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Note: Notes from the Scotch-Irish by Charles Hanna (1902). The name Williamson was a fairly common Scottish name with no noble
connection. It wasn't in the top 50 commonest names in Scotland in the
1850's. He lists it as being most common around Peebleshire. It also
appears as a border clan around 1597. using the 1890 census to locate
Scotch families in Ireland he lists 57 Williamson families in Ireland and
54 of them in Ulster located principally in Antrim, Armagh, Londonderry and
Tyrone.
There is supposed to be a Williamson that came to America early on.
Dad found a family of a possible brother of Richard's named
John - also from Ireland, a carter married to Mary A. Magee with at least
four children.
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