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This post-doctoral Fellowship seeks to further develop a prosopographical database of British Settlers in the Ulster Plantation (1609-1700).
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Get matched →This 18-month post-doctoral Fellowship, awarded in Summer 2024, aims to further develop the prosopographical database of British Settlers in the Ulster Plantation (1609-1700). The project utilizes historical data related to English and Scottish settlers in Ulster from c.1609-1641. The R.J. Hunter Grants Scheme was established in 2014 by Ms Laura Hunter Houghton in honor of her father, R.J. Hunter, a respected historian of the Ulster Plantation.
The fellowship is committed to developing the Ulster Settlers’ Database, now retitled 'The People of Plantation Ulster'. This graph-type database is designed to tabulate individuals' lives through incremental data tagging, enabling users to navigate from organizations to inhabitants via 'relationships' and 'events' (dateable incidents like plantation surveys or rent-rolls). The platform has proven highly adaptable for structuring and interlinking data, allowing researchers to seek information on persons and organizations using basic search terms.
Previous work by Dr. Richard Fitzpatrick created the fundamental framework, generating thousands of 'organizations' to which individual names could be linked. Initial data came from plantation grants in the Jacobean calendar of patent rolls and Sir George Carew’s survey of 1611. To expand beyond landholding data, Dr. Fitzpatrick incorporated 13,000 fencible men from the Ulster muster rolls of c.1630. This foundational work yielded 15,000 settler identities from around fifty sources.
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