Any advice on where to search records on line to get a WILL co py as described in an old Ulster book? REF: MARY widow of JOHN BROWN of Coleraine and Patrick Jordan. The Plaintiffs claimed QUOTE 'that Shane Roe O'Mullan had bought the townland of Altduff from John Brown, and had made a will date 6th MAY 1682, dividing ALTDUFF equally between his five children. Pamela Brown Courtney sister of Charles Keith Brown and descendent of Valentine Brown, Jr 1805 who married Mary Ross. Our DNA leads us back to McKain (O'Kane). wondered how I could find the descendents of this Irish-Scot John Brown and who they were blood related to the American Browns. Pamela Life is too short for drama & petty things; so kiss slowly,laugh insanely, Love truly and forgive quickly > From: jumbobrown@optusnet.com.au > To: brown@rootsweb.com > Date: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 22:46:56 +1000 > Subject: [BROWN] AMERICAN BROWN'S FROM SCOTLAND > > Hi American Browns > > I joined this Brown forum many years ago now and have read entries with interest over the years on how Brown's have faired in America. > > It is a bit disappointing though, for me at any rate, who is not an American Brown, on how few postings there are on where the American Brown families originated. In other words the U.K. which in most cases I would imagine would cover where the majority of American Browns came from. Do you American Brown's use a different forum than this one for those enquiries? > > Is there a lack of recorded information for the general run of American Brown's on where their first ancestor who landed on American shores came from? The country in the U.K., the Shire, the town, village or farm? > > In my own case, I live in Australia, my father was a Scot and on the paper trail for my Brown's in Ayrshire, Scotland I am back to 1510, courtesy of great Scottish record keeping. > > As far as DNA is concerned I have very close Y-DNA matches with two American Brown's but they have no idea of where their ancestors came from as they only go back to the 1800's on the paper trail. > > I have an extensive database of my Brown's from the parishes of Sorn and Galston in East Ayrshire Scotland that may be of interest for American Brown's who hailed from this area of Scotland. But I would enjoy seeing some postings from American Brown's searching their deeper roots in the U.K.. Surely there are some Scottish Brown's over there? Come on let's hear from you! > > Cheers > > Ken Brown > OZ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BROWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Keep your life in sync. http://windowslive.com/explore?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_BR_life_in_synch_052009