LAMECH, Patriarch Noah Ben

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• Name	LAMECH, Noah Ben
  Prefix	Patriarch
  Birth	Abt 2944/3072 BC	Shulon, Eden
  Gender	Male
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  Death	2006 BC/1792 BC	Salem, Canaan, West Bank, Palestine
  Burial	1994 BC/1792 BC	Salem, Jerusalem, Canaan
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  Person ID	I69802	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
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  Father	METHUSAEL, High Priest Lamech Ben ,   b. 3126 BC/3072 BC, Eden Edend. DECEASED, Eden
  Family ID	F33095	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Titea
  Children	4 sons
  1. NOAH, Bith ben + 2. NOAH, Japeth Ben ,   b. 2444 BC/2304 BC   d. DECEASED + 3. NOAH, Shem Ben ,   b. 2434 BC/2304 BC   d. 1842 BC/1792 BC   4. NOAH, Ham ben ,   b. 2424 BC/2304 BC   d. DECEASED
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  THE ROYAL LINE CHART PREPARED FOR THE NEW YORK STAKE GENEALOGICAL BOARD THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY DAINTS CENTENNIAL EXHIBITION - MARCH 1936 Compiled from - "The Kinship of families" by Archibald F. Bennett "Adam to New Chart" by Mrs. Eva Sells Jaeger "Europe's Royal Family Tree" by E. L. Sandberg "Pedigree of Joseph Smith, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt" by Karl Weiss "Present Time and Prophecies" by James H. Anderson Bible, Pearl of Great Price Secular History (Notice - These copies are presented to you with some misspelling and ommission due to human errors. We offer it as a challenge to anyone to correct them.) ----------------- b. 1056 d. 2006 at 950 years old. "The Farmer" First to plant a vineyard after the flood. Sumber: 1. National Library of Indonesia "Tapel Adam" Bat Cedotschap Jar.Udos. B.G.v.K.e.W. 393. Kanjeng Nabi Adam to Kingdoms of Indonesia. 2. A Family Tree: From Adam to Jesus by C. Hemmelman, Jerusalem Distributor: The Three Arches Co Ltd. P. O. Box 214, Bethlehem, Israel. Sources: Old Testament, Books of Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, The New Testament. In addition,partial genealogies of Josephus Flavius (Joseph ben Matthias) and of Herord the Great have been added for their inherent interest. 3. Bible: Ordained at 10 by Methuselah (D&C 107:52). Genesis 5:28-32; Moses 8:8-30; 1 Chronicles 1:4; Luke 3:36. 4. A guide to Irish Roots by William and Mary Durning. SOURCES:THE KINSHIP OF FAMILIES chart by the late Archibald Bennett for the Genealogical Society of Utah A GUIDE TO IRISH ROOTS by Durning (Newspaper Article in Bandung, Indonesia. The David and Alice Turley established a National Genealogical Center in Jakarta.) NOAH IS OUR GREAT GRANDFATHER Few families have plumbed deeper into the wellsprings of genealogy (family history) than the David and Alice Turley family. After over four decades of research and months of drawing lines and 162,000 names, dates and places, plus millions of bytes of sources, notes, and stories, typed in the computer, they say, they say come join us! Along with being the parents of six children, in-laws-and grandchildren plus great-grandchildren, the Turleys have completed a four by twenty-five foot pedigree chart on artist's canvas of their roots that includes six ancestral lines traced to their original parents, Adam and Eve, our first parents. They have been honored as one of six "Great American Families" by the President of the United States because of their contribution to families and communities of the world. Much of David's ancestral research has been done over many years by family organizations - large, well-organized family groups, and a great deal of traveling around the world. With Alice it has been quite a different story. Until 1975, her family had been unable to track down her great grandfather. Two short lines in an old Catholic Bible was all the information they had. Perseverance finally paid off and Mrs. Turley pieced together her roots back to immigrant ancestors in the 1700 century. In between were countless letters, many summer trips to courthouses, graveyards, and libraries around the world. Much of Alice's research was done in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, at the Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Church Family History Library. This library is the world's largest collection of Genealogical data and includes billions of names, dates, sources etc. The Turleys have both searched for and found their roots. And guess what? "Their roots are your roots. We all stem from a common ancestor - our Great-Grandfather, Noah continuing further back to Adam and Eve, our first parents. Ours is a shared ancestry. We shouldn't think back and say, 'My ancestry, mine, mine, mine.' We should say, 'ours, ours, ours.' The further back we reach, the greater the chorus swells. We are all brothers and sisters," stated Alice, the Genealogist. Alice explained her interest this way, "I am the biological blend of two different people, the combining of my parents into one flesh. I have adopted the characteristics of my parents - their speech, mannerisms, gestures, laughs, attitudes, and so on. This is one of the reasons genealogy intrigues me. I sometimes wonder how much of my ancestry I still carry in me; how far back into my genealogical roots I could tract my own mannerisms, physical attributes, and character traits. How fascinating it would be to have a detailed written and visual account of each of my ancestors with which to better understand myself." Fortunately, such records are available now and are concluded here at its best. From the records that are available, the Turleys found two grandfathers who fought against each in the American Civil War; an eighty-year-old barefoot and almost-blind great grandfather whose name appeared differently in three different census records; Another cousin was President George Washington 1776; a grandfather who froze to death after crossing the Platte River in 1856 on their way West; a grandmother from Ireland who smuggled her nephew in a barrel on the emigrant boat to save passage; also five of the Signers of the Magna Charta, including King John. Another relative from France died on the "throne" (and not a royal throne!). A Viking ancestor who conquered Normandy over 1000 years ago and started the English royal line through his descendant, William the Conqueror. Finally Anna, the cousin of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Alice further stated, "Ironically, some of our best genealogical information is that concerning our earliest parentage. Sometimes we forget when reading the early portion of the Bible that we are reading our own family history and that we share a very special relationship with those individuals. Few of us would think of claiming Iraq as an ancestral homeland, yet that is where our Great-etc.-grandfather, the Prophet Abraham, was born and reared to early maturity. Syria remains a foreign country in the minds of us, yet our grandmothers, Rebecca and Rachel, were born there, as was our grandfather, Jacob and his twelve sons. Through our roots, we are citizens of the world, and whatever happens in the world affects our distant cousins. David elaborated, "As we contemplate our ancestry and what they have endured that we might be here - as we sense their faith and courage and feel their love for us and our love for them, we begin to comprehend the eternal nature of the family." At a recent conference on genealogy, Alice suggested, "What a blessing it would be to our children and grandchildren to give them a detailed personal history - our account of our days and their ancestors. By writing personal and family histories, we are helping our children immeasurably in gaining a true perspective of life. Writing our histories with the proper blend of fact and feeling gives us and them a deep insight into the meaning and purpose of our lives." When a picture is printed of a family with wrinkled old arms enfolded around little children bursting with vigor and vitality, there is a record of family that is as unique as a fingerprint. Nowhere in the world is there a family exactly like the one who stares out from the photograph. This is a powerful anchor, especially in these days when the sheer magnitude and swiftness of events tend to dwarf the family. But the family who comes together finds sanctuary that nurtures. From man's first tottering steps on earth, the family has created life, sustained it, enriched it. The family is man's refuge and springboard; nourished in it, man can advance to new horizons. The family is the link to the past, the bridge to the future. The Turley family tells stories at conventions and family reunions that raise goose bumps on one's arms of the outright miracles that aided in their search for their roots. The father of this unique family summarized their search - an unequaled emotional experience with a statement made recently. He said, "In view of all we have heard, read, or known, I think it is fair to say our ancestors were enterprising, prudent, amiable, honest, patriotic, conservative, and pious. They were more respected than distinguished, and while few fell to the depths of worthlessness, more rose to the heights of goodness and success. They made life great for us and now it is our turn to help preserve our countries and our homes. We need to make our home one of gratitude, of high morals, of love for fathers and mothers and children, of honor for one's country and one's God." (Saved his family from the Great Flood by building the Ark. YEAR 2348 BC) Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation By John O'Hart The descent of the Irish Celts from Adam 1. Adam 2. Seth 3. Enos 4. Cainan 5. Mahalaleel 6. Jared 7. Enoch 8. Methuselah 9. Lamech 10. Noah divided the world amongst his three sons, begotten of his wife Titea: viz., to Shem he gave Asia, within the Euphrates, to the Indian Ocean; to Ham he gave Syria, Arabia, and Africa; and to Japhet, the rest of Asia beyond the Euphrates, together with Europe to Gadea (or Cadiz). 11. Japhet was the eldest son of Noah. He had fifteen sons, amongst whom he divided Europe and the part of Asia which his father had allotted to him. 12. Magog: From whom descended the Parthians, Bactrians, Amazons, etc.; Parthalon, the first planter of Ireland, about three hundred years after the Flood; and also the rest of the colonies that planted there, viz., the Nemedians, who planted Ireland, Anno Mundi three thousand and forty-six, or three hundred and eighteen years after the birth of Abraham, and two thousand one hundred and fifty-three years before Christ. The Nemedians continued in Ireland for two hundred and seventeen years; within which time a colony of theirs went into the northern parts of Scotland, under the conduct of their leader Briottan Maol, from whom Britain takes its name, and not from "Brutus," as some persons believed. From Magog were also descended the Belgarian, Belgian, Firbolgian or Firvolgian colony that succeeded the Nemedians, Anno Mundi, three thousand two hundred and sixty-six, and who first erected Ireland into a Monarchy. [According to some writers, the Fomorians invaded Ireland next after the Nemedians.] This Belgarian of Firvolgian colony continued in Ireland for thirty-six years, under nine of their Kings; when they were supplanted by the Tuatha-de-Danann (which means, according to some authorities, "the people of the god Dan," whom they adored), who possessed Ireland for one hundred and ninety-seven years, during the reigns of nine of their kings; and who were then conquered by the Gaelic, Milesian, or Scotic Nation (the three names by which the Irish people were known), Anno Mundi three thousand five hundred. This Milesian or Scotic Irish Nation possessed and enjoyed the Kingdom of Ireland for two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five years, under one hundred and eighty-three Monarchs; until their submission to King Henry the Second of England, Anno Domini one thousand one hundred and eighty-six. 13. Boath, one of the sons of Magog; to whom Scythia came as his lot, upon the division of the Earth by Noah amongst his sons, and by Japhet of his part thereof amongst his sons. 14. Phoeniusa Farsaidh (or Fenius Farsa) was King of Scythia, at the time when Ninus ruled the Assyrian Empire; and, being a wise man and desirous to learn the languages that not long before confounded the builders of the Tower of Babel, employed able and learned men to go among the dispersed multitude to learn their several languages; who sometime after returning well skilled in what they went for, Phœniusa Farsaidh erected a school in the valley of Senaar, near the city of Æothena, in the forty-second year of the reign of Ninus; whereupon, having continued there with his younger son Niul for twenty years, he returned home to his kingdom, which, at his death, he left to the oldest son Nenuall; leaving to Niul no other patrimony than his learning and the benefit of the said school. 15. Niul, after his father returned to Scythia, continued some time at œothena, teaching the languages and other laudable sciences, until upon report of his great learning he was invited into Egypt by Pharaoh, the King; who gave him the land of Campus Cyrunt, near the Red Sea to inhabit, and his daughter Scota in marriage; from whom their posterity are ever since called Scots; but, according to some annalists, the name "Scots" is derived from the word Scythia. It was this Niul that employed Gaodhal [Gael], son of Ethor, a learned and skilful man, to compose or rather refine and adorn the language, called Bearla Tobbai, which was common to all Niul's posterity, and afterwards called Gaodhilg (or Gaelic), from the said Gaodhal who composed or refined it; and for his sake also Niul called his own eldest son "Gaodhal." 16. Gaodhal (or Gathelus), the son of Niul, and ancestor of Clan-na-Gael, that is, "the children or descendants of Gaodhal". In his youth this Gaodhal was stung in the neck by a serpent, and was immediately brought to Moses, who, laying his rod upon the wounded place, instantly cured him; whence followed the word "Glas" to be added to his named, as Gaodhal Glas (glas: Irish, green; Lat. glaucus; Gr. glaukos), on account of the green scar which the word signifies, and which, during his life, remained on his neck after the wound was healed. And Gaodhal obtained a further blessing, namely-that no venomous beast can live any time where his posterity should inhabit; which is verified in Creta or Candia, Gothia or Getulia, Ireland, etc. The Irish chroniclers affirm that from this time Gaodhal and his posterity did paint the figures of Beasts, Birds, etc., on their banners and shields, to distinguish their tribes and septs, in imitation of the Israelites; and that a "Thunderbolt" was the cognisance in their chief standard for many generations after this Gaodhal. 17. Asruth, after his father's death, continued in Egypt and governed his colony in peace during his life. 18. Sruth, soon after his father's death, was set upon by the Egyptians, on account of their former animosities towards their predecessors for having taken part with the Israelites against them; which animosities until then lay raked up in the embers, and now broke out in a flame to that degree, that after many battles and conflicts wherein most of his colony lost their live, Sruth was forced with the few remaining to depart the country; and, after many traverses at sea, arrived at the Island of Creta (now called Candia), where he paid his last tribute to nature. 19. Heber Scut (scut: Irish, a Scot), after his father's death and a year's stay in Creta, departed thence, leaving some of his people to inhabit the Island, where some of their posterity likely still remain; "because the Island breeds no venomous serpent ever since." He and his people soon after arrived in Scythia; where his cousins, the posterity of Nenuall (eldest son of Fenius Farsa, above mentioned), refusing to allot a place of habitation form him and his colony, they fought many battles wherein Heber (with the assistance of some of the natives who were ill-affected towards their king), being always victor, he at length forced the sovereignty from the other, and settled himself and his colony in Scythia, who continued there for four generations. (Hence the epithet Scut, "a Scot" or "a Scythian," was applied to this Heber, who was accordingly called Heber Scot.) Heber Scot was afterwards slain in battle by Noemus the former king's son. 20. Baouman; 21 Ogaman; and 22. Tait, were each kings of Scythia, but in constant war with the natives; so that after Tait's death his son, 23. Agnon and his followers betook themselves to sea, wandering and coasting upon the Caspian Sean for several (some say seven) years in which time he died. 24. Lamhfionn and his fleet remained at sea for some time, after his father's death, resting and refreshing themselves upon such islands as they met with. It was then the Cachear, their magician or Druid, foretold that there would be no end of their peregrinations and travel until they should arrive at the Western Island of Europe, now called Ireland, which was the place destined for their future and lasting abode and settlement; and that not they but their posterity after three hundred years should arrive there. After many traverses of fortune at sea, this little fleet with their leader arrived at last and landed at Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia, where Carthage was afterwards built; and, soon after, Lamhfionn died there. 25. Heber Glunfionn was born in Gothia, where he died. His posterity continued there to the eighth generation; and were kings or chief rulers there for one hundred and fifty years-some say three hundred years. 26 Agnan Fionn; 27. Febric Glas; 28. Nenuall; 29. Nuadhad; 30. Alladh; 31. Arcadh; and 32. Deag: of these nothing remarkable is mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia. 33. Brath was born in Gothia. Remembering the Druid's prediction, and his people having considerably multiplied during their abode in Geulia, he departed thence with a numerous fleet to seek out the country destined for their final settlement, by the prophecy of Cachear, the Druid above mentioned; and, after some time, he landed upon the coast of Spain, and by strong hand settled himself and his colony in Galicia, in the north of that country. 34. Breoghan (or Brigus) was king of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal-all of which he conquered. He built Breoghan's Tower or Brigantia in Galicia, and the city of Brigantia or Braganza in Portugal-called after him; and the kingdom of Castile was then also called after him Brigia. It is considered that "Castile" itself was so called from the figure of a castle which Brigus bore for his Arms on his banner. Brigus sent a colony into Britain, who settled in that territory now known as the counties of York, Lancaster, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, and, after him were called Brigantes; whose posterity gave formidable opposition to the Romans, at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain. 35. Bilé; was king of those countries after his father's death; and his son Galamh [galav] or Milesius succeeded him. This Bilé had a brother named Ithe . 36. Milesius, in his youth and in his father's life-time, went into Scythia, where he was kindly received by the king of that country, who gave him his daughter in marriage, and appointed him General of his forces. In this capacity Milesius defeated the king's enemies, gained much fame, and the love of all the king's subjects. His growing greatness and popularity excited against him the jealousy of the king; who, fearing the worst, resolved on privately dispatching Milesius our of the way, for, openly, he dare not attempt it. Admonished of the king's intentions in his regard, Milesius slew him; and thereupon quitted Scythia and retired into Egypt with a fleet of sixty sail. Pharaoh Nectonibus, then king of Egypt, being informed of his arrival and of his great valour, wisdom, and conduct in arms, made him General of all his forces against the king of Ethiopia then invading his country. Here, as in Scythia, Milesius was victorious; he forced the enemy to submit to the conqueror's own terms of peace. By these exploits Milesius found great favour with Pharaoh, who gave him, being then a widower, his daughter Scota in marriage; and kept him eight years afterwards in Egypt. During the sojourn of Milesius in Egypt, he employed the most ingenious and able persons among his people to be instructed in the several trades, arts, and sciences used in Egypt; in order to have them taught to the rest of his people on his return to Spain. [The original name of Milesius of Spain was "Galamh" (gall: Irish, a stranger; amh, a negative affix), which means, no stranger: meaning that he was no stranger in Egypt, where he was called "Milethea Spaine," which was afterwards contracted to "Miló Spaine" (meaning the Spanish Hero), and finally to "Milesiius" (mileadh: Irish, a hero; Lat. miles, a soldier).] At length Milesius took leave of his father-in-law, and steered towards Spain; where he arrived to the great joy and comfort of his people; who were much harassed by the rebellion of the natives and by the intrusion of other foreign nations that forced in after his father's death, and during his own long absence from Spain. With these and those he often met; and, in fifty-four battles, victoriously fought, he routed, destroyed, and totally extirpated them out of the country, which he settled in peace and quietness. In his reign a great dearth and famine occurred in Spain, of twenty-six years' continuance, occasioned, as well by reason of the former troubles which hindered the people from cultivating, and manuring the ground, as for want of rain to moisten the earth - but Milesius superstitiously believed the famine to have fallen upon him and his people as a judgment and punishment from their gods, for their negligence in seeking out the country destined for their final abode, so long before foretold by Cachear their Druid or magician, as already mentioned - the time limited by the prophecy for the accomplishment thereof being now nearly, if not fully, expired. To expiate his fault and to comply with the will of his gods, Milesius, with the general approbation of his people, sent his uncle Ithe, with his son Lughaidh [Luy], and one hundred and fifty stout men to bring them an account of those western islands; who, accordingly, arriving at the island since then called Ireland, and landing in that part of it now called Munster, left his son with fifty of his men to guard the ship, and with the rest travelled about the island. Informed, among other things, that the three sons of Cearmad, called Mac-Cuill, MacCeacht, and MacGreine, did then and for thirty years before rule and govern the island, each for one year, in his turn; and that the country was called after the names of their three queens - Eire, Fodhla, and Banbha, respectively: one year called "Eire," the next "Fodhla," and the next "Banbha," as their husbands reigned in their regular turns; by which names the island is ever since indifferently called, but most commonly "Eire," because that MacCuill, the husband of Eire, ruled and governed the country in his turn the year that the Clan-na-Milé (or the sons of Milesius) arrived in and conquered Ireland. And being further informed that the three brothers were then at their palace at Aileach Neid, in the north part of the country, engaged in the settlement of some disputes concerning their family jewels, Ithe directed his course thither; sending orders to his son to sail about with his ship and the rest of his men, and meet him there. When Ithe arrived where the (Danann) brothers were, be was honourably received and entertained by them; and, finding him to be a mail of great wisdom. and knowledge, they referred their disputes to him for decision. That decision having met their entire satisfaction, Ithe exhorted them to mutual love, peace, and forbearance; adding much in praise of their delightful, pleasant, and fruitful country; and then took his leave, to return to his ship, and go back to Spain. No sooner was he gone than the brothers; began to reflect on the high commendations which Ithe gave of the Island; and, suspecting his design of bringing others to invade it, resolved to prevent them, and therefore pursued him with a strong party, overtook him, fought and routed his men and wounded himself to death (before his son or the rest of his men left on ship-board could come to his rescue) at a place called, from that fight and his name, Magh Ithe or "The plain of Ithe" (an extensive plain in the barony of Raphoe, county Donegal); whence his son, having found him in that condition, brought his dead and mangled body back into Spain, and there exposed it to public view, thereby to excite his friends and relations to avenge his murder. [Note: that all the invaders and planters of Ireland, namely, Parthalonians, Neimhedh, the Firbolgs, Tuatha-de-Danann, and Clan-na-Milé, where originally Scythians, of the line of Japbet, who had the language called Bearla-Tobbai or Gaoidhilg [Gaelic] common amongst them all; and consequently not to be wondered at, that Ithe and the Tuatha-de-Danann understood one another without an Interpreter - both speaking the same language, though perhaps with some difference in the accent]. The exposing of the dead body of Ithe had the desired effect; for, thereupon, Milesius made great preparations in order to invade Ireland - as well to avenge his uncle's death, as also in obedience to the will of his gods, signified by the prophecy of Cachear, aforesaid. But, before he could effect that object, he died, leaving the care, and charge of that expedition upon his eight legitimate sons by his two wives before mentioned. Milesius was a very valiant champion, a great warrior, and fortunate and prosperous in all his undertakings: witness his name of "Milesius," given him from the many battles (some say a thousand, which the word "Milé" signifies in Irish as well as in Latin) which he victoriously fought and won, as well in Spain, as in all the other countries and kingdoms be traversed in his younger days. The eight brothers were neither forgetful nor negligent in the execution of their father's command; but, soon after his death, with a numerous fleet well manned and equipped, set forth from Breoghan's Tower or Brigantia (now Corunna) in Galicia, in Spain, and sailed prosperously to the coasts of Ireland or lnis-Fail, where they met many difficulties and various chances before they could land: occasioned by the diabolical arts, sorceries, and enchantments used by the Tuatha-de-Danann, to obstruct their landing; for, by their magic art, they enchanted the island so as to appear to the Milesians or Clan-na-Milé in the form of a Hog, and no way to come at it (whence the island, among the many other names it had before, was called "Muc-Inis or "The Hog Island"); and withal raised so great a storm, that the Milesian fleet was thereby totally dispersed and many of them cast away, wherein five of the eight brothers, sons of Milesius, lost their lives. That part of the fleet commanded by Heber, Heremon, and Amergin (the three surviving, brothers), and Heber Donn, son of Ir (one of the brothers lost in the storm), overcame all opposition, landed safe, fought and routed the three Tuatha-de Danann Kings at Slieve-Mis, and thence pursued and overtook them at Tailten, where another bloody battle was fought; wherein the three (Tuatha-de-Danann) Kings and their Queens were slain, and their army utterly routed and destroyed: so that they could never after give any opposition to the Clan-na-Milé in their new conquest; who, having thus sufficiently avenged the death of their great uncle Ithe, gained the possession of the country foretold them by Cachear, some ages past, as already mentioned. Heber and Heremon, the chief leading men remaining of the eight brothers, sons of Milesius aforesaid, divided the kingdom between them (allotting a proportion of land to their brother Amergin, who was their Arch-priest, Druid, or magician; and to their nephew Heber Donn, and to the rest of their chief commanders), and became jointly the first of one hundred and eighty-three Kings or sole Monarchs of the Gaelic, Milesian, or Scottish Race, that ruled and governed Ireland, successively, for two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five years from the first year of their reign), Anno Mundi three thousand five hundred, to their submission to the Crown of England in the person of King Henry the Second; who, being also of the Milesian Race by Maude, his mother, was lineally descended from Fergus Mór MacEarca, first King of Scotland, who was descended from the said Heremon - so that the succession may be truly said to continue in the Milesian Blood from before Christ one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine years down to the present time. Heber and Heremon reigned jointly one year only, when, upon a difference between their ambitious wives, they quarrelled and fought a battle at Ardeath or Geshill (Geashill, near Tullamore in the King's County), where Heber was slain by Heremon; and, soon after, Amergin, who claimed an equal share in the government, was, in another battle fought between them, likewise slain by Heremon. Thus, Heremon became sole Monarch, and made a new division of the land amongst his comrades and friends, viz.: the south part, now called Munster, he gave to his brother Heber's four sons, Er, Orba, Feron, and Fergna; the north part, now Ulster, he gave to Ir's only son Heber Donn; the east part or Coigeadh, Galian, now called Leinster, be gave to Criomthann-sciath-bheil, one of his commanders; and the west part, now called Connaught, Heremon gave to Un-Mac-Oigge, another of his commanders; allotting a part of Munster to Lughaidh (the son of Ithe, the first Milesian discoverer of Ireland), amongst his brother Heber's sons. From these three brothers, Heber, Ir, and Heremon (Amergin dying without issue), are descended all the Milesian Irish of Ireland and Scotland, viz.: from Heber, the eldest brother, the provincial Kings of Munster (of whom thirty-eight were sole Monarchs of Ireland), and most of the nobility and gentry of Munster, and many noble families in Scotland, are descended. From Ir, the second brother, all the provincial Kings of Ulster (of whom twenty-six were sole Monarchs of Ireland), and all the ancient nobility and gentry of Ulster, and many noble families in Leinster, Munster, and Connaught, derive their pedigrees; and, in Scotland, the Clan-na-Rory - the descendants of an eminent man, named Ruadhri or Roderick, who was Monarch of Ireland for seventy years (viz., from Before Christ 288 to 218). From Heremon, the youngest of the three brothers, were descended one hundred and fourteen sole Monarchs of Ireland: the provincial Kings and Hermonian nobility and gentry of Leinster, Connaught, Meath, Orgiall, Tirowen, Tirconnell, and Clan-na-boy; the Kings of Dalriada; all the Kings of Scotland from Fergus Mór MacEarea, down to the Stuarts; and the Kings and Queens of England from Henry the Second down to tile present time. The issue of Ithe is not accounted among the Milesian Irish or Clan-na-Milé, as not being descended from Milesius, but from his uncle Ithe; of whose posterity there were also some Monarchs of Ireland (see Roll of the Irish Monarchs, infra), and many provincial or half provincial Kings of Munster: that country upon its first division being allocated to the sons of Heber and to Lughaidh, son of Ithe, whose posterity continued there accordingly. This invasion, conquest, or plantation of Ireland by the Milesian or Scottish Nation took place in the Year of the World three thousand Ova hundred, or the next year after Solomon began the foundation of the Temple of Jerusalem, and one thousand six hundred and ninety-nine years before the Nativity of our Saviour Jesus Christ; which, according to the Irish computation of Time, occurred Anno Mundi five thousand one hundred and ninety-nine: therein agreeing with the Septuagint, Roman Martyrologies, Eusebius, Orosius, and other ancient authors; which computation the ancient Irish chroniclers exactly observed in their Books of the Reigns of the Monarchs of Ireland, and other Antiquities of that Kingdom ; out of which the Roll of the Monarchs of Ireland, from the beginning of the Milesian Monarchy to their submission to King Henry the Second of England, a Prince of their own Blood, is exactly collected. [As the Milesian invasion of Ireland took place the next year after the laying of the foundation of the Temple of Jerusalem by Solomon, King of Israel, we may infer that Solomon was contemporary with Milesius of Spain; and that the Pharaoh King of Egypt, who (1 Kings iii. 1,) gave his daughter in marriage to Solomon, was the Pharaoh who conferred on Milesius of Spain the hand of another daughter Scota.] Milesius of Spain bore three Lions in his shield and standard, for the following reasons; namely, that, in his travels in his younger days into foreign countries, passing through Africa, he, by his cunning and valour, killed in one morning three Lions; and that, in memory of so noble and valiant an exploit, he always after bore three Lions on his shield, which his two surviving sons Heber and Heremon, and his grandson Heber Donn, son of Ir, after their conquest of Ireland, divided amongst them, as well as they did the country: each of them. bearing a Lion in his shield and banner, but of different colours; which the Chiefs of their posterity continue to this day: some with additions and differences; others plain and entire as they had it from their ancestors. The Celts of Ireland descend from three sons of Milesius, (37-1 Heremon , 37-2 Heber and 37-3 Ir ) and from his uncle (35-1 Ithe ) True Irish history begins with the introduction of Christianity and Latin literacy, beginning in the 5th century or slightly before. When compared to neighbouring Insular societies, early Christian Ireland is extremely well documented, but these sources are not easy to interpret. Many questions remain unanswered and the study of early Christian Ireland continues to produce new theories and new discoveries. Since the later 19th century, when scholars such as Kuno Meyer and Whitley Stokes applied an increasingly rigorous approach to the study of written sources, a great deal of new information has been extracted from the written material. New fields, such as paleobotany , have contributed to the debate, while the volume of archaeological evidence has increased. Ecclesiastical history The first reliable historical event in Irish history, recorded in the Chronicle of Prosper of Aquitaine , is the ordination by Pope Celestine I of Palladius as the first bishop to Irish Christians in 431. Prosper says in his Contra Collatorem that by this act Celestine "made the barbarian island Christian", although it is clear the Christianisation of the island was a longer and more gradual process. The mission of Saint Patrick is traditionally dated around the same time - the earliest date for his arrival in Ireland in the Irish annals is 432 - although Patrick's own writings contain nothing securely dateable.[1] It is likely that Palladius' activities were in the south of Ireland, perhaps associated with Cashel , while Patrick's were later, in the north, and associated with Armagh . By the early 6th century the church had developed separate dioceses, with bishops as the most senior ecclesiastical figures, but the country was still predominantly pagan. The monastic movement, headed by abbots, took hold in the mid 6th century, and by 700 Ireland was at least nominally a Christian country, with the church fully part of Irish society. The status of ecclesiastics was regulated by secular law, and many leading ecclesiastics came from aristocratic Irish families. Monasteries in the 8th century even went to war with each other.[2] From the 7th century on, Irish churchmen such as Columbanus and Columba were active in Gaul , in Scotland and in Anglo-Saxon England . The mixing of Irish, Pictish and Anglo-Saxon styles created the Insular style of art, represented by the Lindisfarne Gospels and the Book of Kells . Ireland's reputation for scholarship was such that many scholars travelled from Britain and the European mainland to study in Irish schools. The Irish people (Irish : Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European ethnic group who originate in Ireland , in north western Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years (according to archaeological studies), with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded[7] as the Nemedians , Fomorians , Fir Bolgs , Tuatha Dé Danann and the Milesians (in legend - there is no written historical record before the 6th century)-the last group supposedly representing the "pure" Gaelic ancestry, and still serving as a term for the Irish race today. The main groups that interacted with the Irish in the Middle Ages include the Scottish people and the Vikings , with the Icelanders especially having some Irish descent. The Anglo-Norman invasion of the High Middle Ages, the English plantations and the subsequent English rule of the country introduced the Normans , Welsh , Flemish , Anglo-Saxons , and Bretons into Ireland. Milesians are a people figuring in Irish mythology . The descendants of Míl Espáine , they were the final inhabitants of Ireland , and were believed to represent the Goidelic (or Gaelic ) Celts . Myth The Lebor Gabála (Book of Invasions - probably first written in the second half of the 11th century AD) describes the origin of the Gaelic people. They descended from Goídel Glas , a Scythian who was present at the fall of the Tower of Babel , and Scota , a daughter of a pharaoh of Egypt . Two branches of their descendants left Egypt and Scythia at the time of the Exodus of Moses , and after a period of wandering the shores of the Mediterranean arrived in the Iberian Peninsula , where they settled after several battles. One of them, Breogán , built a tower at a place called Brigantia (probably in the coast of Galicia , near A Coruña (Corunna), which was then "Brigantia" and where a Celtic tribe called "Brigantes" is attested in ancient times - see Tower of Hercules ) from the top of which he, or his son Íth, first saw Ireland.[1] [2] Íth made the first expedition to Ireland, but was killed by the three kings of Ireland, Mac Cuill , Mac Cecht , and Mac Gréine of the Tuatha Dé Danann . In revenge the eight sons of Íth's brother Míl Espáine (the "Soldier of Hispania ", whose given name was Golam), led an invasion force to defeat the Tuatha Dé and conquer Ireland. The sons of Míl landed in County Kerry and fought their way to Tara . On the way, the wives of the three kings, Ériu , Banba and Fodla requested that the island be named after them: Ériu is the earlier form of the modern name Éire , and Banba and Fodla were often used as poetic names for Ireland, much as Albion is for Britain . At Tara the sons of Míl met the three kings, and it was decreed that the invaders return to their ships and sail a distance of nine waves from Ireland, and if they were able to land again, Ireland would be theirs. They set sail, but the Tuatha Dé used magic to brew up a storm, in which five of the sons were drowned, leaving only Eber Finn , Eremon and Amergin the poet, to land and take the island. Amergin divided the kingship between Éremon , who ruled the northern half, and Éber Finn , the southern.[3] Legacy In the historical scheme proposed by T. F. O'Rahilly the descent of the kings of Ireland from the sons of Míl is a fiction intended to provide legitimacy for the Goidels, who invaded Ireland in the 1st or 2nd century BC, giving them the same ancient origin as the indigenous peoples they dominated. However, it has been argued[4] that the story is a much later invention of medieval Irish historians, inspired by their knowledge of the Seven Books of History Against the Pagans, written by the early 5th century Gallaecian cleric, Paulus Orosius . See also Early history of Ireland . For centuries, the myth of the Míl Éspaine and the Milesians was used in Ireland to win and secure dynastic and political legitimacy. For example, in his Two bokes of the histories of Ireland (1571), Edmund Campion tried to use the myth to establish an ancient right of the British monarch to rule Ireland. In A View of the Present State of Ireland, Edmund Spenser accepted and rejected various parts of the myth both to denigrate the Irish of his day and to justify English colonisation of Ireland in the 1590s (at the height of the Anglo-Spanish war ).[5] Probably the last major outing for the myth was during the Contention of the bards , which appears to have rumbled on from 1616 to 1624. During this period poets from the north and south of the island extolled the merits of their respective peoples (Eremonians and Eberians), at the expense of the other side, and often descended to a pettiness that some contemporaries thought foolish. Finally, Geoffrey Keating 's Foras Feasa ar Eirinn (written c.1634) used the myth to promote the legitimacy of the Stuart claim to royal authority in Ireland (related to the origin of the Lia Fáil ), demonstrating that Charles I was descended, through Brian Ború, Éber and Galamh, from Noah and, ultimately, from Adam.[6] The lion-rampant motif seen in the Royal Standard of Scotland was used by other clans claiming a Milesian ancestry. There is a legend that Queen Scota 's grave is in the Slieve Mish mountains just outside Tralee in County Kerry. The legend tells that Scota was the daughter of a pharaoh and was to marry the Irish king, but she fell from her horse and died. A large rock marks the spot where she fell. Footnotes 1. , Mary Jones, http://www.maryjones.us/ctexts/lebor1.html#14 2. , UCC 3. Lebor Gabála Érenn , Mary Jones, 4. John Carey, "Did the Irish Come from Spain? The Legend of the Milesians", History Ireland (Autumn 2001) pp. 8-11. 5. Andrew Hadfield, "Briton and Scythian: Tudor representations of Irish origins", Irish Historical Studies 28 (1993) pp. 390-395. 6. Bernadette Cunningham, The World of Geoffrey Keating: history, myth and religion in 17th century Ireland (Dublin 2000). Irish mythology - the legendary descent of the Irish Clans The Lebor Gabala Erren The Book of the Taking of Ireland Book of Leinster 1150 A.D. Variant Readings from other Sources Variant Irish Readings - Lebor Gabala Erren The Scottichronicon - John of Fordun Historiam Britonum - Nennius Chronicle of the Picts & Scots - author unknown The Life of St. Cadroe - Colgan According to the traditions of the Lebor Gabala Erren (Book of the Taking of Ireland), the Irish originated in Scythia and were descendants of a King Feinius Farsaid, a King of Scythia. This Feinius Farsaid and his son, Nel, went into Asia to work on the Tower of Nimrod (Tower of Babel in biblical history) and were present at the subsequent dispersal of the races after the destruction of the tower. Feinius and his son, both learned in the new languages which resulted from the dispersal, returned to Scythia where Feinius opened a great school of languages on the Scythian plain. In time his son Nel became such an expert in languages that pharoah of Egypt invited him into his country to teach his people the new languages of the world. So Nel went to Egypt and there he married Scota, pharoa's daughter. After pharoa was drowned in the Red Sea in pursuit of Moses and his band of Hebrews, Nel's great-grandson, Sru, fled from Egypt for fear of persecution by the Egyptians and with his son, Heber Scot, returned to Scythia. There Heber Scot won the kingship of Scythia. After a few generations, a descendant of Heber Scot, named Agnomain, killed a rival for the kingship of Scythia (a kingsman) and in revenge was driven from the country. With a small band of followers, Agnomain obtained ships and sailed to the Macotic Marshes on the Black Sea, where the Scots (as they had come to be known, from Scota, the wife of Nel) remained for nearly three hundred years. On this journey they received a prophecy from Caicher, their druid, that their descendants would one day reach Ireland. Finally a descendant named Brath led the Scots from the marshes. Again they took to ships and after a long, arduous sea voyage across the Mediterranean Sea, eventually landed on the coast of Spain. On a high mountain on the coast Brath's son, Breogain, built a city named Brigantia famed for its tall tower. Some years later, Ith, the uncle of King Milesius, saw Ireland from the top of the tower on a cold winter's night. Ith collected a small fleet and sailed to the island he had glimpsed from the tower in Brigantia. Landing in the north of the island, he immediately encountered the chieftains of the Tuatha de Danann, who were in control of Ireland at the time, having conquered the Fir Bolg, its previous rulers. A battle was fought between them and Ith was slain on the plain of Ith (Magh Ith). His men carried his body back to their ships and the fleet returned to Ireland. King Milesius was outraged at the death of his uncle and sent his sons, nine in number, to Ireland with a great fleet to avenge his death. On landing in Ireland the sons of King Milesius went inland and there met the kings of the Tuatha de Danann, demananding of them either kingship or battle. The kings of the Tuatha de Danann stalled for time, asking for a week alone on the island before making a decision. To this the sons of King Milesius agreed. They then returned to their ships and sailed a short distance off the coast of Ireland. The treacherous Tuatha de Danann then raised a great druidical storm against the Milesian fleet, which drove them far to the west. They circled the island three times until the storm blew itself out, finally landing in the south of the island. Here they divided their fleet and men, Heber, the oldest son still living (most of the sons of Milesius had been killed in the landing or the storm), remained in the south of Ireland. Heremon, his brother, and the rest of the fleet sailed to the north, where they landed their ships. Coming inland the sons of King Milesius again joined their forces and engaged the Tuatha de Danann in battle, completely routing them and slaying all their leaders. All of the sons of King Milesius were slain in the conquest of Ireland except for Heber and Heremon. Heber Finn, the son of Ir, survived, as did Lugaidh, the son of Ith. From the three sons of King Milesius to have issue, namely Heber, Ir and Heremon, and from Ith, King Milesius' uncle, are said to descend the great clans and families of Ireland, known as "Milesians," in honor of their great ancestor, King Milesius of Spain. After conquering the island Heber and Heremon divided Ireland between them. To Heremon went the northern half of the island and there his descendants are mainly to be found to this day, including the northern and southern Ui Neill, King of Meath and Ulster, the Ulaid, the Dal Riada (who later founded the kingdom of (Scotland) and the Kings of Leinster. From Heber are said to descend the tribes and kings of the south of Ireland. Heremon gave a part of his kingdom to Heber Finn, the son of his slain brother, Ir, and from him are said to descend the Knights of the Red Branch in Ulster, Clanna Rory. From Ith, King MIlesius' uncle, are said to descend some of the tribes living in the province of Connacht. Sumber: 1. National Library of Indonesia "Tapel Adam" Bat Cedotschap Jar.Udos. B.G.v.K.e.W. 393. Kanjeng Nabi Adam to Kingdoms of Indonesia. 2. A Family Tree: From Adam to Jesus by C. Hemmelman, Jerusalem Distributor: The Three Arches Co Ltd. P. O. Box 214, Bethlehem, Israel. Sources: Old Testament, Books of Tobit, Judith, Maccabees, The New Testament. In addition,partial genealogies of Josephus Flavius (Joseph ben Matthias) and of Herord the Great have been added for their inherent interest. 3. Bible: Ordained at 10 by Methuselah (D&C 107:52). Genesis 5:28-32; Moses 8:8-30; 1 Chronicles 1:4; Luke 3:36. 4. A guide to Irish Roots by William and Mary Durning. SOURCES:THE KINSHIP OF FAMILIES chart by the late Archibald Bennett for the Genealogical Society of Utah A GUIDE TO IRISH ROOTS by Durning (Newspaper Article in Bandung, Indonesia. The David and Alice Turley established a National Genealogical Center in Jakarta.) NOAH IS OUR GREAT GRANDFATHER Few families have plumbed deeper into the wellsprings of genealogy (family history) than the David and Alice Turley family. After over four decades of research and months of drawing lines and 162,000 names, dates and places, plus millions of bytes of sources, notes, and stories, typed in the computer, they say, they say come join us! Along with being the parents of six children, in-laws-and grandchildren plus great-grandchildren, the Turleys have completed a four by twenty-five foot pedigree chart on artist's canvas of their roots that includes six ancestral lines traced to their original parents, Adam and Eve, our first parents. They have been honored as one of six "Great American Families" by the President of the United States because of their contribution to families and communities of the world. Much of David's ancestral research has been done over many years by family organizations - large, well-organized family groups, and a great deal of traveling around the world. With Alice it has been quite a different story. Until 1975, her family had been unable to track down her great grandfather. Two short lines in an old Catholic Bible was all the information they had. Perseverance finally paid off and Mrs. Turley pieced together her roots back to immigrant ancestors in the 1700 century. In between were countless letters, many summer trips to courthouses, graveyards, and libraries around the world. Much of Alice's research was done in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, at the Mormon (Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) Church Family History Library. This library is the world's largest collection of Genealogical data and includes billions of names, dates, sources etc. The Turleys have both searched for and found their roots. And guess what? "Their roots are your roots. We all stem from a common ancestor - our Great-Grandfather, Noah continuing further back to Adam and Eve, our first parents. Ours is a shared ancestry. We shouldn't think back and say, 'My ancestry, mine, mine, mine.' We should say, 'ours, ours, ours.' The further back we reach, the greater the chorus swells. We are all brothers and sisters," stated Alice, the Genealogist. Alice explained her interest this way, "I am the biological blend of two different people, the combining of my parents into one flesh. I have adopted the characteristics of my parents - their speech, mannerisms, gestures, laughs, attitudes, and so on. This is one of the reasons genealogy intrigues me. I sometimes wonder how much of my ancestry I still carry in me; how far back into my genealogical roots I could tract my own mannerisms, physical attributes, and character traits. How fascinating it would be to have a detailed written and visual account of each of my ancestors with which to better understand myself." Fortunately, such records are available now and are concluded here at its best. From the records that are available, the Turleys found two grandfathers who fought against each in the American Civil War; an eighty-year-old barefoot and almost-blind great grandfather whose name appeared differently in three different census records; Another cousin was President George Washington 1776; a grandfather who froze to death after crossing the Platte River in 1856 on their way West; a grandmother from Ireland who smuggled her nephew in a barrel on the emigrant boat to save passage; also five of the Signers of the Magna Charta, including King John. Another relative from France died on the "throne" (and not a royal throne!). A Viking ancestor who conquered Normandy over 1000 years ago and started the English royal line through his descendant, William the Conqueror. Finally Anna, the cousin of Mary, the Mother of Jesus. Alice further stated, "Ironically, some of our best genealogical information is that concerning our earliest parentage. Sometimes we forget when reading the early portion of the Bible that we are reading our own family history and that we share a very special relationship with those individuals. Few of us would think of claiming Iraq as an ancestral homeland, yet that is where our Great-etc.-grandfather, the Prophet Abraham, was born and reared to early maturity. Syria remains a foreign country in the minds of us, yet our grandmothers, Rebecca and Rachel, were born there, as was our grandfather, Jacob and his twelve sons. Through our roots, we are citizens of the world, and whatever happens in the world affects our distant cousins. David elaborated, "As we contemplate our ancestry and what they have endured that we might be here - as we sense their faith and courage and feel their love for us and our love for them, we begin to comprehend the eternal nature of the family." At a recent conference on genealogy, Alice suggested, "What a blessing it would be to our children and grandchildren to give them a detailed personal history - our account of our days and their ancestors. By writing personal and family histories, we are helping our children immeasurably in gaining a true perspective of life. Writing our histories with the proper blend of fact and feeling gives us and them a deep insight into the meaning and purpose of our lives." When a picture is printed of a family with wrinkled old arms enfolded around little children bursting with vigor and vitality, there is a record of family that is as unique as a fingerprint. Nowhere in the world is there a family exactly like the one who stares out from the photograph. This is a powerful anchor, especially in these days when the sheer magnitude and swiftness of events tend to dwarf the family. But the family who comes together finds sanctuary that nurtures. From man's first tottering steps on earth, the family has created life, sustained it, enriched it. The family is man's refuge and springboard; nourished in it, man can advance to new horizons. The family is the link to the past, the bridge to the future. The Turley family tells stories at conventions and family reunions that raise goose bumps on one's arms of the outright miracles that aided in their search for their roots. The father of this unique family summarized their search - an unequaled emotional experience with a statement made recently. He said, "In view of all we have heard, read, or known, I think it is fair to say our ancestors were enterprising, prudent, amiable, honest, patriotic, conservative, and pious. They were more respected than distinguished, and while few fell to the depths of worthlessness, more rose to the heights of goodness and success. They made life great for us and now it is our turn to help preserve our countries and our homes. We need to make our home one of gratitude, of high morals, of love for fathers and mothers and children, of honor for one's country and one's God." (Saved his family from the Great Flood by building the Ark. YEAR 2348 BC) Irish Pedigrees or the Origin and Stem of the Irish Nation By John O'Hart The descent of the Irish Celts from Adam 1. Adam 2. Seth 3. Enos 4. Cainan 5. Mahalaleel 6. Jared 7. Enoch 8. Methuselah 9. Lamech 10. Noah divided the world amongst his three sons, begotten of his wife Titea: viz., to Shem he gave Asia, within the Euphrates, to the Indian Ocean; to Ham he gave Syria, Arabia, and Africa; and to Japhet, the rest of Asia beyond the Euphrates, together with Europe to Gadea (or Cadiz). 11. Japhet was the eldest son of Noah. He had fifteen sons, amongst whom he divided Europe and the part of Asia which his father had allotted to him. 12. Magog: From whom descended the Parthians, Bactrians, Amazons, etc.; Parthalon, the first planter of Ireland, about three hundred years after the Flood; and also the rest of the colonies that planted there, viz., the Nemedians, who planted Ireland, Anno Mundi three thousand and forty-six, or three hundred and eighteen years after the birth of Abraham, and two thousand one hundred and fifty-three years before Christ. The Nemedians continued in Ireland for two hundred and seventeen years; within which time a colony of theirs went into the northern parts of Scotland, under the conduct of their leader Briottan Maol, from whom Britain takes its name, and not from "Brutus," as some persons believed. From Magog were also descended the Belgarian, Belgian, Firbolgian or Firvolgian colony that succeeded the Nemedians, Anno Mundi, three thousand two hundred and sixty-six, and who first erected Ireland into a Monarchy. [According to some writers, the Fomorians invaded Ireland next after the Nemedians.] This Belgarian of Firvolgian colony continued in Ireland for thirty-six years, under nine of their Kings; when they were supplanted by the Tuatha-de-Danann (which means, according to some authorities, "the people of the god Dan," whom they adored), who possessed Ireland for one hundred and ninety-seven years, during the reigns of nine of their kings; and who were then conquered by the Gaelic, Milesian, or Scotic Nation (the three names by which the Irish people were known), Anno Mundi three thousand five hundred. This Milesian or Scotic Irish Nation possessed and enjoyed the Kingdom of Ireland for two thousand eight hundred and eighty-five years, under one hundred and eighty-three Monarchs; until their submission to King Henry the Second of England, Anno Domini one thousand one hundred and eighty-six. 13. Boath, one of the sons of Magog; to whom Scythia came as his lot, upon the division of the Earth by Noah amongst his sons, and by Japhet of his part thereof amongst his sons. 14. Phoeniusa Farsaidh (or Fenius Farsa) was King of Scythia, at the time when Ninus ruled the Assyrian Empire; and, being a wise man and desirous to learn the languages that not long before confounded the builders of the Tower of Babel, employed able and learned men to go among the dispersed multitude to learn their several languages; who sometime after returning well skilled in what they went for, Phœniusa Farsaidh erected a school in the valley of Senaar, near the city of Æothena, in the forty-second year of the reign of Ninus; whereupon, having continued there with his younger son Niul for twenty years, he returned home to his kingdom, which, at his death, he left to the oldest son Nenuall; leaving to Niul no other patrimony than his learning and the benefit of the said school. 15. Niul, after his father returned to Scythia, continued some time at œothena, teaching the languages and other laudable sciences, until upon report of his great learning he was invited into Egypt by Pharaoh, the King; who gave him the land of Campus Cyrunt, near the Red Sea to inhabit, and his daughter Scota in marriage; from whom their posterity are ever since called Scots; but, according to some annalists, the name "Scots" is derived from the word Scythia. It was this Niul that employed Gaodhal [Gael], son of Ethor, a learned and skilful man, to compose or rather refine and adorn the language, called Bearla Tobbai, which was common to all Niul's posterity, and afterwards called Gaodhilg (or Gaelic), from the said Gaodhal who composed or refined it; and for his sake also Niul called his own eldest son "Gaodhal." 16. Gaodhal (or Gathelus), the son of Niul, and ancestor of Clan-na-Gael, that is, "the children or descendants of Gaodhal". In his youth this Gaodhal was stung in the neck by a serpent, and was immediately brought to Moses, who, laying his rod upon the wounded place, instantly cured him; whence followed the word "Glas" to be added to his named, as Gaodhal Glas (glas: Irish, green; Lat. glaucus; Gr. glaukos), on account of the green scar which the word signifies, and which, during his life, remained on his neck after the wound was healed. And Gaodhal obtained a further blessing, namely-that no venomous beast can live any time where his posterity should inhabit; which is verified in Creta or Candia, Gothia or Getulia, Ireland, etc. The Irish chroniclers affirm that from this time Gaodhal and his posterity did paint the figures of Beasts, Birds, etc., on their banners and shields, to distinguish their tribes and septs, in imitation of the Israelites; and that a "Thunderbolt" was the cognisance in their chief standard for many generations after this Gaodhal. 17. Asruth, after his father's death, continued in Egypt and governed his colony in peace during his life. 18. Sruth, soon after his father's death, was set upon by the Egyptians, on account of their former animosities towards their predecessors for having taken part with the Israelites against them; which animosities until then lay raked up in the embers, and now broke out in a flame to that degree, that after many battles and conflicts wherein most of his colony lost their live, Sruth was forced with the few remaining to depart the country; and, after many traverses at sea, arrived at the Island of Creta (now called Candia), where he paid his last tribute to nature. 19. Heber Scut (scut: Irish, a Scot), after his father's death and a year's stay in Creta, departed thence, leaving some of his people to inhabit the Island, where some of their posterity likely still remain; "because the Island breeds no venomous serpent ever since." He and his people soon after arrived in Scythia; where his cousins, the posterity of Nenuall (eldest son of Fenius Farsa, above mentioned), refusing to allot a place of habitation form him and his colony, they fought many battles wherein Heber (with the assistance of some of the natives who were ill-affected towards their king), being always victor, he at length forced the sovereignty from the other, and settled himself and his colony in Scythia, who continued there for four generations. (Hence the epithet Scut, "a Scot" or "a Scythian," was applied to this Heber, who was accordingly called Heber Scot.) Heber Scot was afterwards slain in battle by Noemus the former king's son. 20. Baouman; 21. Ogaman; and 22. Tait, were each kings of Scythia, but in constant war with the natives; so that after Tait's death his son, 23. Agnon and his followers betook themselves to sea, wandering and coasting upon the Caspian Sean for several (some say seven) years in which time he died. 24. Lamhfionn and his fleet remained at sea for some time, after his father's death, resting and refreshing themselves upon such islands as they met with. It was then the Cachear, their magician or Druid, foretold that there would be no end of their peregrinations and travel until they should arrive at the Western Island of Europe, now called Ireland, which was the place destined for their future and lasting abode and settlement; and that not they but their posterity after three hundred years should arrive there. After many traverses of fortune at sea, this little fleet with their leader arrived at last and landed at Gothia or Geulia-more recently called Lybia, where Carthage was afterwards built; and, soon after, Lamhfionn died there. 25. Heber Glunfionn was born in Gothia, where he died. His posterity continued there to the eighth generation; and were kings or chief rulers there for one hundred and fifty years-some say three hundred years. 26. Agnan Fionn; 27. Febric Glas; 28. Nenuall; 29. Nuadhad; 30. Alladh; 31. Arcadh; and 32. Deag: of these nothing remarkable is mentioned, but that they lived and died kings in Gothia or Getulia. 33. Brath was born in Gothia. Remembering the Druid's prediction, and his people having considerably multiplied during their abode in Geulia, he departed thence with a numerous fleet to seek out the country destined for their final settlement, by the prophecy of Cachear, the Druid above mentioned; and, after some time, he landed upon the coast of Spain, and by strong hand settled himself and his colony in Galicia, in the north of that country. 34. Breoghan (or Brigus) was king of Galicia, Andalusia, Murcia, Castile, and Portugal-all of which he conquered. He built Breoghan's Tower or Brigantia in Galicia, and the city of Brigantia or Braganza in Portugal-called after him; and the kingdom of Castile was then also called after him Brigia. It is considered that "Castile" itself was so called from the figure of a castle which Brigus bore for his Arms on his banner. Brigus sent a colony into Britain, who settled in that territory now known as the counties of York, Lancaster, Durham, Westmoreland, and Cumberland, and, after him were called Brigantes; whose posterity gave formidable opposition to the Romans, at the time of the Roman invasion of Britain. 35. Bilé; was king of those countries after his father's death; and his son Galamh [galav] or Milesius succeeded him. This Bilé had a brother named Ithe . [This note is duplicated by two different writters, varying very little. The following is recorded as #36 shown below in the next few pages beginning as First Generation* FROM THE LEGENDARY HISTORY OF IRELAND/SCOTLAND cnoelidunc@dviresearch.com Carol Noell Duncanson POBox 72152 Marietta, GA 30007 68 Generations of Descendants of Milesius of Sprain, King of Braganza - Father of the Irish Race / The High Kings of Ireland.] 36. Milesius, in his youth and in his father's life-time, went into Scythia, where he was kindly received by the king of that country, who gave him his daughter in marriage, and appointed him General of his forces. In this capacity Milesius defeated the king's enemies, gained much fame, and the love of all the king's subjects. His growing greatness and popularity excited against him the jealousy of the king; who, fearing the worst, resolved on privately dispatching Milesius our of the way, for, openly, he dare not attempt it. Admonished of the king's intentions in his regard, Milesius slew hi