I found another family claiming a descent from one of the Irishmen who accompanied the O Cathain bride to Scotland: McQueen. I know I've seen at least a few McQueens who are M222. When I first started researching the McSweeneys I saw surname experts who claimed McQueen was a variant of Mac Suibhne. I doubt that has any validity in this context but who knows? Clergymen and Chiefs: A Genealogy of the MacQueen and MacFarlane Families By Alexander McQueen Quattlebaum The MacQueens are said to have come to Scotland from Ireland as part of the dowry of Margaret O'Cathain (Tochradh nighean a'Chathaqnaich) that was given to Angus Og. As part of the dowry it was the custom for the bride to be accompanied by some of the retainers of the father's territory. Conn Buidhe O'Cathain sent with his daughter 140 families from his extensive territories. There still exist other families in the Isles and on the mainland of the west of Scotland, as well as the MacQueens, who trace their origins to this source. Here are the original references from the History of the McDonalds and the Black Book of Clanranald written by the McDonald seanachies. Back Book of Clanrandald Angus Og, son of Angus Mor, son of Donald, son of Ranald, son of Somerled, the noble and renowned high chief of Innsigall. He married the daughter of Cuinnbhuighe O'Cathan. She was the mother of John, son of Angus, and it is with her came the unusual retinue from Irelande, viz., four-and-twenty sons of clan families, from whom sprang four-and-twenty families in Scotland. History of the MacDonalds Hugh MacDonald - Highland Papers 17th Century "He married Margaret, daughter of Guy O'Kaine in Ireland. She was the mother of Brian Balloch O'Neill, of whom descended the O'Neals of both the Clan Buys. The portion or tocher he had by her was seven score men out of every surname under O'Kain, viz.: the Munroes, so called, because they came from the Innermost Roe-water in the county of Derry, their names being formerly O'Millans, the Roses of Killraack, the Fairns, Dingwalls, Glasses, Beatons, so now called, but improperly, that being a French name, whereas they are Irish, of the tribe of O'Neals, and took the name first from following the name of Beda. Our highland shenakies say that Balfour Blebo, and these Beatons that came from France, went formerly from Ireland, but for this they have no grounds to go upon. The Macphersons, who are not the same with the Macphersons of Badenoch, but are of the O'Docharties in Ireland; the Butikes in Butikes in Caithness, of whom is the Laird of Tolingail, and many other surnames, which, for brevity, we pass over, many of whom had no succession." In my opinion this legend is so well documented in the highlands and so many repeated claims are made that men in Scotland in the retinue became entrenched in Scotland that it probably is true. What names are really connected to the migration though is open to question. This migration would have occurred sometime during the lifetime of Angus Age McDonald.ca. 1300. Judging from the DNA of the Dohertys and McLaughlins their DNA should still be recognizable today. Both had common ancestors going back to about that date. John