Sons of Cuairt, a McCord Journey over Seventeen Centuries

Sons of Cuairt, a McCord Journey over Seventeen Centuries

Seventeen Hundred Years from Hibernia to Galloway to Ulster and the New World

Origins • DNA • War • Faith • Exile • Frontier • Legacy

For centuries, the McCord story lay scattered — in ruined kirks along the wind-carved Irish coast, in the archives of Stirling and Edinburgh, in forgotten court rolls at Penninghame, in Ulster church books singed by rebellion, and in the quiet graveyards of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Tennessee, and beyond.

Today, for the first time, these fragments unite.

The McCord Story is a historical fiction narrative reconstruction of a single 3rd Century ancestor — traced by primary records, Big-Y DNA evidence, parish registers, colonial journals, and the living memory of thousands of descendants. It follows that ancestors two family lines — and the many who share its ancient blood — from ancient Gaels, medieval Scotland to the American frontier and into the modern world.

This is not simply genealogy.
It is a human journey across 17 centuries.

What You’ll Discover

A Line Recovered

• Big Y DNA source of the McCord surname
• Descendants during the reign of the Dal Riata
• The fight for the independence of Gaelic Galloway
• Right-hand men of the Clan Kennedy
• A McCord Laird in Kirkandrews and Penninghame
• A rejoining of the lines via an NPE
• McCord contribution to the Plantation of Ulster

• Covenanter wars, famine survival
• Presbyterian defiance and the Ulster frontier spirit

• Mass emigration to the Americas
• McCords at Fort McCord and the tragedy of its fall
• Children carried into captivity — and returned
• Revolutionary War soldiers, frontier ministers, weavers and wagon-masters
• Settlement patterns from Pennsylvania to the Carolinas and Tennessee

• The Civil War and split McCord families
• Modern day McCords who carry on the legacy

Cultural Themes

• Honor, land, faith, reputation
• Clan bonds and frontier justice
• The price of exile, the cost of independence
• What it means to belong to a name

Who This Book Is For

• Anyone with McCord interest or allied families
• Lovers of historical fiction epics rooted in real charcters
• Students of the Plantation and American frontier periods
• Readers who believe the ordinary life is extraordinary in hindsight

A Living Legacy

This is the story of people who plowed rich Ulster soil, crossed cold channels, and an ocean, stood at Fort McCord’s ramparts, marched under Washington, pushed wagons across Appalachia, and carved new names into the American earth.

It is the story of:

Lairds and weavers, farmers and soldiers, patriots and captives, pioneers and keepers of the old Presbyterian fire.

And it is the story of you —
if your blood remembers.