Born ‎1650/1660 Forbar, Angus, Scotland, died ‎1717/1719 Drumgare, Armaugh, Ireland‎, approximately 67 years, buried ‎ Tynan Yard, Derrymore Parish
John TODD was born in 1650 in Forbar, Augus, Scotland. Born about 1650 in Ireland. -- Edney.

Born about 1650 in Scotland. -- Edney citing Wright.

Born 1660 in Forbar, Augus, Scotland. -- Esvelt, citing Murphy.

Born about 1650. -- Esvelt, citing Danner.
He died about 1718 in Drumgare, Berrynoose, Armangh Co., Ireland. John Todd died about 1718 in Drumgare, Berrynoose, Armangh County, Ireland. -- Edney.

John Todd died in 1718 in Ireland. -- Edney citing Wright.
"Of the Covenanters captured at Sothwell Bridge, 250 were sentenced to be transported to America. 200 of these were drowned in shipwreck off the Orkneys: 50 escaped, and afterwards took part in the defense of Londonderry. Among those drowned were Robert Todd of Fenwick and James Todd of Dunbar. In 1669, the same year in which these two were drowned, John Todd, their brother, fled from the persecutions of Claverhouse in Scotland, and sought refuge in Downs Co., Ireland. In 1720, his son, Robert Todd (1697) came with his family from Ireland to Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania, where he died in 1776. His first wife, Isabella Parker, died before he left Ireland, but he married Isabella Hamilton in America. Isabella Parker was the mother of Robert Todd. Many families of note in Pennsylvania were related to her. John Todd (son of Robert) graduated at Princeton in 1749, located in Louisa Co., Virginia, and became so distinguished as a Presbyterian minister, scholar and educator, that it has been said that no history of the Presbyterian Church in Virginia could be written without honorable mention of him." Citing an unknown source. -- Edney.

"Of the Covenanters captured at Bothwell Bridge, 250 were sentenced to be transported to America. 200 of these were drowned in shipwreck off the Orkneys: 50 escaped, and afterwards took part in the defense of Londonderry. Among those drowned were Robert Todd of Fenwick and James Todd of Dunbar. . . . In 1679, the year in which Robert Todd, of Fenwick, was drowned, John Todd fled from the persecutions of Claverhouse in Scotland, to find refuge in the North of Ireland. The record of Mrs. Ben. Hardin Helm describes John Todd, the refugee, as a "Scottish Laird," and that means simply that he owned land in fee and was a landlord, and not at all that he belonged to or was allied with the nobility. Two of his grandsons, Andrew and Robert Todd, came with their families to America in 1737." Citing "Historic Families of Kentucky," by Thomas Marshall Green, originally published Cincinnati, 1889, reprinted for Clearfield Co., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1996, p. 208. -- Esvelt.

"Branch 20 of the Todd's starts with James Todd b. abt. 1630 in Scotland. His son John (b. 1650 Scotland d. 1718 Ireland) married twice, 2nd wife was Rose Cornell. Andrew TODD was son by 1st wife and Robert TODD by 2nd. Robert (b. 1697 Armagh co. Irl. & d. 1775 Montomery CO. PA) Robert married twice, first wife was a Smith and second wife was Isabella Bodley. Children by 1st wife were Rev. John and David TODD. Children with 2nd wife were 1) William, 2) Andrew, 3) Robert, 4) Samuel, 5) Levi, 6) Mary, 7) Elizabeth, 8) Sarah." Citing posting on GenForum Dec. 31, 1998 by Linda Wright: -- Edney, Esvelt.

From C. Holsapple, cccch00@yahoo.com, Todd-L Rootsweb mailing list, June 28, 2000: Johnson, Houston E., and Annette Gallaher Murphy, The TODD Family History, Annette Gallaher Murphy, 1982. LDS FILM 035667, 1984. From Emily Todd Helm, Kittochtinny Magazine, vol 1 no 1, Jan 1905, pp. 69-70: "John Todd was presumably 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 69-70] -- Esvelt.

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 accord 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 JamesTodd, 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. -- Esvelt.
He was married to Rose CORNELL in Armaugh Co., Ireland. John Todd married twice, and his second wife was Rose Cornell. -- Edney, citing Wright.

John Todd and Rose Cornell were married about 1650 in Armagh, Ireland. [However, this makes Rose 47 when her child was born.] -- Edney.

Also, if John Todd was born in 1650, they could not have been born then. -- Win Apel.

John Todd and Rose Cornell were the parents of Robert Todd. -- Rozell.


Rose CORNELL was born before 1685 in Armaugh Co., Ireland. Rose Cornell was born in Armagh, Ireland. -- Rozell.
Children were:

Robert TODD.
Andrew TODD immigrated in 1737 to U.S..(1060) Andrew Todd was John Todd's son by first wife, and Robert Todd was his son by his second wife, Rose Cornell. -- Edney, citing Wright.


Andrew was a grandson of James Todd b. about 1630. [He may have been a son of a child of James other than John.] -- Esvelt.

"Historic Families of Kentucky," by Thomas Marshall Green, originally published Cincinnati, 1889, reprinted for Clearfield Co., by Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, 1996, p. 208
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