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My great-great grandfather was a James McKinnell of Kirkinner in Wigtonshire Scotland. He was born, I am guessing in the 1790s, married to a Janet Hawthorne, and died in Scotland in about 1862.
His son, my great-grandfather, was Peter McKinnell, who was born in about 1826, married a Jessie McDowell of Newton Stewart parish, and emigrated to the United States in 1855, settling near Elgin, Illinois, west of Wisconsin. Among his children was a son, my grandfather, James Charles McKinnell. My grandfather had a son, James Charles McKinnell II. I am my father's firstborn son James McKinnell III, and I have a son James Charles McKinnell IV. But he is the end of this dynasty, because none of my children has a child names James Charles.
Another son of great-great grandpa James, James McKinnell, emigrated to Australia, and I am in touch with one of his descendents in Tasmania, a Catherine Curran (her email address is fridge_mag@hotmail.com). I do not have at hand the name of his wife, but I assume that he also would have been born in the 1820's.
As you can see this family really likes the name James.
I know I haven't been much help to you, but I appreciate your inquiry. James McKinnell
Midlothian, Virginia
September 24, 2001
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