The STEELE Family History
The following is from 'Burkes Landed Gentry'
A large class of names are derived from the weapons of insignia of war, such as Steel.
FAMILY OF STEELE John Steele, Esq. of Portavoc and Carnalia, born about the year 1689, married Miss Mary Blackwood and had issue:
James, of whom nothing is known.
John
Mary, married to John Crawford of Haleystone in the County of Antrim.
Margaret
The Second Son
John Steele, esquire of Belfast married 23 Nov 1721 Isabell daughter of Alex.Hamilton, esq. of Ballyvernon and by hre (who died 15 May 1739) had 8 sons of whom 3 survived infancy.
Estates in the counties of Down, Donegall and Antrim
My ancestors spelled the family name "STEEL" until about 1830 when a few of them began adding the final 'E'. During the 16th and 17th centuries considerable numbers of people emigrated from Scotland to Ireland to escape oppression of various kinds, mostly religious persecution. These settled largely in the eastern and northern parts of Ireland. Many of them intermarried with the best elements of Irish people. Because of exhorbitant taxation and religious persecution and oppression in Ireland, thousands of Scot-Irish Presbyterian families left Ireland and came to the American colonies. Most of the Steels (es) of America are Scots-Irish and most of them, as distinct families came directly from Ireland.
STEELE Family Line
Robert Steel b. ? married ?
Isabella Steel b. ? Larne County Antrim, Ireland married Thomas Pilkington
Mary Jane Pilkington b. 1 May 1777 married Thomas Purse.
Mary Ann Summers Purse married John Murchison
Mary Ellen Murchison married Cornelius Decatur Rogers
Margaret Murchison Rogers married James Tinley Ryder
Mary Ella Ryder married Z..L. Chancellor
Margaret Ryder Chancellor married Lewis G. Bowdoin
Margaret Ellen Bowdoin married Robert Floyd Lewin
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