Greetings: Is there anyone willing to do some lookups from the books by David Dobson on the Scots-Irish around the period 1725-1825. Apparently he wrote three to five books on the Scot-Irish, with at least three dealing with this period of time. I am looking for information on the Kennedy surname in County Down, especially the area in and near the town of Killyleagh or the Barony of Dufferin and the whole area known as East Down. What area of Scotland did these Kennedys originally come from? Did these Kennedys belong to any particular branch of the Scottish Kennedys? Are any of them mentioned as coming from Glasgow? Are there any family trees or genealogies available that tie these County Down Kennedy's with Scottish Kennedy's? Are any of these books online? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Mike Kennedy Dayton Ohio

Mike The Kennedy's held land from Ayr Town, Ayrshire down to almost Stranraer in Wigtonshire. There were a number of Cadet Branches of them. For Ayrshire there are two writers that have done quite a bit of publishing of family trees. - George Robertson in the 1820's and - James Paterson, in the 1860/s Many of the Kennedy siblings help high office in Scotland like Chancellor, Biship, etc >From the area that you are talking about, your Kennedy's could have been part of the 1607 migration under Mr Montgomery and Mr Hamilton. So you will need to work your way back through your own family in County Down and then look at Robertson and Paterson. I would ask the Local Studies Library at Ardrossan Library what information they may have for Kennedy's that came from XYZ part of Ayrshire. Mike Boyd Brisbane ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Kennedy" <kennedmr@siscom.net> To: "nir-down" <nir-down-l@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 5:16 AM Subject: [NIR-DOWN] lookup request -David Dobson books > Greetings: > > Is there anyone willing to do some lookups from the books by David Dobson > on the Scots-Irish around the period 1725-1825. > Apparently he wrote three to five books on the Scot-Irish, with at least > three dealing with this period of time. > I am looking for information on the Kennedy surname in County Down, > especially the area in and near the town of Killyleagh or the Barony of > Dufferin and the whole area known as East Down. > What area of Scotland did these Kennedys originally come from? > Did these Kennedys belong to any particular branch of the Scottish > Kennedys? > Are any of them mentioned as coming from Glasgow? > Are there any family trees or genealogies available that tie these County > Down Kennedy's with Scottish Kennedy's? > Are any of these books online? > > > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks > > Mike Kennedy > Dayton Ohio > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NIR-DOWN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message