The Ed Morrah Family Home Page

I am researching the Morrah surname. The Morrahs first appear in the "Princess Ann" area of Virginia (now Norfolk area) in wills dated 1685 and 1689. They are believed to have immigrated from Ulster. Their prior location is thought to have been in the border countrybetween England and Scotland, probably centered in Northumberland or in the Norfolk area of England.Indications are that they moved north from Virginia into Cumberland Co. Pennsylvania by way of Maryland and Delaware by the mid 1700's. They continued, apparently via the "Great Wagon Road", through western Virginia and North Carolina into the Abbeville Dist. of South Carolina early in the second half of the 1700's. Some of the family still reside in thisarea, now McCormick Co. Another group migrated from England to Australia in the mid 1800's and later into New Zealand. I am interested in any information relating to these or other branches of this family, past or present, and will gladly share any data that I have.Other surnames of interest are; Bradley, Brownlee, Buttrey, Calhoun, Ewing, Joines, Kidd, Wardlaw, and Wideman. All were immigrants into the Carolinas during 17 and 1800's.James E, (Ed) Morrah