This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: dorris Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lNT.2ACEB/259.1 Message Board Post: Debbi; The immigrant Dorris was Josef Dorris from County Down Ireland he came with 9 sons. William Dorris was one of the sons. Wm was born 1715 County Downs Ireland and died 1795 Orange County North Carolina; he married Mary Roarke in 1736 in County Down Ireland. Mary Died and Wm remarried Mary Williams. Wm with his first wife had 6 children (5 boys and one daughter); with his second wife he had 6 children (3 boys and 3 daughters. I am a descendant of his son John (from his first marriage) who married Mary Priestly. I don't have the names of the other children of Josef, but I do have all of the family from Wm forward. Let me know if there is anything else I can tell you. Carol