This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Richard Paul Kinnison Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/jEC.2ACI/52.566 Message Board Post: The last name Kinnison is from a WELSH origin and started from people who lived in Kinferstown . It evolved to Kinstown Kinnistown and finally kinnison . My father was Richard William Kinnison born in Cody WY in 1937. R.P. Kinnison Springfield/Eugene OR 11-15-01