I just picked up on this McKenzie/Kinney/McKinney discussion. Good to catch one on the list. If anyone studys northern Ireland Kinney (and variant) info in particular, feel free to keep me and my email address in mind if you don't post it on the list. :) While I dont have time to read every digest of this list in detail, I do searches once in a while on the archives.. so I'll catch it sooner or later. Mark Kinney > Dear Walt, > > Here is what Camac has to say about the McKinneys of Derrykeighan in his > book (Pub. 1911?) on the history of that Parish. Derrykeighan is a rural > parish in North Antrim and is about 5 miles (8Km) north east of Ballymoney > town. I have searched for the McKinney gravestone at Derrykeighan cemetery > without success. > > Norman > > "It is worthy of note that neither a M'Kinney or Chestnut now own an acre > of land in Carnaff. The last of the M'Kinneys to hold a farm here was > Samuel, who died in 1882, a man of a superior education, but of indolent > habits, and a most accurate land surveyor. The tradition among the M'Kinneys > is that several brothers came from Inverness early in the seventeenth > century. Two settled in the Derrykeighan district, one at Feigh, > Dunseverick, and one at Sheeans, Armoy. The name has still been variously > pronounced or spelled M'Kinney, M'Elhinney, M'Kenzie, and Kinney. There is > an armorial stone in Ballintoy belonging to the Dunseverick family, whilst a > plot of ground at the west wall of Derrykeighan churchyard is the family > sepulchre of many M'Kinneys, about whose kinship there can be no doubt. The > oldest date on any stone belonging to this family here is 1742." >