Gullane

East Gullane - 2017

Gullane is located in Kilconly Parish.
 In 1841 there were 2210 residents in the parish.  In 1851 there were 1521.  Of those 728 were male and 793 were female.  There were 247 families with 37 % in 4th class houses.  There had been 370 families in 1841 with 55.7% in 4th class houses. In 1841 85% of heads of household were in agriculture.





  By 1851 the number had dwindled to 66.7%.  In 1841 only 16.1% of the male population were literate and 5.2% of females.  Those numbers increased to 40.3% for males and 14.4% for females in 1851.



 

Edmund English didn't emigrate until 1880, but some of his extended family members left much earlier.  His uncle, Jeremiah Lawler was in Minnesota by 1850 and many of his family as well as many neighbors from Kilconly Parish soon joined him.  Among those Edmund would have found when he stopped in Rochester were the Scanlons, the O'Connors, the McElligots, the Mulvihills, as well as numerous Lawler and English cousins.



Statistics from the Irish Famine Project led by Alan Fernihough of Queen's University Belfast