I am researching the family of Robert and Margaret McConnell (nee Nichol) who lived in the Ballymoney area of County Antrim, Ireland, in the 1830s-1850s. They had at least one son Robert and daughter and my greatgrandfather, William, born in 1845. The rural area they lived in was Ballynagg-Ballyrashane-Seacon - towards County Londonderry. William went to sea in 1860 and apparently had relatives in Scotland. Margaret McConnell was still alive in 1872 when William married Rebecca Scott, in Glasgow, where they lived. William ws a merchant seaman. He and Rebecca came to New Zealand in 1875, after the birth of my grandfather, Robert, in 1874. I have extracted many McConnell details from parish registers around Ballymoney and will put them on this site later in the year. The Clan McDonald notes are interesting as the one piece of information my father passed on was that the family's name was not always spelt McConnell. Robin McConnell m wrote: I think that the DNA groups are going to be very helpful.? But there are going to be such families as ours that only have female McConnell's left.? My aunt who is 77 years old agreed to the DNA testing,? she was a granddaughter to the McConnell who was born in Glasgow in 1862.? I've contacted each and every match that comes to my e-mail and so far no close matches.? I like reading from the McConnell rootsweb.com.? I'm in Kansas and know that my Sarah McConnell must of left a family somewhere before she came to Kansas.? I'll just keep searching like everybody else.? Jean -----Original Message----- From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com To: MCCONNELL-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 1:59 pm Subject: Re: [McConnell] McConnell - Ireland - This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: ksaxe Surnames: McConnell Classification: queries Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.mcconnell/2505.1.1/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Hi Jean, Thank you for your kind reply. The same Robert C. McConnell who has wondered whether his line traces to immigrants from Dumfriesshire has also considered the possibility that his line traces to Donegal. He has been in touch with a researcher of a line from Donegal which has many of the same given names as his own McConnell family. It would be very interesting to get DNA results for a member of that family to compare with those of Robert and others in the Clan Donald project. Warm regards, Kirsten Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MCCONNELL ********* Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry MCCONNELL Message Board are gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. ************ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MCCONNELL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/MCCONNELL ********* Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry MCCONNELL Message Board are gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may not be a list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board. ************ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MCCONNELL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --------------------------------- Rise to the challenge for Sport Relief with Yahoo! for Good

Robin, it's wonderful that you will be sharing information from the parish registers. For some McConnell researchers, that information may be enough for them to make a breakthrough. It may also be helpful to other McConnell researchers who might suspect a relationship to a family in those records, but might need DNA results to help them break through their brick wall. It would be neat if somebody from your McConnell line could also be tested, if none have been tested already. Your e-mail address suggests that you are from New Zealand. If that is so, you might find it quite economical to pay for a test with New Zealand dollars, which have done well against the US dollar for a few years now. It's good to point out that your surname may have been spelled differently in the past. The Clan Donald Project results tables show that related men often have different variants of the surname. The last time I noticed one of those, it was for an R. C. McConnell in the R1b Yellow subgroup of the project (not to be confused with Robert C. McConnell in the R1a Red subgroup or Robert's match R. C. McConnell in that R1a Red subgroup) and a Connell who participated in the Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation study. I hope that more men who were tested outside FTDNA will join the project, so that they and their matches have a better chance of finding each other and collaborating. Kirsten On Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:38:06 +0000 (GMT), Robin McConnell wrote > I am researching the family of Robert and Margaret McConnell (nee > Nichol) who lived in the Ballymoney area of County Antrim, Ireland, > in the 1830s-1850s. They had at least one son Robert and daughter > and my greatgrandfather, William, born in 1845. The rural area they > lived in was Ballynagg-Ballyrashane-Seacon - towards County > Londonderry. William went to sea in 1860 and apparently had > relatives in Scotland. Margaret McConnell was still alive in 1872 > when William married Rebecca Scott, in Glasgow, where they lived. > William ws a merchant seaman. He and Rebecca came to New Zealand in > 1875, after the birth of my grandfather, Robert, in 1874. I have > extracted many McConnell details from parish registers around > Ballymoney and will put them on this site later in the year. The > Clan McDonald notes are interesting as the one piece of information > my father passed on was that the family's name was not always spelt McConnell. > Robin McConnell > > m wrote: > I think that the DNA groups are going to be very helpful.? But > there are going to be such families as ours that only have female > McConnell's left.? My aunt who is 77 years old agreed to the DNA > testing,? she was a granddaughter to the McConnell who was born in > Glasgow in 1862.? I've contacted each and every match that comes to > my e-mail and so far no close matches.? I like reading from the > McConnell rootsweb.com.? I'm in Kansas and know that my Sarah > McConnell must of left a family somewhere before she came to > Kansas.? I'll just keep searching like everybody else.? Jean > > -----Original Message----- > From: gc-gateway@rootsweb.com > To: MCCONNELL-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 1:59 pm > Subject: Re: [McConnell] McConnell - Ireland - > > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: ksaxe > Surnames: McConnell > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.mcconnell/2505.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > Hi Jean, > > Thank you for your kind reply. The same Robert C. McConnell who has > wondered whether his line traces to immigrants from Dumfriesshire > has also considered the possibility that his line traces to Donegal. > He has been in touch with a researcher of a line from Donegal which > has many of the same given names as his own McConnell family. 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