>From www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/ Dunkin: Very rare: Dublin. Ir. Ó Duinnchinn (brown head). A name associated with N Connacht > > http://www.billmacafee.com/1630musterrolls/1630musterrollsderry.pdf > 1630 Muster Rolls for Estates in Co. Londonderry [D1759/3/C/2 or MIC637/10] > [Sorted by Surname and Estate] > Record > No. > Surname [Standardised] Surname as spelt in > Muster Rolls > Forename Estate (Chief Tenant) Barony Surname > listed in > 1622 > Dunbar William City & Liberties of Londonderry N. W. Liberties of > Londonderry > 57 Duncan Dunkan Archibald City & Liberties of Londonderry N. W. Liberties > of Londonderry > 175 Duncan Dunkin James City & Liberties of Londonderry N. W. Liberties of > Londonderry > 1742 Duncan Dunkin Wm Thomas Phillips, Limavady Keenaght > 1748 Duncan Dunkan Alexander Thomas Phillips, Limavady Keenagh > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Bernard, Some time ago, I reported on my descent from Melkorka, the daughter of an Irish king, Muirchertach MacNeill (Myrkjarten), who was kidnapped at 15 and sold to an Icelander, Hoskuldur Dalakollsson. I would appreciate your help or the help of anyone interested in 10th century Irish archives in resolving issues that are raised in my pedigree. My grandfather¹s sister and their father, Jon Sigurdson, born in Iceland in 1850 and educated there, put the pedigree together in the 1920s using information readily available to Icelanders at that time. My sources are this pedigree, the Laxdaela Saga and the Icelandic Book of Settlements (Landnamabok), which would have been readily available to Icelandic speakers in the 1920s. The Landnamabok was first compiled between 1097 and 1125 by the priest Ari (the learned) Thorgillson and Kolskegg the wise and later versions of it are extant in manuscript form. A current edition of Landnamabok states: ³When Ari and Kolskegg set to work, only 6 to 7 generations of settlers had lived in Iceland, so it was not too difficult to gather information even about the earliest period of Icelandic history. In many cases the direct descendants of the original settlers were still living on the farms where their ancestors had made their first homes in Iceland. What seems to emerge from this is that the genealogies of people after the Settlement seem to be trustworthy². The Landsnamabok, unlike the Laxdaela Saga, was not conceived as a work of literature, but, because ³we think we can better meet the criticism of foreigners (probably about Vikings) when they accuse us of being descended from slaves or scoundrels, if we know for certain the truth about our ancestry.² So here is my earliest Icelandic/Irish pedigree: K = King; HK = High King Áed Finnliath (HK) Flann Sinna (HK) 1.Kveldulfur Hersir Niall Glúndub (HK) m Gormlaith Flann's daughter 2.Skallagrimur Kveldulfurson Myrkjarten (Muirchertach MacNeill, K of Ailech) 3.Egil Skallagrimson Melkorka, concubine of Hoskuldur Dalakollson 4.Thorgerdur Egilsdottir------wife of---Olafur Hoskuldurson 5.Thorbjorg Olafursdottir m Asgeir Knattarson 6.Kristjan Asgeirson 7.Thorvaldur Kristjanson 8.Thordur Thorvaldson 9.Snorri Thordarson died 1193 Egil Skallagrimson was born about 900 AD; Olaf Hoskuldon was born about 938 when Melkorka would have been between about 16 and 18, so she was born around 920; Myrkjarten is reported in Wikipedia to have died in battle in 943. So - my questions are: is the Wikipedia entry about Muirchertach macNeill and his forbears and descendants accurate? What more is available in irish archives about him? Is there any reference to his children and especially about his daughters? When I presented this earlier, someone asked about Icelandic pronunciation and about whether Myrkjarten might be MacCartin. I think the pronunciation in Icelandic actually speaks more about how the Irish pronounced Muirchertach; Muir= Myr; chert=kjart; ach=an (a very soft pronunciation of ach). Another interesting point is the number of enslaved Irish and Scottish people who were brought to Iceland at this time. Surely some of these people were M222+, just as Melkorka would likely have been if she were male. They would have contributed to the Icelandic gene pool. What do we know about M222+ people in Iceland? David

I'm sorry that the pedigree I sent was garbled in transit. Here it is in a better form. Irish pedigree: 1.Áed Finnliath, High King Flann Sinna, High King 2.Niall Glúndub, Aed's son, High King, married Gormlaith, Flann Sinna's daughter 3.Muirchertach MacNeill (Myrkjarten), son of Niall and Gormlaith, King of Ailech 4.MELKORKA,DAUGHTER of MYRKJARTEN, concubine of Hoskuldur Dalakollson, MOTHER OF OLAFUR HOSKULDSON Icelandic pedigree 1 1.Kveldulfur Hersir 2.Skallagrimur Kveldulfurson 3.Egil Skallagrimson 4.Thorgerdur Egilsdottir, wife of OLAFUR HOSKULDSON who was the son of MELKORKA 5.Thorbjorg Olafursdottir m Asgeir Knattarson 6.Kristjan Asgeirson 7.Thorvaldur Kristjanson 8.Thordur Thorvaldson 9.Snorri Thordarson died 1193 David