This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kelly, Kelley Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/CYm.2ACIB/1830.1885 Message Board Post: In Scotland they were Kelleys. The British powers in Northern Ireland spelled both the Irish Kelly and the Scots-Irish Kelley as Kelly. As soon as my John Kelley left Bangor, Co. Down and got to the US he made sure that all of his records were spelled Kelley. In the Census in the 1900s his daughter said that her parents were born in Ireland and their language was Scots. I also have Irish Catholic Kellys in Canada.