Talk to you later. Dan
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October 16th, 2006
We flew from Baltimore to Philadephia and then on to Dublin all night. It was a short 5 and a half hour flight so even though it was all night we really got to Dublin at 3:30 in the morning not 7:30 as the local time said. We got our rental car drove out a short distance and it had a flat tire so back we went and waited for a half hour to get a new tire and then we went up to New Grange to check out a 5000 year old archeology site and then up to Belfast to find our room, and the PRONI which is the records house in Belfast for Northern Ireland. We found both and as planned even though it was all planned by web searching, the bed and breakfast is a half mile or less from the PRONI. I lucked out. We rested this evening to get our air legs back and tomorrow we start the research for a few days.
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