More on Ballykilcline and Clynes - Ballykilcline means "townlands of the Clines". The town has become associated with the mass eviction of tenants in 1847, during the Potato Famine (the Crown paid their passage to America), but the name goes much farther back, probably to the clearances and plantations of the 1600's, when Protestant Scots from the lowlands were imported into Ireland by the British. The name Clyne is Scottish; after generations in Ireland, the Scots-Irish were also forced off the land and began immigrat- ing to America, beginning in 1717 and continuing up until the Revolutionary War. So there are both German and Scots-Irish Clines, and probably Dutch ones, too. How to tell the difference? If the Scots-Irish stuck to traditional first names, they used Alexander, James, Robert, and William a lot; the Germans seldom did, preferring David, Jacob, Isaac, and other Biblical names. John, Joseph, and George were used by both, and there were always exceptions, especially as time went on and the two nationalities intermarried. But if you can get enough early first names from the same family, you may be able to guess which they were.