Leay Genealogy From:lindsay@discover.wright.edu> My mother's maiden name is Lay (a spelling variation of Leay), and your line's migration pattern to North America is very similar to our family oral history. I am hopeful that you can provide some general information on the migration of Leays from Scotland to Ireland to North America. According to my late grandfather, his surname was an anglicized and simplified version of the name, and his ancestors came to North America from Ireland. One of his cousins also believes ("has heard") his family was of "Scotch Irish" descent. I am familiar with the Scottish surname MacLeay (and its various spelling variations), and have tracked my mother's line from Alabama back to the late 18th century in East Tennessee, but there it disappears into what was then a frontier, with low literacy and little-to-no official record keeping. Lay/Leay/MacLeay/MacLay, etc, entries - I would greatly appreciate any insight you can provide into the general issue of Leay immigrants from Northern Ireland to North America. Any info I can share related to the origins of Leays in Scotland (mainly the entry in Black's "Surnames of Scotland" is at your disposal, as well. Thanks Lee Fuell Please post connections per this surname (or variant) first per Subject line format: LEAY, _____ -1800s- IRELAND > USA or generally per Subject: LEAY, firstname & key YEAR & LOCATION/country < fill in actual data mailto:LEE-L@rootsweb.com ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ spell address exactly this way!!! with explicit detail in body of message, please - thanks CHANGE a Subject line to reply per above format if prior post failed :) P.S. Please always try to place the SURNAME of that SURNAME group or the variant spelling of that SURNAME so that it is always the FIRST WORD in the SUBJECT line of any post (country the last) Thanks For this posting the first word of Subject line should be LEAY If posting URLs please excerpt on topic data with proper credits :) Sources needed, please - can you help? Thanks for your cooperation. Cheers! please read detail in Welcome message or ask Harold. Special topics: genetics, books, places mailto:sundance@neosoft.com