Hi William, Both my parents have BEATTIE lines. If you check the early records of the Ulster Plantation that are in Hanna "Scotch-Irish", you will see that in the Irish plantation of Cavan, Precint of Tullaghgarvy, allocated to 'natives' -- ie Irish, 262 acres went to Henry Betagh, gentleman. The surname of Beatty is, according to some, Irish in origin. Some believe it is occupational from the Irish meaning public vitualler. It is still found in Athlone in its Irish form. Others believe it orginated in Meath. Most likely, since the Scots also spoke Erse, it originated in any number of places like other occupational surnames. So some Beatties in Ireland are Irish natives. The descendents of Henry (above) lost their land in the Cromwellian or Williamite settlement (I forget). They may well have stayed on, nearby, say, in Monaghan. Donno..... One of my lines is Scottish -- never left, and the other left Ayre, served in the Irish army in the mid 1600s, was an officer in King WIlliam's army, received a land grant in Antrim, it is believed, and definitely took to the ocean in 1729. The second wife of John was the sister of the grandfather of Dewitt Clinton. One of John's children by Christina Clinton was the future Rev Charles Clinton Beatty, the first missionary west of the Alleghenies. Uncle Charlie attended the coronation of King George in Engerland (his Clintons were English gentry who once held the earldom of Lancaster) and died in Barbados, converting the locals. I believe there is a Border clan DNA study (google) that may be the fastest way to determine the origin of your Beatties. Nonetheless as a double Beattie, I will welcome you to the clan if you will help round up the Maxwells who took our land. I need to get my dad's DNA tested. We have an occupational surname. Donno who we really 'are'!!! We lost our clan!!! We have no identity.... Probably we'll do the border DNA project as we're from Weardale, Co Durham. Linda Merle ________________________________________________________________ Sent via the WebMail system at mail.fea.net