Hello Diane Some leads in answer to your message of 26 August ..... "Hello Listers, I am looking for help regarding the Kelso family from Ireland and possibly earlier from Scotland. There has been a Harloe-Kelso Genealogy in print since 1943, so I have family information from 1800 forward. I would like to learn more about the family's origins. Diane" (1) Forgive me for asking an obvious ...... Have you looked at the Kelso Genealogical Resource page? See website http://joe_kelso.tripod.com/ (2) In his book "Presbyterians and the Irish Language" (published by the Ulster Historical Foundation), Roger Blaney writes at page 9: "In the year 1661 there were seventy Presbyterian ministers in Ulster and there were signs that the Church now felt confident enough to make some evangelistic approaches through the Irish language. The main participants were O'Quinn, Cornwall, and probably Wallace. However, many other names were mentioned in relation to preaching in places such as Tipperary, Connaught, and elsewhere in the south and west. The individual ministers mentioned included Archibald Hamilton, Samuel Hallyday, William Henry, Robert Kelso, Duncan Campbell, John Hamilton, William Hampton. They were missionaries in Irish-speaking areas and it can be safely assumed that they too spoke Irish." The conclusion is that Rev Robert Kelso, a Presbyterian minister, was already in Ulster in 1661. (3) I have a copy will, from Wills-Online at the PRO London, to one "Robert Mitchell formerly of the first Battalion of Royal Scots now an out Pensioner of Chelsea Hospital at present residing in Bishop street in the suburbs of the city of Londonderry", will proved 26 September 1822, in which Robert Mitchell named "Mr Joseph Kelso of Londonderry to be [one of] my true executors". I suspect this Joseph Kelso was a merchant and shipowner in Londonderry -- you will find mention of him for example at Website http://www.immigrantships.net/v2/1800v2/prudence18320720.html for the ship "Prudence" that sailed from Londonderry, Ireland, to the Port of Philadelphia on 20 July 1832 "Report or Manifest of all the Passengers taken on board the Prudence whereof William Coppin is Master, from Londonderry burthen ____ Tons and owned by Joseph Kelso of Londonderry and bound to Philadelphia." (ISTG Vol 2 - Ship Prudence) Kind regards Dave Mitchell Cape Town South Africa UGHG No. 202