McElwain - County Tyrone

Hi Bob,

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i am also interested in this McElwain family.  They farmed just nw of Cookstown, Co Tyrone, near a community then called Drumnaglough, leaving Ireland in i believe 1836.  There were some baptisms in this family at the Orritor Presbyterian Church.

The primary research question is to push this family back -- when did come to Ireland?  We suspect from Scotland, possibly around 1700, but we can't place them before the 1820s.

Thanks.