Recent content by belstonkelly

Its not too far from Galloway to Tweeddale so that's entirely possible. Here in Ayrshire we have a local landed family the Hunter Blair and there is the Nuclear Power Station located at Hunterston where I think there was a Hunterston Castle at one time. Hunters ton being of course the settlement...

Apologies, predictive text should have read Lavery and Lowry not Liverpool and Lower!!

Hi, thanks for responding, yes I am your Big Y match. I find the list of our matches surnames fascinating being mainly native to either here in Ayrshire and Galloway (Ferguson, Hunter, Gillespie, Hannah) or associated with County Down (McGuinness, Liverpool, Lower, McConville). There has been so...

I M223 Ulster Lineage Hello, I am also new to this forum but also share the I M223 (Y4751) Haplogroup. My surname is Kelly and earliest known Kelly ancestors origin was I believe, County Down. From analysis of autosomal matches I believe probably south County Down or County Louth. The name...