This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/DQC.2ACI/242.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: All I know about John Mckinney (Mckenne) is that he was with the British Navy and was Irish. This is secondary information from one of the Yarmouth County History books. Mckinney is an Irish name. He took a land grant of 666 acres at Chegoggin, Yarmouth County in 1786, the same year he married Rebecca. His last will and testament was dated 1811 and began with something like "I John Mckenne, being of sound mind and weak body", which suggests he was near death at that point. I have not found any record of him after that. Rebecca died between 1800 and 1806. I say this because youngest daughter Clarisa was born in 1800 and in Andrew Lovitt's will (1806) he mentions his late daughter Rebecca. As far as I know the name never changed to Mckinnon in Yarmouth County. It became Mckenna for his descendants. His son John moved to Port Medway, Queen's County and married Elizabeth Cohoon at Liverpool in 1815. This John used Mckinney and Mckenne on documents. It was his 9 children who chan! ged their names to Mckinnon and Mckenna. For what reason I don't know. All we have to go on are documents and headstones. Perhaps the persons who wrote on these media decided how to spell the names. The oldest son Rev John at times used the name Mckinnon (on deeds) but his headstone in Shelburne County is inscribed as Mckenne. He was probably the only one who retained this name. Bob Mckinnon.