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• Name: John TODD
• Sex: M
• Birth: 1667 in Forfar, Angus Co, Scotland ^b
• Death: 1719 in Drumgare, Derrnoose Parish, Co Armagh, Ireland ^d
• Burial: Tynan Churchyard, Tynon, Armagh Co, Ireland ^u


Parents:

• Father:
  
• John Or James TODD Birth: 1639 in Scotland Death: 1718
Mother:

• Isabelle PARKER

Family:
Marriage:

• Isabelle BODLEY on 1 .^m1
  
• Isabelle BODLEY

Children:

1. James TODD Death: 1757
2. William TODD
3. Elizabeth TODD
4. Esther TODD
5. Samuel TODD Birth: 1685
6. Robert TODD Birth: 1697 in Co Armagh, Ireland Death: 3 Apr 1775 in Trappe, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania

Marriage:

• Rose CORNELL on 2 .^m2
  
• Rose CORNELL

Children:

1. Andrew TODD Birth: Co Armagh, Ireland Death: 1791 in Louisa Co, Virginia

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

date:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148, Johnson TODD],

place:

[Ref: Johnson TODD]

Scotland [Ref: Chamberlain TODD p34],

parents:

[Ref: Johnson TODD]

Sources with Inaccurate birth and parent Information

place:

Co Armagh, Ireland [Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148],

name:

John [Ref: Chamberlain TODD, Helm TODD p69, Johnson TODD]

Sources for death Information

date:

[Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148, Johnson TODD]

1718? [Ref: Chamberlain TODD p34, Helm TODD p69],

place:

[Ref: Johnson TODD]

Armagh Co, Ireland [Ref: Hart PresidentWives p148]

Ireland [Ref: Chamberlain TODD p34]

Sources for burial Information

place:

[Ref: Johnson TODD]

Sources with Information about marriage to Isabelle BODLEY

date:

first marriage [Ref: Johnson TODD],

names:

John TODD & Isabella BODLEY or Isabella PARKER [Ref: Johnson TODD],

child:

[Ref: Helm TODD p70, Johnson TODD]

Sources with Information about marriage to Rose CORNELL

date:

second marriage [Ref: Helm TODD p70, Johnson TODD],

child:

[Ref: Helm TODD p71]

Research Notes:
John Todd was presumable a native of Scotland. It is a tradition of his American descendents that he wore a looped up hat and buckskin breeches, with long stockings and large silver shoe buckles. He lived at Drumgare, in Derrynoose parish, Co. Armagh, Ireland, and was buried in Tynan churchyard.
Derrynoose and Tynan were very ancient Irish parishes. The early Derrynoose parish church stood in the townland of Lisatarkelt, in the part of the parish that is in the barony of Tiranny. As early as 1430 the provision made for the vicar by the college of Colidei of Armagh, to which it was appropricate, was so small that no one could be found to accept the benefice. After the Plantation of Ulster Derrynoose and Tynan were united by the Crown and became one rectory. Nearly a century of dissatisfaction with the union followed, and finally in 1709-12 it was terminated. Other charges were made from time to time. Derrynoose is now the rectory of Keady.
For more than a century before the Plantation the territory from Tynan to Keady and from Madan church to Navanfort and the Blackwater was the heart of the O'Neill's country. Tynan parish thus became the centre of the efforts of the great Earl of Tyrone to preserve his supremacy, and of the Lord Deputy of Queen Elizabeth and King James I to rule the North. After the suppression of the great rebellion of 1641 Tynan also became the centre of the efforts to establish the supremacy of the English Church in Ireland.
It appears both from his environment and the provisions in his will affecting the parishes of Derrynoose and Tynan that John Todd was a Churchman, but the fact that his descendants in America are Presbyterians may be accounted for by the Presbyterian influences that surrounded them in Armagh.
The Presbyterian congregation of Tynan can be traced back in the record of the General Synod of Ulster to 1691. The meeting house was that now known as Lisloony - the fort of O'Loony - which took its name from the townland in which it stands. The townland obtained its name from the splendid double-ringed fort crowning the hill overlooking Tynan. The congretation was scattered over a wide district and embraced parts of the counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Tyrone. It was known previous to 1702 as the congregation of Kinaird, now Caledon, taking its name from the principal town in the district, although Kinaird was in an adjoining parish. The Kinaird congregation embraced the sounthern part of the barony of Tyranny in the county Armagh, extending as far north as Eglish, and it included a large slice of the barony of Armagh, extending to within a couple of miles of Armagh city and a like distance from Keady. In Monaghan it took in the barony of Truagh, and in Tyrone it embracced the territory of Winterburn, and extended to within two miles of Aughnacloy. The Rev. William Ambrose was the first minister.
The district in which Mr. Todd settled and where he died not only possessed a varied historic interest, but from this region in the eighteenth century came many emigrants to Pennsylvania, including two, and perhaps three of his sons, and the ancestors of the Poes, Potters, and Bards. [Ref: Helm TODD p69-70]

The assumption that the Todd family of Pennsylvania and Kentucky, to which Mrs. Abraham Lincoln belonged, is derived from John Todd, of Co. Armagh, Ireland, differs from the conclusion reached by Mrs. Helm. She derives the family from James Todd, of Co. Down, who was born in 1646 and died in 1704, aged 58 years, and was buried in a walled burying ground in Co. Down. His son, John Todd, born in 1693, inherited his lands and was buried in the same place in 1757, aged 64 years, leaving the same possessions to his son James Todd, who died in 1829. This James Todd left four sisters and three sons who were, David, James, and John Todd; John married Martha McCall, and left four sons and two daughters. The burying ground is about four miles from the Todd home.
Abstract of wills obtained from the Record Office, Four Courts, Dublin, fail to accordd with the assumption that John Todd, of Co. Down, was the ancestor of the Pennsylvania and Kentucky Todds, but point to John Todd, of Co. Armagh. The wills of the Todds of Down are deficient in the necessary names at the necessary time for the Pennsylvania ancestors. The will of John Todd, of Armagh, meets all the necessary conditions except one - he was apparently a Churchman, while the Pennsylvania Todds were Presbyterians. In both Down and Armagh the Todds were representative Presbyterians at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Elder John Todd sat as delegate for Donoughmore, Co. Down, in the General Synod of Ulster, with his pastor, the Rev. James Johnston, in 1708, 1709, 1711, and 1720; and Elder James Todd was delegate for Vinecash, Co. Armagh, with his pastor, the Rev. William Mackay, in 1717, and Elder John Todd for the same charge in 1725. The Rev. James Todd was pastor at Vinecash, 1747-1795. Vinecash is a village in the ecclesiastical district of Mullavilly, between Tanderages and Portadown. Other Todds were Presbyterian elders, and among the delegates to the General Synod of Ulster were Elder Andrew Todd, Drumbo, Co. Donegal, 1738; Elder Andrew Todd, Stonebridge, (Clones), Co. Monaghan, 1739; Elder James Todd, Dervock, Co. Antrim, 1742; and Elder John Todd, Loughbrickland, Co. Down, 1753. All these were probably of the same stock, but their relationship is a difficult problem in constructive genealogy. [Ref: Seilhamer KittochtinnyMag v1#1p104]



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 /-----John Or James TODD
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 \-----Isabelle PARKER



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