Re: McKinney Tyrone NI - 1700s NY; Y-DNA
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In reply to:
McKinneys in Northern Ireland
3/28/00
We must get together to compare notes! Especially you (again), Michael McKinney.
Arthur was born around 1713ish Tyrone. He was in what was then Ulster Co, NY, now Orange County, sometime after 1731 but by 1745 when he married and bought land.
Here is my dynamic online tree at ancestry.com as I've been able to reconstruct it. If you've seen it before check again as I fine-tune this as info is found.
http://tinyurl.com/49cyehttp://tinyurl.com/49cye
When I was about age 8-9, grandmother told me just where in Tyrone Arthur was from but it was a multi-syllabic mouthfull ending with something familiar like -gate or -yard, I don't know now. She saw my visible consternation and told me to remember Tyrone - and that's just what I've done. DRAT!
Someone else wanted to know why ancestors left NI. I can tell you historically it would have been out of 1) hunger and 2) taxation: no future there.
There is another McKinney appeared in CT right about the same mid-1700s time and named sons similarly as did Arthur's sons. I've seen this on an ancestry.com online tree, but the owner has never returned correspondence. At any rate, being that ships were smaller, CT leads me to think-maybe Mystic harbor rather than some of the larger ports.
Also worth mentioning, although it probably should be a 2nd post, there is a Y-DNA project for McKinney. That requires a particpant who is 1) male, 2) surnamed McKinney, 3) not known to have been adopted-surname &c. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! Any and all of ya! It's easy. Help!