This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dunn Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/DYC.2ACE/733 Message Board Post: My grgrgrgrandfather,John Dunn,was b.in Virginia abt 1780.He married in SC and from there travelled to Tenn,and finally into Ky. I've now found an elderly lady,who says she always heard that John Dunn came over from Ireland when his brother died. she said that there was a fire in their house("probably drinking!" she said.and the brother died in the fire.I know that our John was b.in Va,so it could be that she's talking about his father,with the same name.She says they were from Northern Ireland.This is the only story that anyone has remembered about this family. This is truly a needle in the haystack.