Riney Sources
Welcome to a page which offers proof of a long Irish presence in the New
World contrary to a seemingly popular but distorted slant as to their
comings. They say it began with the Famine of the mid 1800s.
Irish people have been coming here in one way or another ever since
Britain's Empire building days. If one believes Saint Brendan accounting of
a voyage taken in the 6th century then Irishmen were here before others
claiming to have done so.
Under English control the men of Ireland were obliged to fight with their
oppressor neighbour for survival or favor and thus helped England in her
thirst for dominion over the world's peoples. Spain and France were also
beneficiaries of Irish fighting men who fought with them in hopes of
obtaining reciprocal help in liberating Ireland. Irishmen to the tune
of 750,000 men died fighting for France. Many of the Irish survivors and
the descendents of those who died came to fight in America's cause with
Layafette. Be it also understood that Irishmen also fought on the side of
England during the American Revolution.
Two hundred years ago, in 1798, Protestant Irishman Wolfe Tone's plea for French help
realised a token force but it was too little and too late ending in yet
another of Ireland's failed liberation attempts. If the attempt had met
with success then the differences that currently exist between Catholics and
Protestants in the North of Ireland may never had an opportunity of being
exploited. The 1798 Rebellion led to the Act of Union which England smartly
put in place to embrace Protestant (Calvinist co-religionists) and branding
Catholics as being unworthy of intermingling with royals and such. I guess
they had to try something after having experienced the loss of their American
colony some 22 years earlier. A loss that both Catholic and Protestant
Irishmen contributed to, in large measure. By the way, discriminatory UK
laws against Catholics are still on the books to this very day.
Irish Empire
Maryland Colony ..
Baltimore County history ..
Riney migration with Lord?
The web sites on genealogy in America tend to have a Scotch-Irish
bias. Records purporting to be solely theirs are rife with names that
are patently those of sons of Erin. One site attempts at a more English-Scotch
connection for America's greatness while cunningly trying to relegate
contributions of others (we know who they are referring to) as being
incapable of industry, stupid is the way I read it.
Slanted and demeaning notions such as these do not make for honest discovery of
ancestry. Many of those who view themselves as being of a lower life form
start acting out what is expected of them. Some of our people have tried to
escape through name changes and by adopting religious beliefs of the
controlling group. At this point in history, many of these people have no
idea who they really are, they and real WASPs do not wish to be connected
in any way or shape with the believers of an unpopular faith that is
identified with another empire and time. England's enemies after all
subscribed to a Romanist view and that is upsetting I would imagine. I have
a sense that I'm correct on this matter. Some
months ago I received an email from someone who expressed an eagerness
to learn about the Rineys, my return email of explanation as to our origin
soured him, is my sense. His English surname interleaved with Rineys in the
late 1600s by way of a second marriage.
A distorted notion as to the coming of native Irish to America and the obvious
oversight of our contributions to America's founding is a masterful
management of an unreality. With this in mind may your quest for ancestry
be most exciting and by leaving the chips fall where they may.
Below, a Riney found in Virginia. One who, perhaps, wandered over the
border from Maryland. Irish, English, Welsh and French Catholics flowed
into Maryland when Lord Baltimore, governed. Protestant Virginians were
not too happy having Papists next door to them and demonstrated their
unhappiness with attacks on their neighbor. When the Revolution was
won these same Catholics who had by now intermarried with each other
were obliged to vacate their properties and run for their lives. They did
so by fleeing down the Ohio River ending up in states like Kentucky, Missouri, Kansas and so on. The clannishness of these people's
descendents whom I had the pleasure of meeting in Owensboro, some years
back, was remarkable. I'd imagine that some of those who were unable or
unwilling to flee Catholic
Maryland underwent name modifications and
belief adjustments as well. Being left without a supporting clergy
they may have been obliged to fall in line with whatever form
of religion that was available to them. People who have undergone trauma tend
not to discuss bad times, this was true of the Irish Famine while I
was growing up in Ireland. Nobody wished to discuss the Irish Holocaust
which fair minded people now realize was an attempt at the extermination
of a people.
A people made beggardly by confiscation of their lands and then
accusing them of being lazy when the blight hit. They who were left
with put a patch of the worst soil of their very own properties on which
to grow the one and only, potato crop, they were not allowed space to grow
anything else. England's extermination efforts helped trigger a mass exodus
which helped to populate her territories and those of her surrogates.
CHRONICLES OF THE Scotch-Irish Settlement IN VIRGINIA
EXTRACTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COURT RECORDS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY
1745-1800
ABSTRACTS OF WILLS OF AUGUSTA COUNTY, VIRGINIA. WILL BOOK NO. V.
ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.
Page 133
--18th August, 1773. Settlement recorded of
Thomas Thompson's estate, Edward Thompson, administrator--To
paid John Montgomery, William Dougherty, Michael Riney,
15 gallons liquor for the vendue; Mary Moore. [p.131]
| South Kerry, Ireland - since 1600s |
Riney Families, galore |
| Name's origin - from O'Neill |
(Ri=king Ney=Neill abbrev.) |
Boston, 1764 |
Riney, Charles |
| Ship Unknown |
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| Boston, 1764 |
Riney, Catherine |
| Ship Unknown |
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| Virginia - 1776 |
Rinney?, Patrick |
| |
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| New York Census - 1820 |
Riney, John |
| 7th Ward |
NYC |
| New York Census - 1820 |
Riney, Anthony |
| 7th Ward |
NYC |
| New York Census - 1830 |
Riney, Henry |
| |
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| New York Census - 1840 |
Riney, Samuel |
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| New York Census - 1840 |
Riney, William |
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| "Industry" 1848 |
Rinesy?, Betty |
| Famine immigrant |
Sailed from Cork |
| "M. Hawes" 1848 |
Riney, William |
| Famine immigrant |
|
| "M. Hawes" 1848 |
Riney, Bridget |
| Famine immigrant |
|
| "M. Hawes" 1848 |
Riney, Mary |
| Famine immigrant |
|
| "M. Hawes" 1848 |
Riney, Ellen |
| Famine immigrant |
|
| NY South Census - 1850 |
Riney, James |
| Greene County |
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| NY South Census - 1850 |
Riney, James L. |
| Greene County |
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| NY South Census - 1850 |
Riney, Thomas |
| Ulster County |
|
| Missouri Census - 1850 |
Riney, James |
| born |
Kentucky |
Culled from Web page:
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A Riney Trail
"Irish Settlers in America by O'Brien"
In the southern states many of the pioneer schoolmasters
were Irishmen; as for example, the first school in Knoxville,
Memphis and Nashville, Tennesse, were taught by Irish immigrant
teachers.
An Irishman was president of Kentucky University, and we
are told by Ida M. Tarbell in her "Early Life of Abraham Lincoln"
that many of the itinerant masters (in Kentucky) were Catholics,
strolling Irishmen from the colony of Tennesse.
Master Zachariah Riney (who taught
Lincoln
.. As a Boy)
is referred to as "a man of excellent character, deep piety and fair
education."
Lincoln had more interaction with Master Riney than historians would have
believe. Riney owned a farm adjacent to the Hanks, the family
of Abe's mother.
Rineyville, Kentucky was not named for Zachariah Riney but was instead
named for his son on whose property it was located on.
U.S. History Docs ...
Gaelic ...
Riney ???
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