Roy: I, too, am researching the McKee family in County Down. I don't have too much to go on right now. My great-great grandfather, Nathaniel McKee, was born in 1786. He emigrated to the US in 1812. There were two Nathaniel McKees who were leaseholders in Ballybrian in the late 1700's to early 1800's. I think they might have been his father and grandfather. I would be interested in any information you turn up about the early records of the McKee family. -- Audry Rini