Hello to all. Thank you for welcoming "jim", [email protected] to the ButeshireGenWeb group. I am the remaining grandson to Thomas McCloy of Claggan, Londonderry who emigrated to Australia with his bride of day, Sarah Jane Millar, in 1884. Thomas eventually settled in Hornsby, Sydney, NSW and raised a family of three boys and five girls - he also had a brother John and sister xxx who followed and settled in NSW. I am the only son of Rowland Henry, married to Margaret Hilda Swales of Sydenham, London and we have four children spread over Oz - Rowena, NSW, Mackay, Queensland and two in Dowerin, WA - as you might guess, we travel a lot! (We also have six grandchildren) I am 74, retired, an ex design engineer and am back on line having rebuilt, I hope, my last computer, all of 15 Gb and 566Mhz - where are we going with our mad technology? My genealogy interests received a considerable boost when a remaining cousin suddenly became deceased several years back and the younger generation said that I had better commit "all" I knew before going the same way - nice types, relations! At present with the help of near Millar relations in Aghadowey, Derry, we have the family reasonably covered back to birth dates around the 1790's. My interest in the group stems from the possibility of firming up details of the McCloy name which is claimed to have originated from the corruption of Lewis, from Lewis Fullerton, who was granted lands in Arran for so called services to the Stewarts/Stuarts - I believe that the McCloys supported the cause and when everything went wrong, they fled to NI, and then emigrated nearly without exception to USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the odd one to South Africa. Obviously it is a bit of a deep subject and as I hold research (?) done by an aunt back in the 20's relating to Arran versus it's Roman name "Clota". I do hope everyone will bear with me in my diggings. As I use Pegasus mail which is not helpful with things like Email alias's, I can also be reached at [email protected] Regards to all, Roland James (Jim) McCloy PS We also have a family cat called Misty!